Die Corona-Pandemie hat die Digitalisierung der Bildung vorangetrieben – mit unterschiedlichen Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen Bildungsbereiche und Einrichtungstypen. Am Beispiel der kommunal verankerten Volkshochschulen diskutiert die Autorin die Gefahren einer Plattform-Ökonomie in der Bildung und fragt nach alternativen Antworten für die Entgrenzungen, die mit der Digitalisierung einhergehen.
Während des Corona-bedingten Lockdowns stellten Einrichtungen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung ihr Programm, soweit möglich, auf Online-Veranstaltungen um. Welches sind die Erfahrungen mit dieser ad-hoc-Digitalisierung? Die Autorinnen analysieren ihre Eindrücke aus Erfahrungsberichten und Einzelgesprächen.
This article is concerned with the discourse and policy of lifelong learning in Europe after 1973. It deals with the question whether the 1980s have to be seen as a period of diminishing interest in lifelong learning or as a formative phase of so called neoliberalism. Applying a corpus lingustic approach, it analyses the official documents of the European Communities as archived in the database EUR-Lex. The results are interpreted as the expression of a new European governance regime called “te…
Die Lesegesellschaft ist eine Organisationsform literarisch interessierter Bürger im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert. Sie kann als eine frühe Form der Erwachsenenbildung gesehen werden. Trägergruppe der Vereine war das Bürgertum. Bis zu 600 Lesegesellschaften mit 50.000 Mitgliedern werden für den Zeitraum von 1780 bis 1848 in Deutschland angenommen. Der idealtypische Aufbau umfasste: Bibliothek mit Ausrichtung auf aktuelle Literatur und Periodika, Zeitschriften und Zeitungen; Leseräume mit festen Öffnu…
Current political strategy to reform career guidance systems in Europe is regulated by subtle practices. Using the governmentality perspective, the purpose of this article is to make sense, in theoretical terms, of governmental reason and mechanisms in reshaping of career guidance systems. The investigation draws attention to mechanisms and practices such as monitoring and evaluation which indirectly operate in the policy process to make career guidance systems amenable for management. Drawing …
This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…
Weaving the ‘carpet of memories’: a zigzag movement between association and knowledge This article presents a didactical strategy in the form of »zigzag learning« which works on the basis of a constant linkage between free associative learning elements (sporadic learning) with a logically structured content (systematic learning). A »carpet of memory« is woven in this zigzag movement which is propitious for learning efficacy. The strategy is presented using an example from school biology cla…
Equality of professional and academic education? Results of comparisons according to the “Oldenburger Anrechnungsmodell” It is intended to strengthen the permeability of the educational system by taking into account professional qualifications for academic studies. The article describes an appropriate instrument, developed as a model project, to measure levels of learning units which is being used for comparisons between professional and academic qualifications.
