Boundless work, bounded adult education? Setting out from the point of an interdisciplinary work research project on the basis of two empirical case studies it is worked out in which way current modernisation processes are referred back to on learning- and educational processes of staff.
Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
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.
The individual and society today On the relevance of actor-network-theory, post-academic science and self-directed learning Introduced are deliberations on a post-academic science that came into being by the societal change as well as the requirements concerning self-directed learning in future.
Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
Research on participation on the topic learning resistance A concept of participative research and its results The research methods and results from a subproject on learning resistance are introduced, which came into being in the framework of a research project of a Hamburg adult education institutions on self-directed learning and social milieus.
Learning behaviour and milieu as central dimensions at the analysis of the life-long learning process Based on the empirical qualitative research project on "Biography and Learning Behaviour", in which the influence of the generation threshold established knowledge and the origin milieu of dockyard workers in Rostock with which the biographical processing of the societal transformation processes in the former DDR were examined, the following facets are made a subject of discussion. Prefacing…
Nach einer kritischen Einführung zur behaupteten Krise politischer Bildung werden anhand eines Interviews mit einem Leiter von Arbeit und Leben Veränderungen in diesem Bildungsbereich vorgestellt. Daraus werden Perspektiven politischer Bildung bei korporativ-pluralen Anbietern entwickelt.
