The increasing functional illiteratism among young adults is the background for the project „Gilgamesch“ – a cooperation of the university and the adult education centre in Munich. The learners are organized in small groups, the emphasis of the courses is on verbal improvement, cognitive ordering and handling of knowledge and on the development of individual strategies to overcome writing problems. The project’s theoretical and practical results will be transmitted to various institutions deali…
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This article presents didactic approaches to financial literacy using the example of the CurVe project (debt counselling as a starting point for basic education – curricular integration and transitions) which was launched at the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in March 2013. The project analyses the connection between excessive debt and basic educational needs. Its focus is on participative didactics and its goals include the strengthening of basic education through the conceptualisa…
Im März 2007 fand in Berlin die gemeinsame Tagung der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) und der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) statt (siehe: http://www.dmv-gdm-2007.math.hu-berlin.de). Bei dem Artikel handelt es sich um eine Kurzfassung des Beitrags von Monika Tröster: Mathematische Weiterbildung an deutschen Volkshoch-schulen – Entwicklungen und Good Practice Beispiele.
Education and occupation The categories of occupation and education were considered to constitute a contradiction in classic educational theory. A paradigm change is taking place through current societal modernisation processes: occupation and education are especially characterised by mutual interaction. This issue of the REPORT examines the tension-fraught relationship between occupation and education in articles offering theoretical and empirical insight, focusing on four focal points: the …
