This article examines learning at the university, which is located in the institutional context of the university with its structural conditions. The analysis of learning at universities opens research perspectives, to which the adult education science can deliver substantial contributions.
Based on the assumption that the findings gained during the PIAAC study provide an impetus for the development of demand-driven support opportunities, the author points out the needs for improvement in the field of basic education. At the same time, regarding the content, the author warns of constricting adult education in favour of competence and outcome oriented programmes.
The author is a freelance teacher, coach and adviser in the field of further education. In her article she reports the experiences she made with the financing of her independent business activities. Referring to the four marketing items “product – placing – promotion – price” she describes the essential skills and strategies necessary to establish successfully with a freelance job in adult education.
From the “Göttinger 18” in the “Wyhler Wald”. The learning movement of a social movement beginning in 1957. 18 German nuclear physicists signed a declaration in 1957 in which they refused to take part in the production, testing and use of nuclear weapons. This “Göttinger Declaration” was the beginning of the anti-atomic energy movement, which subsequently developed into a self-organised educational scene. One symbol of this is the Wyhler Wald Adult Education Centre in Baden, which the article …
Computer aided data analysis in the qualitative adult education research Experiences with the software MAXqda 2 and Atlas.ti The qualitative social research has various different programmes to choose from when evaluating data which can make the systemization and organization of data easier. In the contribution two works from research in adult education and respective usage of software for qualitative data analysis are exemplarily discussed. Thereby especially the process of the (network) …
Schäffter, Ortfried: Innovation consultancy in the pedagogy of adult education Institutionalisation of innovation in the organisations of extended vocational training Firstly the contribution shows to which extent an organisational theory on the pedagogy of adult education offers explanatory possiblities for an ongoing innovative structural change. Then the implicit aspect of innovation in concepts of pedagogical organisational is being expatiated and conceptually differentiated. The diffe…
Wie hängen Bildung, Macht und Kultur zusammen? Sollten kulturelle Unterschiede in Bildungsveranstaltungen thematisiert werden? Hierüber und über Fragen der Aneignung, der Expertise und der Repräsentation spricht Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Dr.in Alisha M. B. Heinemann, Professorin für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Bildungsverläufe und Diversität an der Universität Bremen.
Das DIE erstellt jährlich eine Statistik über die Aktivitäten der Volkshochschulen in Deutschland. Die vorliegende Ausgabe (49. Folge) dokumentiert die wichtigsten Fakten aus dem Arbeitsjahr 2010 in Form kommentierter Tabellen. Die Beschreibungen nehmen Bezug auf vorangegangene Untersuchungen, so dass Tendenzen in der Entwicklung der Volkshochschulen deutlich werden. Im Einzelnen finden sich Informationen zu institutionellen Merkmalen, Finanzierung, Personal, Kooperationen, Programmbereichen/Fa…
Der tabellarische Überblick der Volkshochschul-Statistik für das Jahr 2010 nennt kurz gefasst die zentralen Ergebnisse zu institutionellen Merkmalen, Personal, Finanzierung und Veranstaltungsstatistik.
