Die Textsammlung betrachtet das Fernsehen unter Aspekten der Geschichte des Adolf-Grimme-Preis, der historischen Entwicklung von Fernsehen, der Dialektik von Inhalt und Form, der politischen Kontexte, der Professionalisierung u. a.
Der Alltag von Älteren wird zum Lerngegenstand und Bildung wird zur Alltagsbewältigung, so lautet die These der Autorin. Auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen wird die Individualisierung und das Älterwerden diskutiert.
Der Länderbericht informiert über die aktuelle Situation der Erwachsenenbildung in Griechenland. Er enthält einen historischen Überblick, eine Darstellung des gesellschaftspolitischen Kontexts und zeigt die charakteristischen Strukturen des griechischen Weiterbildungssystems auf. Weiterführende Literatur, ein Glossar mit speziellen griechischen Fachausdrücken und eine Adressenliste ergänzen den Bericht.
The requirement for improving one’s life also concerns the family – and therefore family education. In his documented speech on the occasion of the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic Education Centre in Bonn, the author pleads for creating spaces for meetings and relationships as well as for conveying »serenity competences« with family education instead of supporting improvement mania.
The author investigates whether, to which extent and due to which motivation migrants participate in general further education programmes of the City-Volkshochschule (adult education school) of Berlin. Results: The ethnic composition of the city district is not mirrored in that of the course participants. Whichever their formal education, migrants are more than German course participants motivated on the personal level.
R. Jermann presents eduQua, a label that certifies certain basic standards for further education institutions in Switzerland. eduQua aims at securing and furthering the quality of further education institutions by way of the setting of basic standards, at identifying a basis for administrative decisions (certified institutions may apply for grants), and at improving transparence in the education market.
The article discusses whether it is necessary and possible to deduce the didactics of adult education from the particularities of the adult age. The authors make the case for understanding didactics of adult education in the continuity of the lifespan and as a modification of general didactics. It should be related to the characteristics of the social situation of adults. Such “didactics for adults” should be complemented by specific “didactics of further education” which focus on specific inst…
Designing consultancy Research on consultancy for adult education and extracurricular youth education? Besides a scientific debate, the following contribution is about facing the challenge of the action competence consultancy in the context of making pedagogues professionals. The aim is to modify and design existing interdisciplinary knowledge for consultancy in the context of adult education. How consultancy in the practice of adult education can be analysed interdisciplinary and which po…
