Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
Konfuzius war Gelehrter und Begründer des Konfuzianismus, Erziehungsphilosoph und Lehrer. Dem lebenslangen Lernen kommt nach Konfuzius ein zentraler Stellenwert zu. Nach ihm macht erst das Lernen den Menschen zum Menschen.
Validierung wird als eine intermittierend angelegte Selbstvergewisserung im Verlauf lebenslanger Bildung verstanden, die jetzt schon im Kontext informeller Anerkennung praktiziert wird. Der anerkennungstheoretische Diskurs bietet wichtige Anregungen, in welchem pädagogischen Aufgabenverständnis sich Erwachsenenbildung für dieses Erfordernis zuständig erklären sollte. Perspektivisch kann Validierung zu einer intermediären Struktur in einem integrierten Gesamtbildungssystems entwickelt werden.
Within the field of adult education/continuing education the topic counselling occupies a central role. This concerns the theoretical discourses as well as the different types of offers. This study book situates the topic counselling in its pedagogical reference framework and provides central lines of development and differentiation. These include questions about the interaction, the forms of action and the conditions of good consultation. Moreover different forms of educational guidance are ou…
This article discusses the question how knowledge may be used for new or alternative learning decisions and in how far the post-modern understanding of “knowledge” is involved in this process. More precisely, it is discussed how organisations and individuals use knowledge as a result of learning in general and with respect to continuing learning decisions and how expectations and evaluations regarding the use of continuing education are placed in cultures of learning. The argument is based on l…
Due to the increasing blur of learning boundaries, the need arises for re-defining the concept of learning space. Based on an understanding of learning space, which refers to the local circumstances within organized education programs, the article initially aspires to include the debate on learning space in the discussion of informal learning, before it then focuses on the relation between time and location and the significance of virtual learning spaces. The article itself does not re-define t…
