DOCUMENT RESUME ED 346 306 CE 061 352 AUTHOR Mader, Wilhelm, Ed. TITLE Adult Education in the Federal Republic of Germany: Scholarly Approaches and Professional Practice. Monographs on Comparative and Area Studies in Adult Education. INSTITUTION British Columbia Univ., Vancouver. Center for Continuing Education.; International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). REPORT NO ISBN-0-88843-192-9 PUB DATE 92 NOTE 259p.; Translation of "Weiterbildung und Gesellschaft" (University of Bremen, 1990). Translated by Martin G. Haindorff. AVAILABLE FROMPu:)lications, Centre for Continuing Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia VST 1Z1, Canada ($20). PUB TYPE Coliected Works - General (020) -- Reports - Descriptive (141) -- Reports - Research/Technical (143) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adult Education; Developed Nations; Educational Development; *Educational History; Educational Principles; *Educational Theories; Experiential Learning; Feminism; Foreign Countries; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Approach; Labor Education; Political Influences; Psychology; Sociology; Vocational 'Education 'IDENTIFIERS *West Germany ABSTRACT This monograph offers insight into the development of the conceptual basis, scholarly inquiry, and professional practice of adult education in West Germany from the end of World War II to the German reunification. Introductory materials are an "Introduction" (Wilhelm Mader) and "Translator's Note and Acknowledgements" (Nartin Haindorff). Three papers in Part I deal with three core professional domains: "General Adult Education" (Erhard Schlutz); "Vocational Development" (Wilfried Voigt); and "Adult Education as a Vocation: Lay Job or Profession?" (Roswitha Peters). The two papers in Part II connect political emancipation and adult education: "Feminist Target Groups as a Form of Work" (Wiltrud Gieseke) and "Labour Education" (Wolfgang Hindrichs). Part III examines the relationship of adult education with other "sciences": :"I'he Importance of Sociology for Further Education" (Wilke Thomssen); "Education Science and Adult Education" (Erhard Schlutz, Wilfried Voigt); and "Psychniooy and Adult Education" (Wilhelm Mader). Part IV explores three theoretical approaches: "Education Science and Adult Education: Theses for a Critical Relationship" (Herbert Gerl); "Experiential Approaches in Adult Education" (Guenther Holzapfel); and "The Biographical Approach to Adult Education" (Peter Alheit). An appendix includes four items by Martin Haindorff: "Ausbildung, Fortbildung, Weiterbildung"; "Bremen's Legislation on Continuing Education and Its Historical Background since 1970"; "University of Bremen: Requirements, Courses, Examination Regulations"; and a 213-item "Annotated Bibliography." (YLB) Adult Education in tliA dcral Republic of (ier Scholarly .Nppi; acCS and Prof y,ional PractiCT Editcd h Wilhcint \Cider Trawdatit-61-1\ \Iitrtin (F. 1-LtinchirIT 4. 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Haindorff Vancouver 1992 Published 1992 in Vancouver by the Centre for ContinuingEducation The University of British Columbia, in co-operation withthe International Council for Adult Education Gelman edition published 1990 by the University ofBremen under the title Weiterbildung md Gesellschaft: Grundlagen wissenschafilicherwid beruflicher Praxis in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Canadian Cataloguing in Publivation Data Main Enuy under title: Adult Education in the Federa'epublic of Germany (Monographs on comparative and area 3tudies in adult education) Translation of: Weiterbildung und Gesellschaft. Co-published by the International Council for Adult Education ISBN 0-88843-192-9 1. Adult education Germany (West). I. Mader, Wilhelm.II University of Br lush Columbi a. Centre for Com inu ing Education. ill.International Council lbr Adult Education. IV. Series 5256.04A3813 1992 374'.943 C92-091144-7 Order from: Publications Centre for Continuing Education The University of British Columbia 5997 Iona Drive Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 Price: 520AX) ti Preface Interest in the comparative study of adult education has been growing inmany parts of the world since the first conference on comparative adult education heldat Exeter, U.S.A. in 1966. This interest was given further impetus by metings held at Pugwash, Canada in 1970, Nixdborg, Denmark in 1972, Nairobi, Kenya in 1975, Oxford, England in 1987, Rome, Italy in 1988 and lbadan, Nigeria in 1991. A number of international enanizations, ameng those Unesco, the International Bureau of Education, the International Congress of University Adult Education, the European Bureau of Adult Education. O.E.C.D., the (now defunct) European Centre for Leisure and Education, the Council of Europe, and the International Council for Adult Education have contributed their share. A growing number of universities in all five continents establishedcourses in comparative adult alucation. Many other universities encourage studentsto deal with comparative study or with the study of adult education abroad in majorpapers and theses. The literature in this area has increased considerably since the early I 960s both in support and as a result of this university activity. A number ofv aluable bibliographies were published, cataloguing the growing wealth of materials available in a number of languages. Most of the literature available on adult education in various countriescan still be found primarily in articles scattered throughout adult education and social science journals. Until a few years ago there was no commercial publisher enticing researchers to submit manuscripts of monographs dealing with comparative and case studies of adult education in various countries, even though the need for sucha publishing venture was stressed at a number of international meetings. It was with the intentto provide such service to the discipline and the field of adult education that the Centre for Continuing Education at The University of British Columbia, in cooperation with the International Council for Adult Education, decided in 1977to publish a series of Monographs on Comparative and Area Studies in Adult Education. In 1984 a major English publishing house in the field of education, Cmom Helm, decided to establish a new series, the Croorn Helm Series in International Adult Education. Dr. Peter Jarvis of the University of Surrey, an internationally recognized vi scholar and noted promoter of publishing in international adulteducation, was appointed editor of this new series. A number of volumes have beenpublished in this series since 1984 and have enriched the literature in this importantfield. The series has been taken over by Routledge and is now published asInternational Perspectives ea Adult and Continuing Education. One of the major deficits in English-language publishing on adulteducation is the dearth of materials translated from other language& This makesmuch of the significant work of our colleagues who work in languages other thanEnglish inaccessible to all but a handful of adult education researchers andFactitioners in the English-speaking world. We have auempted in a small way in this series ofmonographs to contribute towards filling this gap in the hieranireof adu'..! °Alucation. We are now pleased to bring out as the seventeenth volumein the series Adult Education iruhe FederalRepublicofGermany: ScholarlyApproaches andProfessional Praaice, prepared by the faculty members in the Department of AdultEducation at the University of Bremen, edited by Wilhelm Mader and very ablytranslated by Martin Haindorff. This volume offers the English-speaking reader animpwant opportunity of insight into the development of the conceptual basis,scholarly inquiry and professional practice of adult education in West Germany from theend of the