This article presents results of a field study exploring why illiterates start relearning reading and writing at a later age. The project SYLBE focused on reasons and obstacles of participants in basic education classes. The study provides a typology of motivations for learning and thus supports the professional acting of teaching staff in basic education.
The International PIAAC study has collected data on competencies of adults in three domains in 25 countries, in many of them for the first time ever. The article provides an overview of central terms, main aims and the methodological approach of this OECD study. It also discusses its potentials and limitations. One limitation is the focus on the labour force, excluding adults older than 65 years, a fast growing part of many populations in times of demographic change. To remedy this limitation,…
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This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.
Im Beitrag werden erste Ergebnisse des Dissertationsprojektes Digitalisierung im Lehralltag an Hochschulen vorgestellt. Im Fokus stehen Lehrende und ihre Erfahrungswirklichkeit in Hinsicht auf Digitalisierung und digitale Medien. Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus dem Bereich der Ingenieurwissenschaft en werden kollektive Orientierungs-muster herausgearbeitet. Der Beitrag dient vorrangig der Diskussion um das methodische Vorgehen.
