ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale 1 Dr. Editha Marquardt, Heidelberg University, Elisabeth Loeser, AWWK Continuing Academic

ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale

1 Dr. Editha Marquardt, Heidelberg University, Elisabeth Loeser, AWWK

Continuing Academic Education in Germany. A short overview

Example case: The AWWK – Akademie für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung Karlsruhe e.V.

Dr. Editha MarquardtElisabeth Loeser


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• easier access to high quality learning

• lifelong learning needs as priority for providers

• intergenerational learning

• offers for older workers

• health benefits – maintaining mental activity

• digital bridge

• support and financing

Policy recommendations of the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) for older learners:

Dr. Editha Marquardt, Heidelberg University, Elisabeth Loeser, AWWK


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Literature: Meese 2005; Seidel/Siebert 1990

From Each Other With Each Other About Each Other

Expert knowledge lies in one generation

This generation is supporting the other

Expert knowledge is outside the group – lecturer or tutor

Work together on joint topics

often: no real exchange, work coexisting

Generations as main focus of the activity

Biographic-historical conditions of generations

Aims at understanding of the other

MentoringSenior coachesSenior advisor for career entryPupils teach seniors

Senior studyStudy groupsPublic science

Older adults tell about their lifeContemporary witnesses

Intergenerational Dialogue Strategies

Generations learn:



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Literature: Meese 2005; Seidel/Siebert 1990

From Each Other With Each Other About Each Other

Expert knowledge lies in one generation

This generation is supporting the other

Expert knowledge is outside the group – lecturer or tutor

Work together on joint topics

often: no real exchange, work coexisting

Generations as main focus of the activity

Biographic-historical conditions of generations

Aims at understanding of the other

MentoringSenior coachesSenior advisor for career entryPupil teach seniors

Senior studyStudy groupsPublic science

Older adults tell about their lifeContemporary witnesses

Intergenerational Dialogue Strategies in the

Generations learn:

Continuing Academic Education at Higher Education Institutions:

Guest studentsProgrammes for senior students

University of the 3rd Age



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Senior Study in Germany

• discussion started in 1970s

• 1979 first workshop topic „Opening of

universities for older adults“

• 1980 pilot project Dortmund University

• today ca. 50 Universities and other HEI

offer possibilities for seniorsBundesarchiv, Bild 183-1986-0109-010 / Grubitzsch (geb. Raphael), Waltraud / CC-BY-SA [CC-BY-SA-3.0-de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Student 1986, Leipzig, age 89



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Guest Students in Germany (Winter Semester 2010/11)

Generation 60 plus (18 800)

Guest students (38 600)

Source: Statistisches Bundesamt 2011

Average Age of Guest Students

2000/01 – 49 years2010/11 – 52 years

Preferred Subjects

History 4 900 StudentsEconomics 4 500 StudentsPhilosophy 3 600 Students



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University of Third Age in Germany

international organisation targeting mainly retired members of society and aiming at education and stimulation

U3A

Good examples: Frankfurt UniversityGöttingen University

two concepts

linked to a local university(France, Europe)

self-help organisations(UK, Australia)

Germany



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University of the Third Age at Frankfurt University

website presentation

9.06.1982 University of the Third Age was opened

• target group – older adults, who want to learn within an academic framework

• close collaboration with the working group „Gerontology“ at the department of educational sciences

• Questions of ageing, old age and demographic change and gerontological projects are important topics

• self-concept – see themselves as part of continuing academic education in cooperation with other programmes



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Students Winter Semester 2013/14


Source: http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/43322605/statistik



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Source: http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/43322605/statistik


Number of Students 1992-2014



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Other format of Continuing Academic Education

Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education, Ulm University = "Zentrum für Allgemeine Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung" (ZAWIW)• continuing education with topics of social relevance• traditional continuing education • innovative approaches such as virtual learning projects or intergenerational activities• wide scope of educational events and courses on exciting subjects to people in the third age and younger

ProjectSenior-Internet-Help



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Academic Association of Seniors in Germany (AVDS)

8 point programme – demands for good practice

1. Introduction – every semester2. integrative – also for seniors and guest students3. Open Study– without barriers like abitur 4. intergenerational – all generations together5. Fair fees6. Printed university calendar – Overview about Seminars and lectures7. Closing event (end of semester) – University culture for everybody8. University ranking – Comparison of study conditions

Idea: support of learning opportunities in older age

learning things one always wanted to know

responsability in older age, voluntary work

widening and sharing of knowledge

Aims



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German Association for University Continuing and Distance Education

• association including 300 institutional and personal members of HEI and Institutions of Continuing Learning

• members from Germany, 15 members from other countries, esp. Austria and Switzerland

Member in the EUCEN (European Association for University Lifelong Learning)

• largest European multidisciplinary Association in University Lifelong Learning

• founded in 1991• registered in Belgium • 95 members from 36 different countries



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AWWK – Akademie für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung Karlsruhe e.V.


The AWWK – Akademie für Wissenschaftliche

Weiterbildung e.V.


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1985

Karlsruhe University of Education

University of Applied Sciences

KarlsruheUniversity

AWWK


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2008


KarlsruheUniversity

AWWK


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Organisation


KarlsruheUniversity

AWWK

Room facilities

Lectures extern

Management (0,5)

Board

President: Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

Vice president: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Weigand


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Facts

1985 – 2008

• Ca. 20 events per year

• Ca. 200 participants

• 120 members (2008)

• 1200 database registrations

2008 until today

• Ca. 60 – 70 events/classes per year

• Ca. 550 class registrations

• 79 members

• 1400 database registrations

• 320 follower


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Tasks and Orientation

• Inform participants

about current developments in science

about (new) methods of research and research results

• Interprete and illustrate academic / scientific results and developments with

reference to specific areas of life and work

• Foster the dialogue between science and society

reflect ethic dimension, impact


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Tasks and Orientation

• counterbalance to specialization of knowledge/science

offer classes with interdisciplinary topics

show coherence between particular areas of science and life


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Subject areas / fields of science

• (Natural) science, engineering,

botany

• History, philosophy, theology

• Literary studies, culture studies,

film studies

• Musicology, history of art

• Social science, education

• Cooperations, excursions


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Thank you!

Dr. Editha Marquardt

(Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography,E-Mail: [email protected])

Elisabeth Loeser

(AWWK E-Mail: [email protected])


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ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale 1 Dr. Editha Marquardt, Heidelberg University, Elisabeth Loeser, AWWK Continuing Academic