Dieser kurze Textauszug aus Franklins Autobiographie beschreibt rückblickend Inhalte, Methoden, Regeln und Auswirkungen des von ihm 1726 gegründeten Diskussionsclubs „Junto“. Parallelen zu diesem Ansatz lassen sich in späteren Konzepten wie dem selbstgesteuerten Lernen und den Study Circles wieder finden.
Receptive or hostile to continuing education? Course tutors caught between the pressure to conform and resistance This article presents the results of a qualitative dissertation. The author has investigated the acceptance of adult education teacher training courses among part-time and freelance teachers based on the example of the initial adult education teacher training qualification offered by the North Rhine Westphalia VHS (adult education centre) regional association. For the issue of a…
Referred back to oneself. Reflexive modernisation and new learning requirements This article probes the relationship between our risk society, reflexive modernity and individual learning. First, social conditions are illuminated (with reference to Beck, Giddens and Lash) which force people to endure uncertainty (Mitscherlich and Marotzki) and gain critical ego strength. Next the author focuses attention on the reality of contemporary ways of dealing with demands, turning to findings from nar…
Diversity management is a popular management approach. It promises to allow diversity in organisations and thus to appreciate people for what they are. It undertakes to recognise different points of view, ideas, abilities and potentials; not to standardise cultural variety but to reinforce it. For adult education, this concept seems highly promising. After all, one claim of educational management is to promote personality development and personal progress in a business context. However, critica…
Continuing education and justice The question as to the connection between education and justice has always been important, even before education was established as a functioning sub-system of society. This applies in a similar manner to the sub-field of “continuing education”. The REPORT examines different approaches to the difficult topic of justice and the required linkage between a discussion based on standards and norms and empirical data (which is too unreliable). The articles especially…
Die abschließende Literaturliste des Projekts TAK nennt eine Auswahl aktueller und relevanter Aufsätze und Monographien, die sich mit dem Themenfeld Transparenz und Akzeptanz berufsrelevanter Kompetenzen beschäftigen. Das Spektrum der einzelnen Schwerpunkte reicht vom informellen Lernen über Bildungspässe bis hin zu diskontinuierlichen Erwerbsbiographien.
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