The report outlines the 50-year history of the statistics on adult education centres published by the German Institute of Adult Education and its predecessors since 1962. The chronology of events is depicted in a chart, whereas the tool‘s various characteristics, which generated key problems since the beginning and still do until today, are discussed in the text. The author fathoms future chances and challenges of input-oriented institutional statistics in a time with a tendency towards output …
Der Text erläutert die Ziele, Aufgaben und Perspektiven des Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE).
The article presents the results of the author’s study on the views of pedagogy students on politics and education. The research has been undertaken subsequently to the 2015 parliamentary elections won by the party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc” (“Law and Justice”, PiS). During the election campaign, this party’s program offered radical changes, also in the Polish educational system. The aim of the study was the recognition of the level of interest in politics, the approach to democracy and education…
Guide books provide instructions for the discovery and exploration of new environments. The author identifies educational functions such as selection and directed attention to prepare the object for appropriation. Using pictures, guide books direct the attention to things which are supposedly worth seeing thus functioning as a visual guide. At the same time, in all identifying functions the author draws attention to the medium’s limitation and identifies the resulting limitations to appropriati…
Das Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW) war bis zuletzt die wichtigste Erhebung zur Weiterbildungsbeteiligung in Deutschland. Jetzt hat es Konkurrenz bekommen: den europäischen „Adult Education Survey“ (AES). Die Ergebnisse beider Repräsentativbefragungen der deutschen Bevölkerung liegen in diesem Band vor. Neben Aussagen zur Beteiligung, zum Zeitaufwand, zu Formen, Kosten, Nutzen und Themen von Weiterbildung werden Merkmale vorgestellt, die sich als zentrale individuelle und beschäftigungsbezog…
The contribution reports central thoughts of the American psychologist Csikszentmihalyi from the book “FLOW“, and it sharpens the statements on the reality of learners and teachers. “Flow“ stands for the “optimum experience“. Therewith Csikszentmihalyi indicates a feeling of high spirits, of deeply felt joy that lasts long and that occurs when body and soul of a person is strained to limits in the voluntary endeavour to achieve something difficult and something valuable. In this condition, orde…
