Orientierungsveränderungen bei Work&Travel-Reisenden. Die Reise als Bildungsraum im Licht strukturaler Bildung

This article is based on the significance of informal forms of learning in the context of lifelong learning as well as the structural educational theory following Marotzki. The authors sum up qualitative-empirical research findings on orientational changes of travel workers – young adults – while visiting and working in foreign countries to finance their journey. On this base, structural aspects of these journeys are identified, which can create an educational space: critical experiences, autotelic action, a longer journey period, as well as an exit option.