Like a fabric made of different threads, adult education waives multiple places and reveals different paces whose influences may be complementary, contradictory and antagonistic with each other. The spaces and times that shape people’s life are rarely static or constant. They evolve and fluctuate. Every day, throughout their existence, people have to learn to adjust, coordinate and move through material, natural, social and symbolic environments that keep evolving. The aim of this paper is to e…
This article reports on expert assessments of the opportunities and risks of the current DQR process from the perspective of adult education centres. The seven experts from Germany and Austria who were surveyed in the EU Transfer Project critically analyse above all the focus on formal learning. The change in orientational perspective towards towards learning results can offer an impetus for programme planning, but also requires new skills and abilities on the part of further educational staff.
On national and international level, a number of alternative financing models for lifelong learning processes are being discussed: self financing by the learners, individual income transfer assurance systems, individual education bonus systems, state funding oder financing by companies or fonds. The author describes the different models recommending mixed cooperative forms for the German educational system.
Was leisten virtuelle Welten für das Lehren/Lernen? Chancen und Grenzen virtueller Bildung und Vorausschau auf mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen für die Erwachsenenbildung sind die Themen dieses Heftes. Der Medienphilosoph Sandbothe erläutert im DIE-Gespräch das zukünftige Verhältnis von virtuellen und realen Welten. Daran schließen sich Fragen an wie: Wozu ist Virtualität gut (Thiedecke)? Was sind die Ergebnisse lernpsychologischer Forschung hinsichtlich virtueller Lernumgebungen (Reimann) und…
Self-controlling of learning processes – a basic approach of an empirical substanciation In the first part of the contribution a heuristic systematization of the construct of the self-controlling is carried out. Then selected parts of the results of this theme are presented, taken from a representative questioning of the population concerning adult education behaviour and attitudes towards adult education.
ReSuDI is an innovative company prevention concept for semi-skilled and unskilled employees, who, in Germany, increasingly have a migrational background. Due to the difficult access to this target group, ReSuDi involves multipliers, who can influence the employees during their daily working routine. As a result, they are able to initiate learning processes and improve the working condition. ReSuDi is a comprehensive organisational programme, i.e. all hierarchy levels are included and personal a…
The reference to “classical” authors dominates the literature on organizational learning to an extent which is comparably large within the field of organizational sciences. After briefly reviewing the state of the art of theories of organizational learning, this article introduces a new model of organizational learning which builds on Knud Illeris’ “learning triangle”. Basically, it adopts the general structure of this triangle and transforms the crucial concepts of Illeris’ approach to analogo…
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…
