Erwachsenenbildung in der Zeitschrift „Bildung und Erziehung”

Abstract

This article concentrates on the establishment of adult education as an independent discipline within the field of education and the thematic spectrum of the journal Bildung und Erziehung. Paralleling the comparably late development of the theoretical foundations and the institutionalisation of adult education, this article describes the phases of research in adult education beginning in the 1950s. The University of Bochum particularly influenced this process because it was the first University founded in the Federal Republic after World War II and established a differentiation and specialization in the subject of educational studies. The author, who has been the co-editor of Bildung und Erziehung since 1975, points out the scientific orientation and the independence of the journal's particular interests. As far as adult education is concerned, recent articles are dealing with current reform projects such as the Delors Commission, the report of the Commission on Education of Northrhine-Westfalia and more general the situation of international literacy in 1996. In addition to the contents of those volumes particularly concentrating on adult education, such as Conceptions of Adult Literacy, Professionalization in Adult Education, Media in Education and the Protection of the Youth, Concerted Action Further and Continuing Education and International and Comparative Adult Education, the author also refers to future perspectives of adult education and the importance ofthe representation of adult education in the journal Bildung und Erziehung.