Lifelong education for seniors is becoming a significant policy focus because of factors relating to the global aging society phenomenon. Yet the modern ‘educational demoralisation’ that can result from informal experiential learning not being sufficiently valued or encouraged, may also apply to later life learning—typically manifest as a ‘fear of ageing’ as well as ageism. This is especially so in contexts where policymakers tend to just mainly focus on the worrying economic, health and other …
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Eero Pantzar presents the outlines of the development of adult education in Finland from the early beginning in the 19th century up to today. Popular education was seen as one of the necessary preconditions for the growth of general welfare, economic development and the individual’s personal growth. The first decades of the nation’s independence (1917 -) saw a strong boom in liberal adult education. This was most clearly indicated by the growing number of institutions and organisations providin…
Heino Apel vertritt drei Thesen: „1. Es gibt eine Tendenz zur ‚Multimediatisierung’ von Wissensrepräsentationen. 2. Die Konstruktion von Wissenspräsentationen ist wesentlicher Bestandteil in Lernprozessen. 3. Es liegt eine Chance reicherer, zeitadäquaterer Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten in multimedial aufbereiteten Informationen.“ Demzufolge sollten multimediale Präsentationen in Unterrichtskonzepte einbezogen werden. Apel unterscheidet dabei drei Phasen: Wahrnehmung, Implementation und Gestaltung. Anh…
