The monograph “Non-formal learning? What is that” deals with wide variety of issues, which is interpreted by anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, education scientists and historians of education. The subject covered is therefore a broad one whose contents reach into fields that at first glance appear to be very distant from each other. It is precisely this diversity of approaches that offers the best promise of new findings regarding non-formal learning, education and knowledge. The authors of this monograph have covered several topics: historical view of the importance of non-formally acquired knowledge from the antiquity to the 16th century; questions of the emancipatory potential of non-formal education; the connection of non-formal learning and dialogue; informal acquisition of knowledge in different discourses; the role of formal and non-formal knowledge in the practices of the anti-intellectualism; the significance of a teacher’s professional excellence in non-formal education; different perspectives about recognition of non-formal learning in vocational education and training in adult education. In the reviews this monograph was recognized as contributing to different views of learning and education; it was said that the monograph is filling up an important gap in the field of research of non-formal learning in Slovenia as well as internationally. The hope was expressed for this monograph to encourage further research in this area.
COBISS.SI-ID: 267921152
Article sets out a socio-historical context and a conceptual orientation of the National Socialist university reforms in the Third Reich. The author exposes principal National Socialist university modifications which resulted in the creation of a NS »political university« and abolishment of university autonomy. National Socialist university revolution dismissed an old institution of university autonomy through centralized university leadership and administrative services, whilst it integrated university disciplines in the destiny of nation (this was done by promotion of applicative sciences and by bringing them into military-industrial complex). In such a way almost a total control over the formal and content academic matters was achieved. However this transformation wouldn’t be possible without the collaboration of a major part of the university personnel. After the academic purge in1933, which was triggered by the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums), and as a consequence of which university posts were lost for Jews and intellectuals of left orientation, a year after that – in 1934 – the Law concerning the Reorganization of University followed, by which university became only a branch of the Nazi political system, supervised by NSDAP. Understanding of the Third Reich university policy is not utterly disconnected of our capability to recognize recidivist elements of autocratic academic policy brought to light in the neo-liberal deregulation of university.
COBISS.SI-ID: 272723968
Article, firstly, outlines a short history of repressive policy and politicizing of universities in the German social space, and, secondly, exposes principal National Socialist university modifications which resulted in the creation of »political university« and abolishment of university autonomy. Prehistory (from the perspective of National Socialism as our focal investigative point), in comparison with other European countries, shows some specific characteristics. Namely, in Germany strong hierarchical differentiation of university positions as well as of university disciplines has been more stressed, authoritarian, or state supervision over the universities has been more visible, and each transgression of (anti)intellectual (cognitive) limits was more sharply sanctioned as – for example – in France. After the decline of relatively free spirit of the aufgeklärte (enlightened) research university, when University of Göttingen was one of the high points and attracted many young people and excellent scholars, early 19th Century was confronted with a new ideological project of Nationsbildung (retrospectively integrated into history). In these new powerful and unifying paradigmatic frames gradual enclosing of universities and self-sufficiency of German Sonderweg myth began to appear, and soon took the form of the so called idealistic representation of German university. This process is, however, not single-coloured but a complex one, full of inner contradictions; within it the reactionary university forces recovered, strengthened and built grounds on which a National Socialist »revolution« would place a reformed »political university«.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2599511