Working biographies today do not last for life. The author describes the concepts of labour entrepreneur as a new type of labour which means that employees put their competence to the market. Characteristics of the labour entrepreneur is responsibilityfor the organisation and the marketing of one’s own competence. As a consequence in adult education didactical and methodical concepts for the interpretation and self-reflection of one’s own biography have to be developed.
Analytical competency in classroom situations can be seen as a crucial aspect of teachers' professional competency. While case-based learning is considered to have great potential for teacher education, particularly with respect to the promotion of teachers' analytical skills, there have been very few attempts to investigate the effects of corresponding instructional support. The present empirical study investigated the effects of instructional support in the form of multiple perspectives (i.e.…
Implementing network type structures has become a widely appreciated strategy to promote actor-relationships in the field of adult and community education and to coordinate them purposefully. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on how a “successful” coordination of actor-relationships can be practically achieved. This paper offers some clues to answering the question by outlining basic characteristics of social networks and then giving reference to a recent case study from Germany.
Der Autor greift die Kritik am interkulturellen Paradigma auf und schlägt für eine zeitgemäße Konzeption interkultureller Bildung vor, praxistheoretische Ansätze und Theorien transformatorischer Bildung miteinander zu verknüpfen. »Inter-kulturelles« Agieren und die damit verbundene grundlegende Erfahrung des Fremden können Veränderungen der Selbst-, Anderen- und Weltverhältnisse nach sich ziehen und damit als Bildungsanlass fungieren.
Karl Benjamin Preusker (1786-1871) war ein bedeutender Vordenker und Wegbereiter des öffentlichen Bibliothekswesens in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. 1828 gründete er die erste deutsche Stadtbibliothek in Großenhain. Lebenspraktische Wissensvermittlung, heimatkundliche Kenntnisse, Gemeinwohlorientierung und Hilfe zur Selbstbildung waren zentrale Bestandteile seines Volksbildungsbegriffs. Die bildungsreformerischen Bemühungen von K.B. Preusker fanden in seinen späteren Jahren auch öffen…
Following Piaget and recent research on psychodynamics, the author establishes theses on distinctively suitable adult learning. She recapitulates essential theses from her book »Zur Konstruktion des Erwachsenen« (On the Structure of Adults) and refines them with regard to autonomy as a learning incentive. The author believes that learning processes, which are characteristic for adults, occur mainly when old structures are overcome and learning procedures are modified. The learning incentive is…
In developing learning arrangements, adult educators can influence decisions in learning/teaching situations, improve learning effective decisions of learners and therefore enhance the range of opportunities. All aspirations enforcing attitude alterations on learners are unacceptable. Learners should preferably judge the effectiveness of their decisions in alignment with their individual standards. This report indicates methods of controlling learning-effective decisions without limiting the ra…
Movement and experience as the breeding ground of learning From the perspective of experiential pedagogic the two authors develop an outline for experience and action-oriented practice in adult education. They examine in detail the hypotheses confirmed by brain research that the body is the actual site of human learning. This allows them to create the basis for a didactical setting conducive to learning which is heavily based on physical body-related experience in nature and in the communit…
Temporalized “Bildungsgestalten” (educational formations) – The formation of the subject in the context of Lifelong Learning The article outlines the reference framework of an ongoing DFG-financed research project. Based on theoretical assumptions which rest upon German Bildungstheorie the project analyses Lifelong Learning as a special mode of the formation of subjects. The projects’ core research concept, which brings into focus the importance of education for the formation of the subjec…
