International stimuli. More than 25 years of literacy and basic education A look back at the history of literacy discussions as a debate starting in the 1970s and heavily influenced by international organisations. The urgency of the subject is demonstrated at the start by international figures on the extent of illiteracy. The author sees today’s questions and issues as rooted in the 1980s and 1990s; in his overview of the German government's current funding focus he points out that there is…
From the “Göttinger 18” in the “Wyhler Wald”. The learning movement of a social movement beginning in 1957. 18 German nuclear physicists signed a declaration in 1957 in which they refused to take part in the production, testing and use of nuclear weapons. This “Göttinger Declaration” was the beginning of the anti-atomic energy movement, which subsequently developed into a self-organised educational scene. One symbol of this is the Wyhler Wald Adult Education Centre in Baden, which the article …
Der vorliegende Beitrag rekonstruiert die anthropologische Perspektive in der Erwachsenenbildung beginnend von der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch die erwachsenenbildnerische Profilierung der Menschenbildthematik wird erstens ein Aufschluss über die Disziplingeschichte gewonnen. Zweitens geht es um die Vergewisserung der Vorstellungen vom Adressaten in der Erwachsenenbildung. An die inhaltsanalytischen Auslegungen ausgewählter Texte knüpfen perspektivische Überlegungen zur zukünftige…
