The high mortality rate among Lesotho’s younger generation, caused by disruptions such as chronic illnesses and other socio-economic and cultural changes, has led older adults to become caregivers. This paper reports on the experiences of older adults regarding their caregiving role during times of disruption. It further reveals how older adults have learned about their role as caregivers. Adult learning theories were reviewed and used to interpret the results of the study. The interpretive par…
The article sets out to identify common prejudices on e-learning. Its pedagogical surplus depends on the methodical-didactic design. The authors back their verdict by experiences of learners in an online-based course. Learners judge new-mediasupported learning as being intensive, communicative, but time-consuming. E-learning requires self-discipline, selfmotivation, self-organisation, good time management and basic technical competences.
Opening higher education for new target groups is regarded as an important political and social goal. Based on central political frameworks the following article analyses, which new target groups are addressed in higher education institutions and which specific demands they have for the organization and structuring of teaching and learning. In the focus of the analysis are studies from higher education research and instructional design. The perspectives of these two in the past almost separated…
Der REPORT vermittelt einen Überblick zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung und Theoriebildung in der Erwachsenenbildung. Jedes Heft behandelt ein Schwerpunktthema und enthält einen umfangreichen Rezensionsteil.
The relation between sustainability and widening access to adult learners in higher education is both well comprehensible and highly vague. Accordingly, and following the arguments of Seghezzo (2009) and Foster (2001), the paper aims to complement academic discourse on widening access of higher education by showing the benefit of using the concept of sustainability not merely as an operational measurement index or a learning topic content-wise. Rather, a different understanding of sustainabilit…
The article presents the European development of new learning centres as well as educational and cultural centres, in which adult education institutions and libraries continue to merge. The author depicts three examples of these new institutions, which are increasingly becoming an element of educational urban development.
Der Artikel behandelt die Strategien Lebenslangen Lernens, die in Großbritannien angewendet werden. Dabei geht er insbesondere auf die Verbindung von "Individual Learning Accounts" mit anderen Initiativen ein.
Industriemeister sind heute zunehmend als „Manager in der Produktion“ tätig, der eigenverantwortlich Teams koordiniert und zur Lösung mittelfristiger Aufgaben beiträgt. Um angehende Meister optimal auf die neuen Herausforderungen vorzubereiten, werden in den Lehrgängen „Betriebliche Situationsaufgaben“ eingesetzt, die ein reales Problem schildern und sowohl technisch-organisatorische Fragen als auch Aspekte der Personalführung berühren. Das Projekt „Meisternetz“ hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, …
