This contribution deals with the definition of adult basic education and its entanglement with interests and power relations in the field of public education administration of the German Laender. As the New Literacy Studies view literacy as a social practice that is related to interests and power relations, guided interviews concerning the definition of adult basic education as well as legitimising rationales from the perspective of education administration were illustrated. The interviews are …
The European arena of lifelong learning offers rich country-specific portfolios of historical trajectories, policy frameworks and practical evidence of adult and continuing education. This book provides an introduction to the case of France and outlines the key features of the French system alongside issues such as political and legal agendas, schemes of participation, provision and financing or trends in professionalization, research areas and transnational linkages. Through the lens of adult …
This book gives an overview of central aspects of Adult Education and Training in Cyprus in an attempt to sketch out the country’s profile in the field. Based on empirical findings from a current research project, Maria Gravani and Alexandra Ioannidou present a range of data and information regarding the historical development of Adult and Continuing Eeducation in the island, the adult education and training institutions, financing, provision, participation, staff and professionalism, quality a…
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projekts „EdAge – Bildungsverhalten und -interessen Älterer“ sind das Weiterbildungsverhalten und die Weiterbildungsinteressen der 45- bis 80-Jährigen in einem integrierten Forschungsansatz erhoben worden, der quantitativ-repräsentative und qualitativ-explorative Untersuchungsbausteine verbindet. Damit konnten zahlreiche bislang ungeklärte Fragen beantwortet werden: • Wie stark partizipieren Ältere an Weiterbildung und welche Variablen prägen ihr Bildungsverhalten? • Was …
Reshaping the Relationship between Natural Sciences and Society – The implicite Learning in Contemporary Society How much does an average citizen need to know in the field of natural sciences in order to cope with the challenges of contemporary society? This question is being asked from various points of view. We will reconstruct current debates related to this question along three different lines: on the European level, within academia, and by means of a concrete case study. By relating the…
Carola Iller geht in Ihrer Habilitationsschrift der Frage nach, ob und wie Individuen auf den Alternsprozess im Verlauf ihrer Erwerbs- und Bildungsbiographie einwirken können. Sowohl Betriebe als auch Beschäftigte richten bisher die Laufbahngestaltung nicht im Hinblick auf Alternsprozesse aus. Komplementär zu entsprechenden konzeptionellen Vorschlägen für betriebliche Organisations- und Arbeitsgestaltung wurde in dieser Untersuchung der Fokus auf individuelle Handlungsmöglichkeiten gelegt – woh…
„... das macht mich stolz“ heißt einer der Filme auf der DVD zu diesem Buch. Dort sprechen Mitarbeiter/innen von Weiterbildungeinrichtungen über ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Aufbau von Neuen Lehr- und Lernkulturen. Für die Beteiligten war es entscheidend zu erkennen, welchen Support es erfordert, damit aus der lehrenden eine lernende Organisation wird: interne Organisationsentwicklung, Personalentwicklung und externe Organisationsberatung. Ein integriertes Konzept wirkungsvollen Zusammenspiels alle…
Critical adult education Adult education in the horizon of contemporary societal criticism The essay contacts basic lines of the early critical theory in order to connect it with power analytical surveys on neoliberal restructuring of education. Foucaults analytics of power serves as a guide to decipher the current self-organisation discourse in adult education as part of a power-knowledge-complex. Thereby the present reform strategies manifest themselves as gouvernemental arrangements for …
