Didaktik für Erwachsene und Didaktiken der Weiterbildung

The article discusses whether it is necessary and possible to deduce the didactics of adult education from the particularities of the adult age. The authors make the case for understanding didactics of adult education in the continuity of the lifespan and as a modification of general didactics. It should be related to the characteristics of the social situation of adults. Such “didactics for adults” should be complemented by specific “didactics of further education” which focus on specific institutional aspects: didactics of certificate-related, scientific, practical, interest-based, and target-group oriented further education.