Dargestellt und analysiert werden Ergebnisse der Evaluation eines norwegischen Reformprojekts zur Anerkennung informellen Lernens auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und seine Zukunftschancen.
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.
Wie kann Qualität von Educational Technology in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung bewertet werden? Der Autor plädiert für ein relationales Verständnis von Qualität und zeigt auf, wie Qualitätsaspekte der Bildungstechnologie in Qualitätsmanagementsystemen verhandelt werden können.
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.
“Bildung” and Biography in Self-organized Learning If subjects of learning are related to the learners thinking and acting in past or future, learning gains a biographic dimension. The notion of “bildung” can be attributed to a learning process, when frames of interpretation get transformed and re-arranged. The councelling of learning in a learning environment opens spaces, where learning processes like this can come true. This interrelation is examined in the contribution with an analysis o…
Education and occupation The categories of occupation and education were considered to constitute a contradiction in classic educational theory. A paradigm change is taking place through current societal modernisation processes: occupation and education are especially characterised by mutual interaction. This issue of the REPORT examines the tension-fraught relationship between occupation and education in articles offering theoretical and empirical insight, focusing on four focal points: the …
This article presents results of a field study exploring why illiterates start relearning reading and writing at a later age. The project SYLBE focused on reasons and obstacles of participants in basic education classes. The study provides a typology of motivations for learning and thus supports the professional acting of teaching staff in basic education.
Movement shapes the brain: findings of brain research bearing relevance to learning This article provides an overview of what influence athletics and movement has on brain processes. Based on several studies, it is shown that various forms of movement cause numerous types of adaptation at the cellular, molecular and neurochemical level which influence emotional, social and cognitive processes. It is also noted that by the same token there are gradual differences in these factors at various a…
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
