Currently a dilemma within organization studies seems to be represented by, on the one hand, proponents who argue for a retro-wave, to go back to the original ideas of organization studies, the core tasks of enterprises and importance of the relevance of organization studies to practitioners. On the other hand, another contemporary movement may be observed within organization studies, which is to defend the use of general theories of the social sciences. This latter trend is represented through…
This study starts from a dilemma which has been observed in adult basic education. On the one hand the use of assessments is regarded as supportive in order to determine in detail the learning needs of adults. On the other hand it is to be expected that persons with experiences of performing inadequately show justified anxieties or resistances in connection with test situations. I have chosen a research approach, which follows Holzkamp’s concept of a subject-scientific learning theory (1995), b…
Dieser Band verbindet die Forschung im Feld der Alphabetisierung mit der Erwachsenenbil-dungsforschung. Dazu wird erstens ein aktueller Überblick über den empirischen Forschungsstand im Feld der Alphabetisierung gegeben, der entlang der klassischen Forschungslinien in der Erwachsenen-bildungswissenschaft systematisiert wird. Zweitens werden die Ergebnisse eines pädagogischen Lernforschungsprojekts im Feld der Alphabetisierung vorgestellt. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Untersuchung wurden typ…
Teaching adults with low basic skills requires a large set of special know-how and competences. Due to this fact, the general aim of this module is to give teachers and tutors all necessary information, practices, skills, competences and attitudes to work effectively with adults. - Poster - Description of the module - Timed agenda - Detailed workplan - Handout
The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
