Seminar neu 01.07 Adult Education in the Artistic Presentation Movies Literature Paintings MA EAE Modul 8

The seminar focus on a specific resource of information about various issues related to adult education, adult learning and teaching. Art is treated as the special way to express the attitude towards adult learning, to present the philosophical, anthropological and psychological approach adult learning and teaching. Certain movies, books/novels and paintings (historical and contemporary) will be taken as examples and analysed from various points of view: - what the say about adult education in certain historical of geographical context - how they understand the goal, purpose, meaning of adult education and learning - what is the value or danger in adult learning - what is the content of adult learning (preferred, recommended, forbidden…) depicted in the single artistic presentation - how the relationship between teacher and learner is presented - how are the target groups (wanted or unwanted) - …. After the course, students will: - be sensitised for the phenomena of adult learning, especially of non-formal and informal adult learning - have sharpened -view” for adult education forms in the non-traditional settings - be able to see and analyse single elements and issues related to adult education outside the educational context - use art as the resource for the researches on adult education - have deeper understanding of educational messages of artistic presentations - apply adult education and adult teaching and learning theories to single situations, especially in nonformal and informal learning, and to non-traditional depictions, descriptions and interpretations Students will be asked to pick up some movies, books/novels and paintings, to present and to interpret them with the group. They will be free to choose the epoch, genre, author… The focus to the view of education in the certain epoch, or through the certain genre or the depiction by the certain artistic mean is possible, therewith the group work/presentations also. Bildungswissenschaften Universität Duisburg-Essen WS 2010/11 Dr. Popovic Katarina