Michael Schemmann (Hg.)

Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung / International Yearbook of Adult Education 2025

Social-diagnostic Perspectives on Adult Education

Volume 48 of the International Yearbook of Adult Education is dedicated to sociological diagnoses of the present and contemporary society - such as the Externalization Society, the Sociology of de-networking and Surveillance Capitalism - and examines their implications for adult education. Such diagnoses shape the political discourse and often give rise to new demands on education and training. The volume picks up on these dynamics and highlights the role that adult education can play in social upheavals. In doing so, the volume argues for critical examination of diagnoses of the present and contemporary times in order to avoid hastily deriving measures.

Michael Schemmann
Social-diagnostic Perspectives on Adult Education. An Introduction to the Topic

I Thematischer Schwerpunkt/Key Subject

Anke Grotlüschen & Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha
The concept of 'Surveillance Capitalism' and its relevance for Adult Learning and Education

Julia Koller
To Network or Not to Network in German Adult Education: Rethinking Networks as learning opportunitites based on Stäheli's sociology of de-Networking

Hennig Pätzold & Michael Schemmann
Die Externalisierungsgesellschaft als Reflexionsanlass für Weiterbildung

II Vermischtes/Miscellaneous

Ewelina Mania, Mara Winkens & Julia Koller
Innovationen in der Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung: eine Dokumentenanalyse

Tim Roor
Adult Education Research Between the Center and Periphery - Publication Practices and Topics of Adult Education Researchers in Countries of the So-Called Global South

III Rezensionen/Reviews

Michael Schemmann
International and Comparative Perspectives on Adult Education

Jana Arbeiter
Lehr-/Lernkulturen in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung