This article presents results of a field study exploring why illiterates start relearning reading and writing at a later age. The project SYLBE focused on reasons and obstacles of participants in basic education classes. The study provides a typology of motivations for learning and thus supports the professional acting of teaching staff in basic education.
The study Competencies in Later Life (CiLL) provides for the first time representative data regarding the competencies of older people between the age of 66 to 80 years in three different domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It is shown that there are significant differences between people with different qualification, but also between people of different birth cohorts. Despite major qualification differences between men and women, there are no signi…
Der Zusammenhang zwischen Mustern von Männlichkeit und jenem Lernen, welches das Leben insgesamt umfasst und begleitet, wird weder in der Erwachsenenbildung noch in der kritischen Männerforschung thematisiert. Die Studie will den Anstoß geben, diese Lücke zukünftig zu schließen. In diesem Interesse werden Sekundäranalysen der Befunde kritischer Männerforschung vorgenommen. Erste Brückenschläge zur Kohäsion von Männlichkeitstypik und Lernen schließen sich an. Daneben werden geschlechtsspezifisc…
