Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
Weichenstellungen von heute werden die Zukunft von morgen mitgestalten. Welchen Beitrag kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten und was werden die Themen sein, die in die Zukunft weisen? Die Beiträge des Heftes beschäftigen sich mit aktuellen Tendenzen: Medienkompetenz (Lehmann, Grube u.a.), Veränderungen in Berufsbiografien (Pongratz), Leben mit Anderen (Hafeneger), Erwachsenengrundbildung (Kamper) und künftige Aufgaben im institutionellen Gefüge von Weiterbildung (Schneider). Alfred Grosser (Par…
Diese Ausgabe der DIE Zeitschrift thematisiert Veränderungen der Funktion von Weiterbildung für die Erwachsenenbildung und damit veränderte Anforderungen an die Kursleitenden. Kompakte Lernorganisationsformen und die Vernetzung von Lernorten und Akteuren auf dem Weiterbildungsmarkt gewinnen an Bedeutung, immer mehr unterschiedliche Lernanforderungen werden in Lernarrangements integriert. Dabei erhält die Vermittlungskompetenz des Kursleitenden gegnüber der Fachkompetenz einen höheren Stellenwer…
Zum Themenschwerpunkt »DIY – Do It Yourself« Ob Stricken, Fotografieren oder Brot backen: Selbermachen ist angesagt. Gelernt wird es nicht nur in der Erwachsenenbildung, sondern auch mithilfe von Ratgeberliteratur oder über Youtube. Dieses handwerkliche Lernen erfolgt bisher unbeachtet von der erwachsenenpädagogischen Diskussion – zu Unrecht. In diesem Heft gehen wir verschiedenen Fragen nach: Wer lernt was und an welchem Ort? Wie viel Anleitung benötigt und verträgt Selbermachen? Bestätigt od…
The article presents a number of photographs of the Franz Pöggeler estate, which is preserved in the archive of the German Institute of Adult Education. The historic pictures vary between ecclesiastic-monumental architectural photography and simple snap shots and illustrate the differences of learning and teaching arrangements in the history of adult education centres. Even though the author regards the photographs as evidence of a mentality-historically obsolete period, they still indicate the…
The ageing population presents a series of policy challenges, for which our current three phase model of the lifecourse is unhelpful, especially by overlooking the changing nature of the “third age”. Encouraging people to stay longer in paid work is a key priority for Government, and training is often advocated as a way of encouraging this. This paper summarises the demographic challenge and presents a proposal for rethinking the lifecourse. It then describes the findings of a project, which ex…
Representative surveys on participation in continuing education are the basis for analyses of lifelong learning as well as a description of the continuing education sector within the educational system. The information which is made available should be sufficiently differentiated in order to be able to distinguish different types of learning activities. One of the most important distinctions is the one between general and continuing vocational education. This article examines how and with what …
This article discusses the Federal German “Orientation course“ and different prototypes for “naturalisation tests“ in the German Länder in the context of comparative integration policy. Integration courses and naturalisation tests have at the same time become a policy tool for promoting integration in a targeted manner in various countries which attract immigration. Following a presentation of the context and the presentation of instruction material in the orientation courses, the authors inter…
Research on learning - a retrospective The history of empirical research on adults’ learning reaches back until the twenties of the last century. This contribution evokes some interpretative research on the pedagogy of learning and teaching for adults. It seems that the adult education sciences’ disciplinary memory is underdeveloped as many instructive older analysis seem to have fallen into oblivion. Recent studies mostly don’t pay attention to the linkages and continuity of the questions. …
