Critical adult education Adult education in the horizon of contemporary societal criticism The essay contacts basic lines of the early critical theory in order to connect it with power analytical surveys on neoliberal restructuring of education. Foucaults analytics of power serves as a guide to decipher the current self-organisation discourse in adult education as part of a power-knowledge-complex. Thereby the present reform strategies manifest themselves as gouvernemental arrangements for …
Ist die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe behinderter Menschen durch Bildung schon verwirklicht, und wenn ja, wie weit? Dies ist eine Hauptfragestellung der Ausgabe 4/2003, das anlässlich des „Europäischen Jahres der Menschen mit Behinderungen“ erschienen ist. Im Gespräch mit Dr. Peter Radtke – Schauspieler, Geschäftsführer der „AG Behinderung und Medien e.V.“, ehem. VHS-Fachgebietsleiter und selber durch die Glasknochenkrankheit behindert – geht es u.a. um die Zielgruppe „Behinderte“ in der Erwachsen…
This article presents the results of an empirical research project in which participants in continuing education and employees were surveyed about their learning times. The survey indicated that (1) continuing education is co-financed on a large scale through the devotion of private time. (2) Individuals show flexibility and commitment in creating their own learning and continuing education times. (3) Times can no longer be clearly assigned to “learning” and “working” even from a subjective poi…
Unter den Gesichtspunkten der wissenschaftlichen Verarbeitung, der Interaktion, der Bildungsintentionen und -interessen und der didaktischen Kooperation wird die Problemsituation von Theorie und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung diskutiert.
Political education as a par t of general adult and continuing education with regards to lifelong learning and on the background of social change, is confronted with a new challenge. Science, economics, representatives responsible for education and learning of adults and politics are looking for instruments to navigate the consequences of globalization. – The author focusses – besides social questions of inequality – problems of cultural identity as one of these consequences and identifies lear…
In the view of cultural history, andragogy precedes pedagogy. The task of the andragogy is the social distribution of cultural innovations. The passing on of such innovation to the following generation is the task of pedagogy. Andragogy and pedagogy have been carried out over thousands of years in the mode of informal learning. With the dawn of literacy, formal learning emerges which then institutionalizes forms of schooling for the young generations. Institutions for andragogical formal learni…
