How to relate Natural Sciences to Adult Education Drawing on an intensive debate on the improvement of scientific literacy going on in Germany for more than ten years, this article deals with possible contributions of adult education. Starting with the marginal supply of science courses for adults, I focus on typical didactical arrangements and concepts. Based on an empirical study, exemplary didactical concepts are analysed regarding aims, topics, course type, and audience. The results are…
This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early mode…
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) works as a provider of scientific ser vices for both research and practical work in adult and fur ther education, supplying institutions and researchers with statistical data, documents and support. Its strategic position at the interface between theory and practice corresponds with the institutes specific understanding of its own supportive function and distinctive corporate identity: transmitting scientific knowledge to practice and vice versa, p…
Der Beitrag stellt Konzeption und Implementierung eines neuartigen erwachsenenpädagogischen Studienganges, des European Master in Adult Education (EMAE), als Beitrag zur akademischen Professionalisierung kritisch dar. Als zentrale Aspekte werden curriculare Kernthemen, didaktisch-methodische Ansätze und Arbeitsmarktbezug des Studiengangs aufgegriffen. Vor dem Hintergrund der ersten Implementierungserfahrungen wird das Konzept des Studiengangs auf seine Relevanz und Weiterentwicklungspotenziale…
