Methodological Suspicions in the Future Study of Adult Education.

Autor/inn/en	Lavrnja, Ilija; Klapan, Anita
Titel	Methodological Suspicions in the Future Study of Adult Education.
Quelle	(2000), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Education; Andragogy; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Educational Finance; Educational Needs; Educational Philosophy; Educational Research; Educational Trends; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); Instruction; Interdisciplinary Approach; Lifelong Learning; Marxism; Needs Assessment; Position Papers; Prediction; Predictive Measurement; Predictive Validity; Predictor Variables; Research Design; Research Methodology; Socialism; Trend Analysis; Croatia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Andragogics; Andragogik; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Bildungsfonds; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Bildungsentwicklung; Ausland; Future; Society; Zukunft; Teaching process; Unterrichtsprozess; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Marxismus; Bedarfsermittlung; Positionspapier; Vorhersage; Prädiktor; Forschungsdesign; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Sozialismus; Trendanalyse; Kroatien
Abstract	Science plays an extremely important role in predicting the future of social phenomena, including pedagogy and andragogy. Research in these areas must be based on an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, systemic, and structural approach that is based on the assumption that upbringing and education are specific phenomena in which human praxis--conscious and creative human activity--plays a prominent role. Value-normative statements must be differentiated from cognitive statements of upbringing and education so as to differentiate between the methodological approach of "exploration of the future" and that of "creating and modeling the future." Future research in pedagogy and andragogy should be based on the fact that education can give to the Marxist- Socialist system and all its subsystems all that ensues from its authentic nature and functionality. Researchers could then use the methodological set of instruments and orientation that can foresee such development in the future. When dealing with the adult education concept of lifelong education, researchers should shift their focus from "education for the future" to "education and the future." Croatia's system and model of formal education must be broadened; nonformal and informal education must be promoted and better organized; and adult education must be enriched with modern methods, forms, and technology. (22 references) (MN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC