Die demografische Entwicklung und der zahlenmäßige Anteil von Migranten an der über 60-jährigen Wohnbevölkerung in Deutschland belegen den Bedarf für eine interkulturelle Altenbildung. Die Autorin führt nacheinander ein in die Themenfelder Interkulturelle Bildung, und Bildung älterer Erwachsener, bevor sie beide miteinander verknüpft. Obwohl der Erwerb interkultureller Handlungskompetenz ein wichtiger Bestandteil der allgemeinen Bildungskonzeption und des lebenslangen Lernens ist, fehlen in der…
Hedonism and body cult have to be considered as social phenomena. They are an expression of the individualisaton of health behaviour and of the search for wellness. Wellness is connected with sensuality and enjoyment in many people’s minds. Health consciousness is influenced by individual experience. Health learning can incorporate wellness and the experiential dimension in a productive way.
Federal law as envisaged in the socalled Hartz paper provides for the introduction of education vouchers. Is political education concerned? Against this background, the author explores funding structures of political education on the federal as well as on the Länder plane, of municipalities and foundations. Her verdict is disenchanting: many institutions of political education, especially the very small ones, are facing their end. This is corroborated by two statements of experts from the field…
Taking demographical development as a starting point, Turek identifies functions of political education. It should help to avoid the »clash of generations «. Demographical change, however, is only one of several trends: the change from modern industrial society towards a transnational technological society calls for a new »contract across generations«. Political education initialises a future-oriented selfremodelling of society and thus becomes an investment into its human resource…
Ein Blick auf die Krise in der politischen Bildung von den 1960er Jahren bis heute.