Adult education.at magazine

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The "magazine adult education.at - the specialist medium for research, practice and discourse " is an Austrian online magazine for adult education and training .

History and background

After the magazine "Adult Education in Austria" was discontinued in 1995, there was no independent specialist medium for adult education in Austria for over a decade. This situation was ended in 2007 with the establishment of the online magazine "Adult Education.at" and a contemporary specialist medium for research, practice and discourse was brought into being. The magazine Adult Education.at was part of the projects funded in the so-called “Cooperative System of Adult Education Austria” from 2007-2014 and was financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (BMUKK). Since the beginning of 2014 it has been financed exclusively nationally by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), formerly BMBF and BMUKK. The editorship is shared by the BMBWF and the Austrian Federal Institute for Adult Education (bifeb). The online editorial team is based at the CONEDU association.

Since issue 17, which appeared in 2012, the abbreviation Meb has also been used on the cover for the name of the magazine.

character

The magazine adult education.at publishes articles by authors from science and practice and is aimed at readers who are active in adult education, further education and in the field of lifelong learning. Example: In the double edition 35/36, which was published in January 2019, 30 authors from Austria and Germany explored the local and spatial dimensions of learning and adult education with practical examples, theoretical contributions and reviews. The articles appear in German, and increasingly also in English. English-language abstracts are available for all contributions .

According to Medienlinie, the aim of the editorial team is to stimulate the discourse between research, practice and educational policy, to promote knowledge transfer and to provide Austrian adult education with a qualitative and institutionally independent medium. To this end, an issue appears three times a year on https://erwachsenenbildung.at/magazin, which has an average of 140 pages in PDF format. The magazine is available free of charge on the Internet or as a printed copy at cost price in bookshops. The print version is printed and distributed by Books on Demand .

Procedure and licensing

Following the call for papers , each submitted manuscript is assessed by a specialist editorial team according to content and formal criteria in a peer review process. The six-person specialist editorial team consists of representatives from adult education, educational research and educational journalism. Online editors, editors and authors work closely together. Unless otherwise stated, the articles in "Magazin Adults Education.at" appear under the Creative Commons license .

offer

From February 2007 to February 2020 39 editions (two of which are double editions) penned by 416 authors were published. All issues are permanently available online as a link for viewing and downloading.

Issue 39 with the title Humanism and Freedom. Stumbling blocks on the way to a democratic education and a sustainable society? was published in February 2020. She asks to what extent humanistic education is an important approach or a stumbling block for sustainability and lived democracy and investigates the tensions and contradictions between humanism, democracy and freedom.

All other editions with title and publication date are listed below:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ authors. In: adult education.at. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Humanism and Freedom. Stumbling blocks on the way to a democratic education and a sustainable society? . In: Magazin Adults Education.at, No. 39 . adult education.at. February 2020.