Analysing the Course of Processes in Counselling – A Desideratum Reasoning and Development of a Research Design Different processes of counselling have been a non-studied field of research in adult education so far. It is necessary for the professionalization of counselling to close this research gap by an empirical basic work, because the need for counselling is increasing. A research design is explained by this article. The methodological outline will be developed and reasoned.
Working biographies today do not last for life. The author describes the concepts of labour entrepreneur as a new type of labour which means that employees put their competence to the market. Characteristics of the labour entrepreneur is responsibilityfor the organisation and the marketing of one’s own competence. As a consequence in adult education didactical and methodical concepts for the interpretation and self-reflection of one’s own biography have to be developed.
Traditionally, adult foreign language learning is an issue of foreign and second language acquisition research. This book advocates increased adult educational research in this particular field of practice, which is presented in a detailed overview of theories and concepts, research, statistics, teaching-learning approaches and recommendations. Case studies demonstrate how qualitative methods of programme analysis, video interaction research and biography analysis are used as approaches to adul…
Bildung und Spiel – das ist mehr als die mutmaßlich gewürfelte Schulnote, die eine Bildungsbiografie ausbremst. Spiele, das ist die These dieses Heftes, sind anders als das Leben, aber weil sie uns in Distanz zur Wirklichkeit setzen, ermöglichen die Bildung. Ihr Lern- und Bildungspotenzial entfalten sie als Computerspiel ebenso wie als Gruppen- oder Strategiespiel. Der Einsatzbereich, das zeigen die Beiträge dieses Heftes, reichen von der Alphabetisierungsarbeit bis in die betriebliche Weiterbi…
