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…
Citizens’ involvement increasingly gains appreciation in the public perception. Also in the adult pedagogical discourse the attention is raised in the context of lifelong learning. In this contribution the author discusses how learning processes in adult education, that take place in a societal action context, can be supported, guided or even initiated. On the basis of own empirical inquiries the author examines citizens’ involvement as an action- and learning field and asks for learning experi…
In der Welt des Zauberlehrlings Harry Potter sind »Muggles« diejenigen Menschen, die sich mit der Zauberkraft kein bisschen auskennen. Das Bild lässt sich auf die »digital divided« Geellschaft übertragen. Sind ältere Erwachsene die »Muggles« des Digitalzeitalters? Hugger hat die Auswirkungen der Neuen Medien auf ältere Erwachsene als Mitautor der „Treumann-Studie" empirisch untersucht und um Überlegungen zu notwendigen Forschungsaspekten und praktischen Handlungsstrategien für die Bildungsarbei…
In verschiedenen Beiträgen wird die Vielschichtigkeit der Perspektiven zur Bildung Älterer diskutiert.
Unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Älterwerdens lauten die zentralen Fragen in diesen Beiträgen: Wie findet die Transformation von Wissenschaft in die Berufswelt statt, welche Probleme treten auf und wie kann gemeinsam reflektiert werden?
The textbook provides an introduction to the field of education of older adults and lifelong learning. Coming from an interdisciplinary field of research related to ageing, learning abilities and learning needs of older adults are discussed. Additionally, adequate forms of learning and educational arrangements are presented. A special focus lies upon the correlation between competencies and age, taking into account diverse living conditions and biographies. Thus, the textbook offers impulses to…
The research project KLASSIK examines the question of whether it is possible to increase competencies for information processing skills of older people. To this end, training courses that serve as experimental groups, performed a special, metacognitive thinking training. In the project also included comparison groups received no training. Before the treatment a performance test and an intelligence test ensure that both groups come from the same starting conditions. After the final test an appro…
The study Competencies in Later Life (CiLL) provides for the first time representative data regarding the competencies of older people between the age of 66 to 80 years in three different domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It is shown that there are significant differences between people with different qualification, but also between people of different birth cohorts. Despite major qualification differences between men and women, there are no signi…
