"Adult education students" as subject of the participation research After a short introduction into the questions and methods of a research project of participation research at the further education Danube University Krems, a partial result for motivation structure is sketched.
Little is known about the qualifications of trainers in further vocational education. Some hold a degree in educational sciences. At the same time prospective trainers seem to be part of the target group of programs that specialize in adult education. The study focuses on which contents are intended in these programs and whether they could qualify for a later occupational activity as a training professional. For this purpose the course descriptions of 32 programs were analyzed and 10 responsibl…
Institutionally organized adult education has traditionally seen the integration of social strata and groups as its most important task. However, in recent years an increasing disinterest of general adult education in integrative work is to be observed which goes along with the emergence of a specialised andragogical approach and institutional compartmentalization: people with disabilities are increasingly catered for by care facilities and financed by social welfare institutions. The emergence…
Maxims as a "soft" instrument for quality assurance in honorary organised adult education It is reported of the results of a model project of rural adult education that had the aim of developing close to practice quality criteria for honorary staff in this field.
Accessibility – A Didactic Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part III Based on the access rights to all public education, the author evaluates the dimensions of accessibility to be considered in planning and implementing inclusive adult educational programmes. Constructional prerequisites are brushed though the main focus is on the techniques of barrier-free communication which are micro-didactically described more critically as a “two sense approach”. The last paragraph re…
"Introduction into adult education“ Constitution of object and theory perspectives in the medium of a specific literature genre The contribution analyses in an observation of second order the specific method, with which the newly "introduction into adult education“ is constituted its object and thereby brings to bear a special perspectivity. The four analysed introductions make a topic of adult education as a double search move, as professional learning intercede, of learning as an institut…
Striving for quality is at the core of pedagogical professionalism. Therefore the science of further education has to intervene in the quality discussion in two ways: Firstly, it must develop criteria by which systems of quality assurance can be compared and by which their appropriateness for the sector of further education can be evaluated. Secondly, it must inquire yet more persistently into the specifics of pedagogical quality and find out what further education science can contribute toward…
Seit Jahrzehnten wird Krisenvorsorge im Gesundheitssektor als technisch-institutionelle Aufgabe begriffen. Die Bevölkerung wird dabei meist übersehen – obwohl sie die Schlüsselressource in jeder Krise ist. Und diese Ressource lässt sich bilden. Wortwörtlich. Warum Information während der Pandemie nicht ausreichte, um Panik und Verharmlosung zu verhindern – und was Deutschland von Finnlands „Comprehensive Security“ lernen kann, wo Medienkompetenz offiziell als Verteidigungsinstrument gilt.
Radikalisierung wird meist als Jugendphänomen behandelt – dabei zeigen Daten aus mehreren Bundesländern einen erheblichen Anteil älterer Menschen in extremistischen Szenen, von Reichsbürgern bis Islamismus. Anders als bei jungen Menschen fehlt hier jedoch ein zentraler Erreichbarkeitsweg wie die Schule. Isabel Lang zeigt, welche Projekte bereits ansetzen, wo Lücken bestehen – und warum Radikalisierungsprävention zu einem wichtigen Themenfeld der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung werden muss.
