Following Piaget and recent research on psychodynamics, the author establishes theses on distinctively suitable adult learning. She recapitulates essential theses from her book »Zur Konstruktion des Erwachsenen« (On the Structure of Adults) and refines them with regard to autonomy as a learning incentive. The author believes that learning processes, which are characteristic for adults, occur mainly when old structures are overcome and learning procedures are modified. The learning incentive is…
Tangled up in learning stories On the basis of the film „Entre of les Murs“ of Laurent Cantet education processes are described as integral aspects of the subjective relationship to the life-world of humans. The consequences for adult education are to generate more exact and up-to-date knowledge about the achievements of the subjects, in which they transform the social requirements into their own learning projects.
„Learn habitus“ has its roots in the concept of habitus by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According to Bourdieu the „habitus“ is represented in the whole of all signs of life, i.e. the daily routine, job, clothes, behaviour, taste, value judgement, in which a person is bedded and which has become the person’s second nature. If our behaviour can be understood as ways of expressing the habits, so can be the way we learn. The learn habitus represents the whole of the learning disposition …
In developing learning arrangements, adult educators can influence decisions in learning/teaching situations, improve learning effective decisions of learners and therefore enhance the range of opportunities. All aspirations enforcing attitude alterations on learners are unacceptable. Learners should preferably judge the effectiveness of their decisions in alignment with their individual standards. This report indicates methods of controlling learning-effective decisions without limiting the ra…
Der Beitrag stellt die Entstehungsgeschichte des Konzepts der Community of Practice dar und erläutert grundlegende Elemente einer praktischen Modellierung einer Community of Practice. Der Text geht ausführlich auf die vergemeinschaftete Wissensgenerierung ein. Er zeigt, wie sich diese durch eine ‚Praxis des Teilhabens’ herausbildet und macht deutlich, dass diese Praxis keine formale Struktur aufweist und auch nicht von außen formalisiert und gesteuert werden kann. Als eine sich selbst organis…
Unlearning has been established as a phenomenon in common parlance, but has been neglected by educational science so far. Very few authors use the term “unlearning”, even rarer is a clear, precise and sophisticated definition. This article starts with the dilemmata appearing when using the term as a category of analysis in empirical studies. The critical re-analysis of one of these studies yet evokes a work programme designed to explore the phenomena of unlearning. As a first step, this article…
Movement and experience as the breeding ground of learning From the perspective of experiential pedagogic the two authors develop an outline for experience and action-oriented practice in adult education. They examine in detail the hypotheses confirmed by brain research that the body is the actual site of human learning. This allows them to create the basis for a didactical setting conducive to learning which is heavily based on physical body-related experience in nature and in the communit…
Aus der Lernforschung wissen wir: Das Erlernen komplexer geistiger Prozesse bildet das Gehirn anhand von Strategien nach, die es beim Erlernen motorischer Prozesse erfolgreich verankern konnte. Oder anders: Wer gut jongliert, hat gute Chancen, Projekte erfolgreich zu steuern. Doch dies ist nicht der einzige Zusammenhang von Lernen und Bewegung. Im Heft erwarten Sie Lern-Perspektiven der Neurowissenschaften und der Erlebnispädagogik, die auf körperlicher Bewegung gründen. Daneben darf es aber a…
