Consequences from subject-orientated research: questions to a media- and adult didactical requirement Based on empirical results that are currently available on subject-scientific basis on e-learning, the author wants to pose questions to media- and adult didactical set-ups. He asks these questions pointedly by bringing the “burning glass-thesis” up for discussion. Thereby it needs to be clarified, which characteristics justify a specific media-didactical discussion. Because these specific r…
Fachdidaktik ist die fachbezogene Schwester der allgemeinen Didaktik. Als Lehre von der Vermittlung einer bestimmten Sache legitimiert sie sich über deren Eigenwert. Mathematik lehrt man anders als Religion. Aber wie wichtig ist die »Sache« in der heutigen Erwachsenenbildung? Wer benötigt Fachdidaktik, wenn es nicht mehr um die Sache, sondern um Kompetenzen geht? Ist es dann überhaupt ein Problem, dass das Erwachsenenpädagogische Personal immer querschnittskompetenter wird? Ja, denn es droht d…
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Several paradoxes of a constructivistical didactics The problem of the transfer of constructivistical insights into didactical action models – theoretical and practical reflections In the following, four central theses of the radical constructivism insight are worked out, which show gains as well as contradictions from this perspective of adult didactical action. A concluding bottom line goes into the matter of the question of how viable constructivism is for didactical action.
The article discusses whether it is necessary and possible to deduce the didactics of adult education from the particularities of the adult age. The authors make the case for understanding didactics of adult education in the continuity of the lifespan and as a modification of general didactics. It should be related to the characteristics of the social situation of adults. Such “didactics for adults” should be complemented by specific “didactics of further education” which focus on specific inst…
Knowledge and experience can be understood as pivotal didactic variables not only in age-based learning environments but also in intergenerational learning cultures. This article focuses these two concepts and analyses them with regard to their function and relevance in intergenerational learning cultures. The theoretical and empirical findings of a triangulative study will support the argument. By presenting a theoretical and practical dichotomy concerning the use of knowledge and experience i…
How to relate Natural Sciences to Adult Education Drawing on an intensive debate on the improvement of scientific literacy going on in Germany for more than ten years, this article deals with possible contributions of adult education. Starting with the marginal supply of science courses for adults, I focus on typical didactical arrangements and concepts. Based on an empirical study, exemplary didactical concepts are analysed regarding aims, topics, course type, and audience. The results are…
Das Lehrbuch stellt das Lehren und Lernen Erwachsener ins Zentrum der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, das als ein Mehrebenensystem betrachtet wird. Unterschieden werden die Ebene der bildungspolitischen Steuerung, die Ebene der Organisationen, in denen Aufgaben der Leitung, des Managements und der Programm- und Angebotsentwicklung verortet sind, sowie die Ebene der Lehr-, Lern- und Beratungsprozesse. Die Wirkungen der Erwachsenenbildung werden als Ergebnis einer Ko-Konstruktion der Handlungen v…
