Konzeption und Durchführung von Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen basieren immer auch auf bestimmten, meist impliziten Annahmen und subjektiven Theorien. Neben dem professionellen Selbstverständnis der Lehrenden, der Sicht auf die Teilnehmenden und auf die Prozesse des Lehrens und Lernens spielen dabei auch die Vorstellungen über das Wissen, das vermittelt werden soll, eine bedeutende Rolle. Auf der Basis einer Interviewstudie arbeitet die Autorin diese Grundlagen des Unterrichtens heraus und en…
In the context of lifelong learning, adults are increasingly being viewed from a biographical perspective. This article takes a look at how differently – and in some cases inconsistently – adults are construed as biographical subjects in education policy, in educational practice, and in research on adult education. It argues that to even begin to examine the processes and practices of biographical subjectification that take place in adult and continuing education, biographical research must be …
Large parts of adult education are not being reached through relevant laws at all anymore. Thus a factual deregulation is the consequence. This loss of scope faces a growing provision profundity of those laws thar are tangent to the adult education area and that have been revised lately. The author draws attention to this ambivalent context by means of the most important legal basis of adult education: the adult education laws of the German states and the social statute book III (SGB III).
Adult education increasingly occupies the center of education policy and hence the corresponding governance aspirations on the national, supra- and international level. Large-scale-assessment studies, like PIAAC, further raised public attention for adult education with a focus on the low educated. This study analyzes overall and spatial participation in adult education in the national context using multi-level modeling. Using data from the European Labour Force Survey 2013 it shows that (1) the…
This study explores the definition of „adult basic education“ from the perspective of public education administration of the German Laender. On the one hand, adult basic education is claimed as a public good that has to be made accessible by public funding. One the other hand, there is still no agreement on the definition of adult basic education. Based on a subject-scientific approach, qualitative interviews are conducted with administrative employees in order to explore dimensions and justifi…
Despite a relatively similar education system, the way how people can get a qualification for adult and continuing education is different in Germany and Switzerland. Germany has established an academic track within educational sciences with the focus on planning and management. Switzerland follows a vocational track with a basic qualification for teaching adults that could be extended by qualifications within the vocational system for positions in planning and management. This paper analyses th…
Participants related and milieu related aspects of participation in adult education It is assumed that the participants quotas, participants interests and participants motivation do not only differ regarding the central sociodemografic features but also differ strongly with regard to the respective milieu affiliation. Theoretically the milieu studies add on to the traditional pilot studies of adult education (cp. Strzelewicz among others 1966) and the differentiating analyses of the modern r…
Bezugnehmend auf das Gustav Radbruchs Konzept des sozialen Rechtsstaates, das in verschiedenen Facetten der Weimarer Republik vorgestellt wird, plädiert der Autor dafür, dass sich auch die heutigen Vertreter der Erwachsenenbildung¤Bezugnehmend auf das Gustav Radbruchs Konzept des sozialen Rechtsstaates, das in verschiedenen Facetten der Weimarer Republik vorgestellt wird, plädiert der Autor dafür, dass sich auch die heutigen Vertreter der Erwachsenenbildung in diese Tradition stellen und a…
