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Summary

The project “Education Landscapes” will describe how learners from different milieus realise their ideas about education. Since the late Middle Ages the borders between the culture of the educated and the culture of the “poor and uneducated” have been a central issue of discussion.

Even today, non-graduates and people with low educational achievement are faced with barriers for further education more frequently than average – they prefer more direct accesses to nature, culture, and learning to formally organised ones. As far as motivation to learn, learning interests, and ways of learning are concerned, educated milieus are more open-minded towards classic educational offers.

The target group’s respective educational worlds can be revealed if one looks at the barriers for further education these people face, their daily practices, and consumption styles. The project will scrutinise the transformations in the access to everyday culture and education and exploit the insights gained to improve training for disadvantaged and marginalised population groups. The intended result is the depiction of a “landscape” of ideas about education.

The internet-based “Education Landscape” will assemble elements of how people living under the threat of poverty and social exclusion understand education. This will create the opportunity to both formulate accesses, desires, ways of learning, and requirements for adult education from the disadvantaged learners’ perspective and reach more precisely tailored customer orientation.

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