Religion, ethics and adult education Religion and ethics serve as a relevant topic in various contexts of adult education, be it as a challenge for self-reflection or as point of departure in public debate. This issue will address various aspects bringing together academic discourse and practical work. The authors will in particular focus on social issues.
Die Textsammlung betrachtet das Fernsehen unter Aspekten der Geschichte des Adolf-Grimme-Preis, der historischen Entwicklung von Fernsehen, der Dialektik von Inhalt und Form, der politischen Kontexte, der Professionalisierung u. a.
The article introduces two commemorative articles for anniversaries of adult education providers and identifies their trivialising way of dealing with problematic parts of history. The commemorative article for the 100th anniversary of the „Heimvolkshochschule Tingleff“ plays the role of its managing director during the NS-regime down. The commemorative article on behalf of a city’s 800th anniversary dealing with the history of the Community Adult Education Centre Dresden excludes the problemat…
Dr. Klaus Bednarz ist seit 1983 Moderator und Leiter der Redaktion des Fernsehmagazins „Monitor“. Zuvor war er lange Jahre Korrespondent des Deutschen Fernsehens z.B. in Warschau und Moskau. Für seine aufklärerischen Berichterstattungen erhielt er u.a. den Adolf-Grimme-Preis. Im DIE-Gespräch mit Herbert Bohn und Rüdiger Preißer spricht Bednarz über polarisierende Aufklärung und Information in Medien und Bildung, über soziale und kulturelle Polarisierungen zwischen Ost und West. Für ihn ist der …
Hannelore Jouly, Direktorin der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart, umreißt im DIE-Gespräch “Begegnung mit dem Unerwarteten” Dimensionen konzeptioneller und medialer Planung und Gestaltung von neuen Lernräumen und veränderten Lernarrangements in einem multimedialen Lernzentrum. Erhard Schlutz fragt im Beitrag “Vom Methodenklmepner zum Lernarchitekten?”, wie flexibel Lehren und Lernen gestaltet werden müssen, um lebenslange, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse an unterschiedlichen - auch virtuellen - Lernorten z…
Volunteering in the field of migration/refuge opens up a potential learning space for the acquisition of numerous competencies. The paper is based on an empirical pre-study from Austria and focusses on an analysis of political learning processes amongst volunteers and their implications for the development of active citizenship and the connected challenges for adult education. Diverse factors influencing the engagement of volunteers, such as political and media discourse about refugees, are con…
This article examines the guidelines and objectives of political (societal) and citizenship education in Finland during the past 40 years approximately. During this relatively short period different programmes have arisen which aptly reflect changes which have taken place, in viewpoints, in the social atmosphere and in citizens’ political interests. The article is concerned with the reports of two committees, the Adult Education Committee and the Lifelong Learning Committee, since the beginning…
In federal Germany the political responsibility for educational planning and research subsidies is newly under discussion. The keyword is „decartelization“. Leibniz association’s vice-president pleads for more interlacing instead of decartelization.
