Basic concepts of the educational science sub-discipline of adult education

Author: Kaethe Schneider, Frederch-Schiller University, Jena, Thuringia, Germany

Edition: Volume 45, Number 3, November 2005

Summary: In this study, a conceptual system is outlined for the educational science sub-discipline of adult education. Adults’ attending instruction or not attending instruction is conceptually specified. Focusing as it does on a cardinal event of adult education, this represents a first step toward a system for the educational science sub-discipline of adult education. Attending instruction is mainly understood as action, and non-attending instruction as behavior. Instruction is a system of educational actions in which the teacher orients a subject to the educand in order to change his or her psychic dispositions.

Keywords: adult education, action, behavior

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