Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…
Welche Sprache(n) spricht Europa? Zum europäischen Jahr der Sprachen beleuchtet das Heft 4/2001 relevante Themen für die Erwachsenenbildung wie Sprachenpolitik, Sprachenschutz und Sprachendidaktik. Albert Raasch untersucht die sprachpolitischen Hintergründe der aktuellen Diskussionen. Brauchen wir nur noch Englisch?: Jostes und Weinrich fragen nach der Bedeutung von Mehrsprachigkeit. Was bringt der Konstruktivismus für die Fremdsprachendidaktik (Kallenbach)? Und schließlich steht die Qualität v…
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Polarisierungen seit der Weimarer Republik bis heute.
The historiography of adult education has painted an almost entirely optimistic picture of enlightenment until today. The actors are defined as people who are willing to learn and capable of being educated. Thanks to the advances in the enlightenment process they mature into responsible citizens. Sources based on individual history, like the ones presented in the “Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde” (1783-1793), are not taken into consideration. In his role as editor of the periodical magazine, …
Neue wie erfahrene Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbildung stehen vor der ständigen Herausforderung, ihr Wissen über den Fremdsprachenunterricht zu aktualisieren: Wie wirken sich neuere Entwicklungen in der Linguistik oder in der Lerntheorie auf die Didaktik und Methodik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts mit Erwachsenen aus? Eine Einführung, die nicht nur zeigt, "wie" man unterrichtet, sondern die sich auch den "Warum"-Fragen widmet.
Research on learning - a retrospective The history of empirical research on adults’ learning reaches back until the twenties of the last century. This contribution evokes some interpretative research on the pedagogy of learning and teaching for adults. It seems that the adult education sciences’ disciplinary memory is underdeveloped as many instructive older analysis seem to have fallen into oblivion. Recent studies mostly don’t pay attention to the linkages and continuity of the questions. …
The DIE Journal on Adult Education (DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung) was renamed "weiter bilden" in 2018. The quarterly DIE Journal focuses on a specific topic to inform about current developments in adult education. It is mostly directed at full-time employees and planners in continuing education as well as authorities in education policy and administration. It is scientifically sound as well as practice oriented - magazine as well as reflection instrument.
