Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
Going on from the report year 1 (http://www.die-bonn.de/esprid/dokumente/doc-2000/gnahs00_01.pdf) which offered a compilation of data accessible in internet, a discussion of case studies Finland and Switzerland and a suggestion of a ‘minimal’ data collection plan, in the report year 2 an overview of official (governmental) and institutional (providers) surveys on adult education is given. The design of a survey on experts from the national statistical offices is explained and the unexpected sma…
From the viewpoint of Akademie Remscheid, a leading provider of further education courses involving education through play, this article presents the facets of the phenomenon of play as relevant to education and illustrates them using several examples of play that can be applied to adult education. The focus is on group games which can be played using simple materials. The central fields of learning targeted by play are identified as social skills, perception, expression, creativity and problem…
Vorgestellt werden die Ergebnisse eines SOKRATES- Projekts über europaweit existierende Möglichkeiten zur Akkreditierung schon vorhandenen Erfahrungswissens für einen Hochschulzugang. Besonders hervorgehoben wird das bislang weitgehend ungenutzte Potential dieser Zugangsmöglichkeit zum Studium.
Receptive or hostile to continuing education? Course tutors caught between the pressure to conform and resistance This article presents the results of a qualitative dissertation. The author has investigated the acceptance of adult education teacher training courses among part-time and freelance teachers based on the example of the initial adult education teacher training qualification offered by the North Rhine Westphalia VHS (adult education centre) regional association. For the issue of a…
Welche praktischen Probleme ergeben sich bei der Anwendung der Lebensweltorientierung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung – und welche Deutungsmöglichkeiten bietet die Literatur? Hierzu beleuchtet der Autor zentrale Passagen eines Originaltextes der phänomenologischen Soziologie zur »Lebenswelt« (Schütz & Luckmann, 1975) sowie ihrer Rezeption durch einen Protagonisten der Erwachsenenbildungsforschung (Wittpoth, 2014).
