Looking at persons and at those active in organisations has forever been in the focus of psychological research on organisations. Monika Kil draws attention to the fact that pedagogical psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology can also contribute towards a structuring of further education institutions that is conducive to learning. Developing a »learning culture « is one aspect of this. A review of further developments and findings opens up new dimensions for a discourse on organi…
Political education as a par t of general adult and continuing education with regards to lifelong learning and on the background of social change, is confronted with a new challenge. Science, economics, representatives responsible for education and learning of adults and politics are looking for instruments to navigate the consequences of globalization. – The author focusses – besides social questions of inequality – problems of cultural identity as one of these consequences and identifies lear…
Wertedebatten sind immer schwierig. Sie stehen traditionell im Verdacht, eine übergeordnete Orientierung des Handelns restaurieren zu wollen, wo Wirklichkeit unübersichtlich geworden ist. Das Heft versucht ohne moralischen Zeigefinger auszukommen und beschreitet hierzu zwei Wege: Es untersucht erstens Prozesse der berufsethischen Vergewisserung der Erwachsenenbildung und ihre kodifizierten Manifestationen, z.B. Leitbilder. Zweitens versucht es ethischen Konflikten in der Erwachsenenpädagogische…
Die Lehr-/Lernforschung in der Weiterbildung hat sich lange Zeit auf die sozialen und biografischen Voraussetzungen und Rahmungen Lebenslangen Lernens konzentriert. Demgegenüber fanden die Lehr- und Lernprozesse in Veranstaltungen der Erwachsenenbildung vergleichsweise wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Das Gleiche galt für deren Wirkungen, sowohl im Blick auf Lernzuwächse und Interessen als auch auf ihren Transfer in den Lebens- und Arbeitsalltag der Teilnehmenden. Dies änderte sich jedoch im Laufe der let…
Voluntary work 2.0? Media-related conditions for voluntary work in the Internet A participation culture has developed in the Internet which is broadly discussed under the rubric of “Web 2.0” and which is explored in this article to determine the principles of voluntary work operating here. To this end the author first forwards a definition of voluntary work in “offline” reality before examining the communications-related conditions prevailing in the Internet upon which a conception of volun…
The following report focuses on the issue of recording the impact of learning in adult and continuing education. It depicts the complexity of empirical-analytical impact and sensitizes for a differentiated access of adult educational research, based on the demand for evidence-based practice and education policy, which increases the pressure to conduct research on valid data on the impact of educational activities. This is substantiated, inter alia, due to the complex topic and the particulariti…
The article presents the European development of new learning centres as well as educational and cultural centres, in which adult education institutions and libraries continue to merge. The author depicts three examples of these new institutions, which are increasingly becoming an element of educational urban development.
