Traditionally, adult foreign language learning is an issue of foreign and second language acquisition research. This book advocates increased adult educational research in this particular field of practice, which is presented in a detailed overview of theories and concepts, research, statistics, teaching-learning approaches and recommendations. Case studies demonstrate how qualitative methods of programme analysis, video interaction research and biography analysis are used as approaches to adul…
This article presents the findings of a research project on structure and change in continuing education in Bremen, set out as a longitudinal analysis of selected years between 1979 and 2006. At the level of the continuing education system as a whole, the author identifies a certain structural stability evident from the fact that despite a growth in the number of market-oriented providers from 1996 to 2006, their competition – providers under public law – retained its structural influence on th…
Der Text stellt eine inhaltlich erweiterte Fassung der Studie "Unterstützung selbstgesteuerten Lernens in der Weiterbildung durch neue Medien" dar. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die begrifflich konzeptionelle Diskussion zum selbstgesteuerten Lernen.