Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
„Alterung“ und „Schrumpfung“ lauten die Hiobsbotschaften des demografischen Wandels. Dass die heraufbeschworenen Probleme nicht zwangsläufig in die Katastrophe führen, zeigt Karl Otto Hondrich in seinem vielbeachteten Buch »Weniger sind mehr«. Diese eher konstruktive Haltung hat sich die Redaktion zu Eigen gemacht und nach möglichen Strategien im Umgang mit den anstehenden Herausforderungen gefragt. Antworten der Betriebe, der kommunalen Weiterbildungseinrichtungen und der Weiterbildungsadminis…
The field of education policy, in particular adult education policy, is gaining importance in recent international-comparative research on education and adult education. In comparative politics, education policy is also a young but increasingly established issue. The close connection of education policy to the discipline of comparative politics, as well as theories used in that discipline, provide a well-founded research approach on education policy, which should be considered by international-…
Analytical competency in classroom situations can be seen as a crucial aspect of teachers' professional competency. While case-based learning is considered to have great potential for teacher education, particularly with respect to the promotion of teachers' analytical skills, there have been very few attempts to investigate the effects of corresponding instructional support. The present empirical study investigated the effects of instructional support in the form of multiple perspectives (i.e.…
