Fluchterfahrungen sind für viele Betroffene kritische Lebensereignisse. Entscheidend für die innere Bewältigung ist, einordnen zu können, was ein Ereignis kritisch für die eigene Biographie macht, was die Folgen sein können und wie nach der Erschütterung und oftmals Verzweiflung ein konstruktiver Umgang mit den Erinnerungen an das Ereignis möglich wird. Was kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten, um geflüchtete Menschen zu unterstützen? Welche Haltung und welche Unterstützungsstrukturen die Lehre…
In den vergangenen Jahren sind unterschiedliche BNE-Zertifizierungen entwickelt worden. Aus den Erfahrungen eines Projekts zur Entwicklung einer solchen Zertifizierung zeigt der Autor, wie ein Zertifizierungsprozess Einrichtungen helfen kann, sich im Bereich BNE zu professionalisieren.
The present findings are based on a programme analysis of one fifth of all programmes provided by public adult education institutions in Low Saxony in 2012. The study focused on field classification as well as on the analysis of participation portals. Over all, eight portals were developed and identified for the analysis. The findings provide information on methods for addressing social requirements and thus differentiating the educational field – how intercultural education undergoes a delta-s…
Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
In the educational facilities of the State Sports Associations of the Bundesländer, open adult education is implemented which serves the goals of formation of personality and enlightenment, furthers maturity, and cultivates social competences, and which is - albeit decreasingly - publicly funded. More than 3.000 full-time and part-time pedagogical staff are employed in these facilities. Nearly 15.000 courses for about 300.000 participants are held. But this is not the only field within sports …
In order to reach real equality of men and women it is necessary to substitute not only women but also men and fathers in their role as an “active” father in family, society and professional life. The article describes education of fathers as a relatively new form of adult and further education focusing the consequences of social change processes and orientating by biographical transitions as there are pregnancy, bir th preparation, to be familiar with the role of parents, separation and di…
Looking at persons and at those active in organisations has forever been in the focus of psychological research on organisations. Monika Kil draws attention to the fact that pedagogical psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology can also contribute towards a structuring of further education institutions that is conducive to learning. Developing a »learning culture « is one aspect of this. A review of further developments and findings opens up new dimensions for a discourse on organi…
