Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
Development of personality competence and central further education barriers in social milieus Presented are partial results of a current Germany-wide empirical qualitative analysis in which the social and regional differentiation of adult education interests and adult education behaviour in the tradition of milieu research are ascertains and interpreted. On the basis of three social ambiences the development of personality competence and typical further education barriers are introduced.
Qualification and innovation in the region The contribution of small and medium-sized companies In this contribution the results of a survey of small and medium-sized companies on qualification performances and further education outlays are sketched and follow up points for further results and perspectives of formation are presented.
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
Research on participation on the topic learning resistance A concept of participative research and its results The research methods and results from a subproject on learning resistance are introduced, which came into being in the framework of a research project of a Hamburg adult education institutions on self-directed learning and social milieus.
"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.
Learning behaviour and milieu as central dimensions at the analysis of the life-long learning process Based on the empirical qualitative research project on "Biography and Learning Behaviour", in which the influence of the generation threshold established knowledge and the origin milieu of dockyard workers in Rostock with which the biographical processing of the societal transformation processes in the former DDR were examined, the following facets are made a subject of discussion. Prefacing…
The social milieus and the slowed down expansion of education Going out from the fact that the expansion of education in the last decades has not enabled an equality of educational opportunity, the contribution explores the development of the social mileus and their specific educational behaviour on the basis of the theory approach of Bourdieu.
Das Konzept Kompetenzentwicklung verspricht eine Verknüpfung von wirtschaftlichen und pädagogischen Maßstäben, von Alltagslernen und institutionalisierter Weiterbildung, von Erfahrungswissen und wissenschaftlichem Wissen, von Kennen und Können, von Bedarfen und Bedürfnissen. Der Kompetenzbegriff scheint den umstrittenen und unpräzisen Bildungsbegriff zu ersetzen. In unserer "scientific community"scheint die Forderung nach lebenslanger Kompetenzentwicklung unstrittig zu sein. Die Beiträge machen…
Ein grundlegendes Verstehen von Wissenschaft ist eine wichtige Grundlage für Teilhabefähigkeit in unserer von Wissen geprägten Gesellschaft. In der Corona-Krise zeigt sich dies in besonderem Maße. Die Autoren verweisen auf die Tradition der Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Grundbildung in der Erwachsenenbildung und sehen die Corona-Pandemie als Chance, an diese Tradition anzuschließen.
