The didactical gap in the “didactical self choice” In adult education didactics are closely conglomerated with learn theoretical concepts without clearly naming its own questions in content. This becomes especially obvious in the newly research on e-learning. After the failure of the technically possible, the call for didactics has become loud. When one regards the pertinent publications, one finds remarkably many which take their didactical foundation from the learn theory and therewith ha…
Participants related and milieu related aspects of participation in adult education It is assumed that the participants quotas, participants interests and participants motivation do not only differ regarding the central sociodemografic features but also differ strongly with regard to the respective milieu affiliation. Theoretically the milieu studies add on to the traditional pilot studies of adult education (cp. Strzelewicz among others 1966) and the differentiating analyses of the modern r…
Im Zusammenhang mit lebensbegleitendem Lernen geraten kooperative Bildungsarrangements, d.h. Weiterbildungsangebote, -projekte, -maßnahmen und -initiativen, die in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Organisationen entstehen, in den Blick. Solche Arrangements werden in Deutschland von bildungspolitischer Seite gefördert. Erwartet werden Problemlösungen in pädagogischer, wirtschaftlicher und organisatorischer Hinsicht. Es ist Aufgabe der erwachsenenpädagogischen Forschung, die Rahmenbedingungen genauer z…
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
So far, numeracy as part of basic education has only been considered peripherally in the German-speaking countries, regarding the scientific as well as the practical approaches of adult education. In this article, theoretical and conceptual lines of the discourse are linked systematically. In addition, it is argued for an extension of the discourse by including the concept of subject-oriented basic education, which is based on the concept of numeracy as social practice. Initial findings from tw…
