This article is concerned with the discourse and policy of lifelong learning in Europe after 1973. It deals with the question whether the 1980s have to be seen as a period of diminishing interest in lifelong learning or as a formative phase of so called neoliberalism. Applying a corpus lingustic approach, it analyses the official documents of the European Communities as archived in the database EUR-Lex. The results are interpreted as the expression of a new European governance regime called “te…
Der vorliegende Bericht beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der bundesweiten alphamonitor-Erhebung des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. zum Weiterbildungsangebot in der Alphabetisierung/Grundbildung für das Berichtsjahr 2016. Zu diesem unter bildungs- und sozialpolitischen Gesichtspunkten wichtigen Themenfeld der Erwachsenenbildung werden Daten zu Umfang und Ausrichtung des Angebots in den beiden Teilbereichen, zur Teilnahme, zu den Lehrenden…
The international 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 Belarus and outlines the key features of its 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 a…
The article presents the results of the author’s study on the views of pedagogy students on politics and education. The research has been undertaken subsequently to the 2015 parliamentary elections won by the party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc” (“Law and Justice”, PiS). During the election campaign, this party’s program offered radical changes, also in the Polish educational system. The aim of the study was the recognition of the level of interest in politics, the approach to democracy and education…
Der Weiterbildung kommt aufgrund der Entwicklungen in Gesellschaft und Arbeitswelt eine stetig wachsende Bedeutung zu. Dennoch sind nur unverbundene und unvollständige Informationen zu diesem Bereich verfügbar. Beobachtungs- und Steuerungsinstrumente, die der Dokumentation, Weiterentwicklung oder dem systematischen Aufspüren von Trends dienen, sind kaum vorhanden. DieWeiterbildungsstatistik versteht sich als Beitrag, diese Lücke zu schließen. Die Statistik umfasst neben den Veranstaltungen auch…
In the view of cultural history, andragogy precedes pedagogy. The task of the andragogy is the social distribution of cultural innovations. The passing on of such innovation to the following generation is the task of pedagogy. Andragogy and pedagogy have been carried out over thousands of years in the mode of informal learning. With the dawn of literacy, formal learning emerges which then institutionalizes forms of schooling for the young generations. Institutions for andragogical formal learni…
