In this article, the dialogue between young and very old people is examined structurally and with regards to contents in the context of education and learning. Topics, interpretations and motivations are the factors which decide how educational and learning processes of different generations can be shaped and understood.
Cultural patterns characterize the architecture in which we live and learn. The article by Urs Maurer helps to discover these unconsciously perceived patterns as an architectural language and adopt it for educational building. It is based on the concept of architectural language being marked by polarities, particularly the antagonism between »death crystal« and »tree of life« coined by Ernst Bloch.
Voluntary work 2.0? Media-related conditions for voluntary work in the Internet A participation culture has developed in the Internet which is broadly discussed under the rubric of “Web 2.0” and which is explored in this article to determine the principles of voluntary work operating here. To this end the author first forwards a definition of voluntary work in “offline” reality before examining the communications-related conditions prevailing in the Internet upon which a conception of volun…
Dass jüngere und ältere Erwachsene gemeinsam an Bildungsveranstaltungen teilnehmen, ist in der Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung eher die Regel als die Ausnahme. Selten jedoch wird dabei explizit thematisiert, welche Besonderheiten die Altersheterogenität solcher Gruppen für das Lehren und Lernen – möglicherweise – mit sich bringt. Und das, obgleich bekanntermaßen Unterschiede in Lernleistung und -verhalten zwischen Jung und Alt bestehen. Wann also ist altersintegratives Lernen überhaupt sinnvoll, …
Jens Friebe beschreibt zunächst die demografische Alterung als zentralen Trend der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in Deutschland. Anschließend skizziert er die Herausforderungen, die auf die lebensbegleitende Weiterbildung zukommen werden, für deren Bewältigung aber auf fortbestehende Lernpotentiale im Alter zurückgegriffen werden kann. Auf diesen Grundlagen ergeben sich neue Aufgaben für die Forschung und Konzeptentwicklung in der Weiterbildung. Die Bestandsaufnahme wurde im Jahr 2008 akt…
People constitute learning places themselves when a relational room perspective is the starting point of their action. Room in the learning place company can be relationally structured by further education processes. Spacings, syntheses and the consequently following dynamisation of learning places open up possibilities which contribute to a reinforced exchange of experiences. Participants of further education positively evaluate this exchange of experiences because it takes place near the wor…
New accesses to further education and work by making up balances of competence? First answers from Europe and Germany Several developing practices of acquisition, evaluation and documentation of informal and formal competences are presented. In a second step the several practices are structured and the model of the bilans des competences from France and a German adaption is explained.
