Im Herbst 2009 jährt sich der Mauerfall und damit die Auflösung der Machtblöcke von Ost und West zum zwanzigsten Mal. Die Transformation der postsozialistischen Welt ist seither in vollem Gange und die Weiterbildung unterschiedlich involviert. Im Heft stehen vor allem die Prozesse eines Transfers von Strukturen und Konzepten der Weiterbildung im Fokus. Auf der Einbahnstraße der nachholenden Modernisierung mussten dabei Unfälle passieren (so erging es etwa der ersten Programmgeneration von QUE…
This article explains what paths adults can opt for in order to acquire a reflexive understanding of time while not being content with a purely goal-oriented, “maximising” improvement in time management. Ms. Hribernik adopts Holzkamp’s approach to first of all describe what such “learning to understand time“ needs to involve before then identifying learning possibilities from an Austrian perspective – possibilities which she sees above all in books, but also in lecture events and the activities…
In a small “philosophy story of joy“, the author bends a bow from Aristotle across Kant to utilitarianism. Aristotle had defined joy as that, where a person finds himself. Kant on the other hand accents, that a person can only be satisfied with himself who lives in unison with his moral beliefs. With the utilitarian the author retains: “It is not questionable, whether we are all strive for joy, but what joy is.“ Here the task of (adult) education affiliates: It must first enable people to judge…
Ein kurzer Überblick über die für die Weiterbildung relevanten Rechtsnormen.
Adult pedagogical responsibility in the interpretation and explanation of empirical results for knowledge-based education needs analysis Education needs analyses often appear in a picture of the "comparison" of definable desired value and measured actual value. Thereby mostly the impression of deficits arise. Depending on the arrangement of a needs analysis, therewith in a special way questions are posed concerning the processing and application of the empirical data material, especially w…
