Der Sammelband fokussiert verlassene Orte der Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland und Kanada. Damit wird zum disziplinären Gedächtnis beigetragen und zukunftsorientiert analytisch nachgefragt, was man von diesen Orten und ihrem Schicksal für heute lernen kann. This volume focuses on abandoned places of adult education in Germany and Canada. The chapters contribute to keeping the memory of the discipline alive and explore what we can learn from the fate of these places for the future.
This book is a unique approach in relating mutually international and comparative research from scholars on program planning for adults. Program planning is about needs, finding topics, making offers and bundling different contents. It makes organizations of adult education visible and contributes to their existence and is therefore a core activity of the professionals in adult education. The volume originates from an international conference hosted by Leibniz-University Hannover, which was organized by a plural expert group with key actors at Humboldt-University Berlin and the German Institute for Adult Education. The authors demonstrate the unique research method program analysis and present archives which offer an established infrastructure for heterogeneous research questions.
Change and transition are prominent buzzwords in the discourse upon adult education. International conferences like the European ESREA triennial research conference 2013 in Berlin focused on these terms. But is to deal with change and transitions really something new for adult education? What is new? What has changed? Which kind of transitions do we experience and how can we systematically observe and analyse them as researchers nowadays? This anthology wants to stimulate an exchange beyond buzzwords and European perspectives and investigate what these terms could mean for research in terms of institutionalisation and professionalization in adult education in different national contexts. Therefore, distinguished scholars were invited to contribute to this anthology.