Differentiating ageing and old age it is argued that a separate life stage “old age” is to be understood as a social construction. Ageing must not be conceptualized as a uniform and unidirectional process. Instead, physiological-biological, psychological, and social ageing are somehow independent processes following different developmental curves. Focussing on old age as a whole makes clear that gains as well as losses are characteristic for this life stage. Both aspects should be incorporated …
Have the European football competitions fostered a European consciousness and European identity? There are unmistakable parallels between the political and economic integration of Europe and the history of European football competitions, but these do not suffice to answer this question in the affirmative. In the run-up to the World Cup, whose slogan is “A Time to Make Friends”, the author discusses integration issues emanating from the naturalisation tests of Federal German Länder from an educa…
This article discusses the Federal German “Orientation course“ and different prototypes for “naturalisation tests“ in the German Länder in the context of comparative integration policy. Integration courses and naturalisation tests have at the same time become a policy tool for promoting integration in a targeted manner in various countries which attract immigration. Following a presentation of the context and the presentation of instruction material in the orientation courses, the authors inter…
This article presents the programme “Football for development”, which like the other ASA programmes of InWEnt allows young adults to take part in development policy educational work in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Southeast Europe for three months. The projects establish a regional educational and cultural programme using people’s love of football. At the same time, the participants from Germany develop an appreciation for experience from the “South”, helping dispel the traditional image of …
This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.
This article focuses on the example of amateur football to explore the connection between institutional educational socialisation, athletic prowess and habitual educational processes. Involvement in upper-level secondary educational requirements helps create a personality structure which generally speaking is marked by a positive attitude towards performance and which creates a positive linkage between the personal skills acquired and recognition afforded in the educational process in specific …
