Im 18. Jahrhundert waren die Debating Clubs weit verbreitet und es durfte, unabhängig vom Geschlecht, jeder, der wollte, teilnehmen. Die meisten Mitglieder gehörten jedoch der neu entstandenen Mittelschicht an. Ein berühmter Vorläufer der Debating-Clubs war der Rota Club in London. Diese Clubs hatten einen maßgeblichen Anteil an dem Aufkommen der Aufklärung.
Bernhard Christian Faust und Johann August Unzer griffen auf, auf Unterhaltung ausgerichtete, literarische Gattungen zurück, um Wissen zu vermitteln. Die nachfolgenden Quellen zeigen Textauszüge aus ihren Arbeiten.
Presentation Fourth Technical Meeting for PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ), Bonn, 20-21 June 2005
The author presents first-hand and personal accounts of what popular education looks like in a classroom. Barbara Bee has had over 30 years teaching experience in adult education programs with poor and disadvantaged learners. She is regarded as one of the leading Australian practitioners in that time who drew inspiration from Paulo Freire. She describes how teaching in the 1970s and 1980s was so different to today. Back then teachers were encouraged to negotiate the curriculum with students. Bu…
Literacy as specified in the recent PIAAC survey (OECD 2013) is separated into competence levels. This allows a comparison of adults performing on literacy Level I and below versus those performing on Level IV and above. The PIAAC survey also contains variables on participation in adult education. Core findings confirm the Matthew effect for participation rates, but not for training hours.
Abstract: The paper describes trends of convergence and divergence in enterprise-provided continuing vocational training in Europe between 1999 and 2005. Based on the survey CVTS, the indicators for courses incidence, access, intensity, direct costs and the indicator learning at the workplace will be analyzed. The paper concludes with an outlook with references to sketches of an educational theory to be written for this field of adult education.
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
