The ability to analyze and understand classroom situations through the eyes of not only teachers but also students can be seen as a crucial aspect of teachers’ professional competence. Even though video case-based learning is considered to have great potential for the promotion of analytical competence of teachers (i.e., becoming immersed in student and teacher perspectives as well as applying conceptual knowledge to better understand classroom situations), only a few studies have investigated …
While the calls to take more notice of the significance of migration for adult education are loud and clear, notably little attention is paid to them with regard to work on categories. In adult education, fundamental theoretical work on definitions of “migration” is still far from complete. Even though individual studies deal with the term, it seems that attempts to clarify categories remain scarce. If adult education research on migration has a genuine interest in examining the risks of the hi…
Das Heft bietet eine Vergewisserung über den Entwicklungsstand der Organisationsfrage im Weiterbildungsbereich. Hierzu wurden die Bezugswissenschaften der Erwachsenenbildung befragt: Aus Sicht der Pädagogik müssen Einrichtungen das Pädagogische in der Organisation stärker ausprägen (Schäffter). Die Soziologie füllt die Modewörter des Organisationsdiskurses (Kultur, System, Netzwerk) auf ihre Art trennscharf (Dollhausen). Zudem wird die Fülle der organisationspsychologischen Literatur für die We…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
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.
In the usually clearly word- and text-oriented research field of adult education, for a while now, approaches have been observed, which understand visual presentations as data to be analyzed in a methodically controlled way. These data are used in order to generate and substantiate knowledge about adult education, whereby intensity, contexts, theoretical background and methods or methodology are different. This article presents these approaches in the research fields focusing on students, progr…
Vocational adult education research Data situation, research questions and selected results Likewise the meaning of adult education the number of reseach works with this theme increase. Prerequisite for interpretation and classification of the present results of adult education research is the knowledge of the underlying sources of data and information. The text at hand gives an overview of the data situation in the area of vocational adult education whereas it features also company ques…
„Interkulturelle Öffnung“ zielt darauf ab, die Beteiligung von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund am Weiterbildungsangebot zu erhöhen. Eine exemplarische regionale Studie des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) im Auftrag der Kommunen Bremen und Bremerhaven liefert Einsichten über Beteiligung, Angebote und die Ansprache von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund sowie über die Planung von Angeboten in den Weiterbildungseinrichtungen. Im Folgenden werden die Ergebnisse der Studie unter …
