Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
Der REPORT berichtet über Frauenbildung und Frauenarbeit aus zwei Perspektiven. Die Texte beleuchten die Inhalte von Erwachsenenbildung, die für Frauen gedacht sind, und sie berichten aus der Perspektive der Frauen, die in der Erwachsenenbildung beschäftigt sind.
Education for elderly people has continuously increased in significance against the background of demographic developments. Primarily the group of the “young old“ has been in the centre of scientific exploration and practical educational work. For a long time the theme old age has been shielded. The author shows development lines and blind spots of old age research and old age education and pleads for a re-orientation of the educational approach in the context of relatives care. Thereby she foc…
Die historische Entwicklung der Islamischen Frauenbildung ist bis heute weitgehend ungeklärt. Zum Teil liegt dies in der fehlenden schriftlichen Überlieferungen von Selbstaussagen von Frauen und der erdrückenden Dominanz der männlichen Perspektiven begründet. Zwei trotzdem bekannte Beispiele sollen hier aufgeführt werden.
There are voices at the political level, which call for a relocating of finances into sections of early education. This article demonstrates the high relevance of public stimuli in opposition to such claims. Therefore, results of the Brandenburg-Study will be presented, in which the usage of continuous training vouchers have been quantitatively and qualitatively researched. It will be demonstrated how in specific vocational and private phases within the lives of women in health and social secto…
Der österreichische Nationalökonom und Wissenschaftstheoretiker Otto Neurath ist insbesondere durch seine Arbeiten an bildpädagogischen Visualisierungen von Wissen und Wissenschaft bekannt geworden. Sie sind bekannt als Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik bzw. später Isotype („International System of Typographic Picture Education“).
Popular education refers to education for, by, and with, the people. In using examples from the pro refugee movement in his article, the author outlines how this concept supports practice and research to improve the reflection of effects and effectivity of actions in civic organisations.
