Das Subjekt in einer globalisierten Bildungswelt

The Subject in a Globalized World of Education, Considerations of learning theory on the intercultural learning of socially situated subjects
This article focuses on learners in a discussion of adult education in global society. The author combines the theory of situated learning with Holzkamp‘s phenomenological approach from the perspective of the subject. On this basis, he criticizes a concept of competence aimed at objectifiable learning output in which subjects are mainly viewed as a „cornucopia“ to be filled. In this understanding, intercultural competence is not sufficiently directed to subjective problems with action and overcoming them. If intercultural competence is thought about in terms of the subject and its social situation, adult education must answer the following challenging questions: How does intercultural learning take into account individual learning biographies and the subjective context? How do questions of participation and belonging become the center of interest in enabling learning as a social process? This brings to the fore the problems of the individual‘s relationship to the world that need to be addressed in adult education. (Ed.)