Fluchterfahrungen sind für viele Betroffene kritische Lebensereignisse. Entscheidend für die innere Bewältigung ist, einordnen zu können, was ein Ereignis kritisch für die eigene Biographie macht, was die Folgen sein können und wie nach der Erschütterung und oftmals Verzweiflung ein konstruktiver Umgang mit den Erinnerungen an das Ereignis möglich wird. Was kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten, um geflüchtete Menschen zu unterstützen? Welche Haltung und welche Unterstützungsstrukturen die Lehre…
Learning a language is an indispensable prerequisite for participating in both public and working life. Adult education, also in Germany, is currently facing a great challenge in the area of language teaching: In addition to language teaching for migrants and refugees, a key problem is the alphabetization of German and non-German speaking functional illiterates. This paper looks at the conditions for successful language learning by the adults here in focus in organized teaching and learning set…
Death is a central part of our lives, but coping mechanisms are oftentimes less than constructive. The author shows our problematic handling of death and our fear of death and argues that adult education can help facilitate a more productive way of dealing with death and our mortality.
Family education is at the crossroads of adult education and social work. This article outlines the resulting conflict situations as well as the opportunities, which arise as a consequence of the mutual complement of both fields to a compatible system of family work.
Die Textsammlung vermittelt einen biografieorientierten Rückblick auf über 40 Jahre Erwachsenenbildung. Die Beiträge aus den Jahren 1972 bis 2016 beziehen sich auf bildungspolitische und lerntheoretische Aspekte aus Theorie und Praxis. Themen wie Finanzierung, Curriculumentwicklung, Bildungsforschung und Evaluierung werden ebenso behandelt wie Bildung für Migranten, Dropout oder Museumsbildung. Jeder Text spiegelt die persönliche Position des Autors, ermöglicht aber auch einen Blick auf die his…
Although adult educators are inevitably confronted with ethical problems in their work, they have not yet developed a code of professional ethics to guide them and justify their actions both to themselves and others. One possible strategy to intensify the discourse on professional ethics, the author suggests, may be to interlink the debates on professional ethics and professionalisation.
The main emphasis of this article is on how to deal with value conflicts in teaching/learning situations in adult and continuing education against the backdrop of current social challenges. Based on the description and interpretation of a case study from an integration course, the author suggests possibilities of how to prepare teachers for acting in a pedagogically appropriate and ethical manner.
An Austrian study analysed the situation of staff with a migration history within the field of adult education. This article examines barriers and enabling conditions concerning the access to the profession and asks for the use of potential of migration biographies for activities in adult education – considering the part of professionals as well as institutions.
