Ausgangspunkt dieser Materialien war die Fachbereichskonferenz Kulturelle Bildung 1993. Neben den Referaten zu den Themen Kulturelle Bildung im Kontext von Weiterbildung, Medien- und Erlebniskultur, Interkulturelles Lernen und Kulturmanagement enthalten sie Anmerkungen zu den Arbeitsgruppen, Literaturhinweise und eine Auswertung ausgewählter statistischer Materialien zur Kulturellen Bildung an Volkshochschulen. Deutlich werden dabei die aktuelle Vielfalt Kultureller Bildung und die Herausforder…
Die hochqualifizierten Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Generation Y, die nun in Entscheidungspositionen vorrücken und zunehmend den Bedarf an Bildungsangeboten mitbestimmen werden, haben spezifische Erwartungen in Bezug auf die Nachhaltigkeit von Bildungsangeboten und -einrichtungen. Anhand von Fokusgruppeninterviews arbeitet die Autorin diese Erwartungen heraus und legt dar, welche Folgen dies für Bildungsanbieter hat.
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…
Political Education has a long tradition in Austrian adult education. In the period of the Second Republic, ist is cinsidered marginalized. A closer look puts this assumption into perspective. Political education is widely party-centered and present in large-scale organizations such as the Federation of Trade Unions. There is a wide and confusing institutional landscape. With a few exeptions, political education is marginalized within traditional adult education such as the peoples universities…
In the recent years, the effectiveness of training teacher has become a big subject in empirical educational research. In this paper, an exploratory interview study (N?= 3) will be presented, in which the graduates of a general educational teacher training report on the effectiveness of the program. The study examines the question about the impact of the teachers who participated in the General Education Teacher Training. The teaching action here is conceptualized as part of the field of teache…
While the calls to take more notice of the significance of migration for adult education are loud and clear, notably little attention is paid to them with regard to work on categories. In adult education, fundamental theoretical work on definitions of “migration” is still far from complete. Even though individual studies deal with the term, it seems that attempts to clarify categories remain scarce. If adult education research on migration has a genuine interest in examining the risks of the hi…
