This article regards the publication of a text-foto-volume on the 100-year-history of the German Volkshochschule as an impulse for a possible innovation of writing history of adult education. First, the methodological principles of a both empirical and narrative historiography and its terminology will be described. Departing from a pragmatic moral intention of the book to present an affirmative history of the Volkshochschule, the article suggests a historical-normative historiography. Thereafte…
Für jedes gesellschaftliche Handlungsfeld gibt es ein Bildgedächtnis, das einen emotional-affektiven, also nicht-rationalen Zugang zu eben diesem Feld bietet. Wie steht es um das Bildgedächtnis der Erwachsenenbildung? Gibt es vielleicht, wenn nicht Bilder, dann bestimmte Motive, die repräsentativ für die Erwachsenenbildung sind?
The Northrhine-Westphalian labour ministry, in a research project carried out by the Landesinstitut für Qualifikation (State’s Institute for Qualification) in Soest, investigated what possible contribution to immigrant integration might be expected from the State’s institutions of further education. The results, laid down in the study „The contribution of further education twoards the integration of immigrants”, look like a list of shortcomings: insufficient data, an unclear market structure, a…
"Further education for all" as a theory problem On pedagogy and its partial areas The policy metaphor "further education for all" poses a challenge for further education processes in adult education and the special education. It puts aspects of disability and disadvantage from the edge into the centre of the theory problems. The question is how further education and special education (can) deal with the altered public problem horizon. It is analysed how the two pedagogical partial areas cho…
The book presents a variety of concepts and experiences on how the roots and past of organizations can be looked at by employing a number of methodological approaches as well as ways and means to celebrate jubilees of adult education and community learning centers and their associations. It is meant for professionals leading such centers and those who are responsible for public relations, information and communication, and event management. The book starts off by explaining the terminology and …
This report from England is part of a research project entitled Literacy/Basic Education – State of the Art from a historical and systematic Perspective in terms of Transferability. It focuses on the way adult (il)literacy has been approached, dealt with, discussed and analysed both politically and scientifically in England. It provides a historical overview on government strategy papers and outlines central ideas in theoretical discussions regarding literacy and literacy practices. However, in…
Museen sind Aufbewahrungsorte und Fundgruben für die materielle Kultur von Ländern, Schichten und Zeiten. Sie sind Orte gemeinsamer Erinnerung und Vergangenheit, die heute mehr denn je den Anspruch erheben, nicht nur Orte zu sein, in denen man seine Freizeit verbringt, sondern Stätten für Begegnung und kommunikative Auseinandersetzung. Andererseits sind Museen zunehmend in der Krise: Sinkende Besucherzahlen und Budgetkürzungen zeigen, daß sie sich ebenso wie etwa die Einrichtungen der Erwachsen…
