Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
In dem Band finden sich die wichtigsten Studien und Gutachten zur Weiterbildung, die im letzten Jahrzehnt einzelner (Bundes-) Länder und Regionen vorgelegt worden sind: Schweiz, Hessen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Freiburg. Bei den Systemevaluationen handelt es sich nicht nur um die "reine" Forschung, sondern auch um Gewinnung und Bewertung von Informationen zum Zwecke der Optimierung oder Revision. Die Lektüre und Analyse der hier vorgestellten …
Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present them…
The field of education policy, in particular adult education policy, is gaining importance in recent international-comparative research on education and adult education. In comparative politics, education policy is also a young but increasingly established issue. The close connection of education policy to the discipline of comparative politics, as well as theories used in that discipline, provide a well-founded research approach on education policy, which should be considered by international-…
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