Participating in social movements can support educational success and stabilise educational paths. Ingrid Miethe draws this conclusion after conducting a study with 85 biographic narrative interviews with successful education achievers. The article presents five aspects to illustrate the connection of being involved in movements and educational success.
The author prefers the term of »sustainable learning« compared with »education for sustainable development«, because she sees the numerous non-institutionalised learning processes being included. The UN decade is a challenge for a variety of learning places, protagonists and target groups. She confronts the chances for the decade with several social, above all individual barriers, which complicate the learning of sustainability. Besides the value attitudes and emotions above all here the factor…
Auf Einladung des Arbeitskreises Universitäre Erwachsenenbildung (AUE) diskutierten ca. 120 Teilnehmende im September 1999 über Tendenzen in der universitären Weiterbildung. Insgesamt hat die Tagung deutlich gemacht, dass sich ein grundlegender Paradigmenwechsel in der universitären Weiterbildung abzeichnet. Drei Leitthemen bestimmten die Vorträge und Diskussionen: 1. Gestufte Abschlüsse und Leistungspunkte: Dieser Trend manifestiert sich in den Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen, die sich im S…
In this article, the dialogue between young and very old people is examined structurally and with regards to contents in the context of education and learning. Topics, interpretations and motivations are the factors which decide how educational and learning processes of different generations can be shaped and understood.
