Signposts of change in the landscape of adult basic education in Austria: a telling case

Cennamo, Irene; Kastner, Monika; Schlögl, Peter

doi:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9204

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“…This conceptualization, based on a practitioner/activist-driven, bottom-up approach, was adopted for the Initiative Erwachsenenbildung ( IEB ), the national ABE funding program implemented under the aegis of the Ministry of Education in 2012. In 2019, politically motivated ruptures in the national ABE field indicated a reversal towards feasibility and control of education, fitting the bigger picture of narrowing ABE to mere upskilling of human capital (Cennamo et al, 2020; Kastner & Motschilnig, 2022) and putting this unique type of ABE practice under pressure. When practitioners focused on the challenges they experienced, this major politically motivated disruption was at the forefront. Community-based adult learning (CBAL) in Scotland has a different focus from mainstream education in its underpinning ideology, methods, and curriculum.…”

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A Comparative Study of Values-Based Fields of Adult Learning and Education in Austria, Scotland, and South Tyrol, Italy: Practitioners Resisting Neoliberal Tendencies Based on Their Ideas of Social Justice

Cennamo

Kastner

Tett

2023

Adult Education Quarterly

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This article presents the findings of a comparative study of values-based adult learning and education (ALE) fields; specifically, in Austria, critical-emancipatory adult basic education; Scotland, learner-centered, community-based adult learning; and South Tyrol, Italy, the Winterschule, a radical-critical popular education format. We studied the voices of experienced practitioners to understand their challenges and constraints and how they resisted changes that did not reflect their values. It highlights local practices to promote visibility, create dialogue, and strengthen the understanding and recognition of these fields in which practitioners are unequivocally committed to social justice. Our findings highlighted repertoires of resistance, affirmed pedagogy as a values-based endeavor, and elucidated practitioners’ commitments to holistic approaches that re-negotiate ideas of social justice for people and the planet. Our analysis shows that when ideas of social justice are shared amongst allies, practitioners can effectively maintain their values-based approaches and thus re-affirm and protect democratic ALE practice.

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A Comparative Study of Values-Based Fields of Adult Learning and Education in Austria, Scotland, and South Tyrol, Italy: Practitioners Resisting Neoliberal Tendencies Based on Their Ideas of Social Justice

Cennamo

Kastner

Tett

2023

Adult Education Quarterly

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“…In addition, Knauber and Ioannidou (2016) reconstructed various governance structures in adult basic education and examined their effectiveness at the international level. For an analysis of politically motivated interventions in adult basic education at the national level in Austria, see Cennamo et al (2020). Research at the national level in Germany focused on the educational policy interests of actors in adult basic education (Euringer, 2016).…”

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Bickeböller

2023

RELA

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Using the perspective of neo-institutionalism and institutional logics, this article examines regional networks in the field of literacy and basic education. The goal of the analysis is to identify different forms of community-logics within two actor constellations. For this purpose, two regions are focused within a multiple-case study design. The empirical approach is based on interviews with experts from the field of literacy and basic education. The Interviews are evaluated qualitatively. The interview material will be used to identify different logics of communities in the regions and to examine the contexts in which actors orient themselves to the different logics. It becomes clear that communities in adult basic education are constituted on the basis of both geographical and content related aspects. By becoming a member of the communities, the actors benefit from various advantages. This collaboration ultimately enables the social participation and inclusion of the low-literate in the regions.

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“…Интересна успешная практика обучения взрослых в Нигерии [12] и Австрии [13]. E. A. Ajayi в качестве дидактического инструмента использует фольклорное пение африканских племен [12], а I. Cennamo, M. Kastner, P. Schlögl дают взрослым австрийцам начальные профессиональные знания и компетенции в сфере ландшафтного дизайна [13].…”

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Methodology for the organisation of professional training of senior citizens: general concept

Rezer

2021

Obraz. nauka

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Introduction. The process of population aging in modern civilisation is developing at an increasing pace. Russia has not remained aloof from this trend. Intense aging of the population will lead, in particular, to the fact that older people will become a necessary resource for the labour market as well as for the society activity at both macro- and micro-levels. Continuing active employment of senior citizens is a new challenge facing states.The aim of present conceptual article is to theoretically substantiate and to develop approaches for building a model for organisation of senior citizens' professional training (persons from 50 to 70 years old). This type of training requires to be based on andragogy and geronto-gogy principles and to be targeted at continuing of labour activity by this category of population through acquisition of new professional knowledge and competencies.Methodology and research methods. The current research is based on the methodology of system-based analysis of theoretical sources, foreign and Russian pedagogical experience. Interdisciplinary and complex approaches were used to build the concept of the model to organise professional training of senior citizens.Results and scientific novelty. The obtained results allowed the author to conclude that at present stage of the Russian state and Russian society development, there is a need for scientific interdisciplinary knowledge, which substantiates the principles and didactic support of professional training of senior citizens in order to continue their active labour activity and to propose the concept for building the model for the organisation of such training. The conceptual model for the organisation of professional training of senior citizens is developed from the point of system-based approach and includes the following elements: 1) clarification of conceptual apparatus of senior adult education; 2) determination of anatomical and physiological features of senior citizens; 3) argumentation of the need of senior citizens for professional training; 4) determination of the peculiarities of professional training for senior citizens; 5) development of prerequisites list for successful learning of senior citizens; 6) formulation of learning objectives and tasks for its organisation; 7) choice of approaches for building the model of training and its principles as well as methodology for determining the quality and results of training.Practical significance. The proposed concept of the model for the organisation of professional training of senior citizens can be used as a basic concept for further theoretical and practical developments in this field.

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Signposts of change in the landscape of adult basic education in Austria: a telling case

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

A Comparative Study of Values-Based Fields of Adult Learning and Education in Austria, Scotland, and South Tyrol, Italy: Practitioners Resisting Neoliberal Tendencies Based on Their Ideas of Social Justice

A Comparative Study of Values-Based Fields of Adult Learning and Education in Austria, Scotland, and South Tyrol, Italy: Practitioners Resisting Neoliberal Tendencies Based on Their Ideas of Social Justice

‘Special offers for target groups that otherwise would not have been reached’

Methodology for the organisation of professional training of senior citizens: general concept

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