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. …
Subjective learning substantiations for the study of pedagogy with the field of study of andragogy Insights into a qualitative study Why do people decide for a pedagogical/andragogical study? Which ideas, desires, expectations or also fears do they connect with the choice of this learning- and education path? The learning substantiations for the pedagogical study are the first step towards a path to profession and professionalization. This is why in a regional, qualitative study at the ch…
Education or competence – a pseudo alternative? It is a platitude that the structural change of society also leads to structural problems of further education. Therefore this is discusses intensively for some time past and the practical transpositions are gross. The impression of the authors is that it is argued, latently or explicitly, dichothomic even though that in fact is not necessary. In this contribution the authors want to expand on two such contradiction theorems with the intention …
Im Kontext organisationalen Lernens fragen die Autoren, wie man Qualifikations- und Kompetenzentwicklung zusammenbringen kann. Sie entfalten ihren Zugang am Beispiel von E-Learning und Wissensmanagement. Zunächst werden die Begriffe Qualifikation und Kompetenz geklärt, wobei für die Entwicklung von beidem das erste als Voraussetzung für das zweite angesehen wird. Schließlich wird an einem Praxisbeispiel aus einem Großunternehmen (eine der führenden Fluggesellschaften) gezeigt, wie Qualifikation…
Wer bringt die erforderlichen Mittel für Bildung auf? Welche Möglichkeiten einer Refinanzierung und/oder Überwälzung von Ausgaben, Aufwendungen oder Kosten gibt es? Reinhold Weiß, Mitarbeiter des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, legt in seinem Beitrag zum DIE-Forum „Finanzierung lebenslangen Lernens” (29./30. No-vember 1999 in Frankfurt) dazu 20 Thesen vor. Er gliedert sie nach den Schwerpunkten „Refinanzierung und Kostenüberwälzung“, „Überwälzung betrieblicher Kosten“, „Berufsbildung a…
Oscar Olsson war einer der treibenden Kräfte beim Aufbau von Study Circle in Schweden Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese richteten sich an die ärmere Landbevölkerung und Arbeiter. Historisch waren die Study Circle eng mit den Prinzipien der „Popular Education“ in sozialen Bewegungen, insbesondere der Arbeiterbewegung, verbunden.
The primary objective of guidance and counselling in continuing education and training is its focus on customers by means of changing perspective on their interests and concerns as a key principle for processes, methods and tools. Quality of guidance services is the outcome of well-planned and structured approaches respectively customer-focused guidance procedures. It is also the result of a process in each individual counselling situation and cannot be completely regulated by institutional and…
“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
Knowledge and experience can be understood as pivotal didactic variables not only in age-based learning environments but also in intergenerational learning cultures. This article focuses these two concepts and analyses them with regard to their function and relevance in intergenerational learning cultures. The theoretical and empirical findings of a triangulative study will support the argument. By presenting a theoretical and practical dichotomy concerning the use of knowledge and experience i…
