{"id":110,"date":"2008-10-03T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-10-07T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T17:49:07","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-67-teaching-culture-south-americans-in-germany-adult-learners-women-in-adult-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 67 +++ teaching culture +++ South Americans in Germany +++ adult learners +++ women in adult education +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-110-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_067.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_067.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_067.mp3<\/a><\/audio><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauricio03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-115\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Mauricio Virgens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mauricio03.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Virgens, Bariton, on his way up\" width=\"178\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this episode we are going to have a look at adult education. Anne and I were lucky enough to be invited to the <a title=\"VHS Rhein-Sieg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vhs-rhein-sieg.de\/cms\/front_content.php?idart=8\" target=\"_blank\">Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg<\/a> by Alexandra Haas. We took part in a very stimulating workshop day for trainers inspired by Alexandra\u2019s previous project \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaching-culture.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Culture<\/a>!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>absolutely learner-oriented:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"contact Mechthild Tillmann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vhs-rhein-sieg.de\/cms\/front_content.php?idart=67\" target=\"_blank\">Mechthild Tillmann<\/a>, director of the Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg, reports on <a title=\"workshop day at vhs Rhein-Sieg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vhs-rhein-sieg.de\/cms\/upload\/pdf\/Semesterauftakt_2_08_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">24 different work-shops <\/a>in which teachers shared ideas about marketing, <a title=\"Suggestopedia @ wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suggestopedia\" target=\"_blank\">suggestopedia<\/a>, podcasting in the classroom and other subjects related to their teaching. Following the idea of \u201cteaching culture\u201d and the \u201cculture of teaching\u201d the institution invited their own teachers to turn into learners and improve their methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely bossanovarized:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe listen to <a title=\"Maricio Virgens (Brazilian Artist)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brazilianartists.net\/events\/mauricio_virgens\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mauricio Virgens<\/a>\u00a0from Brazil and <a title=\"Andres Vilamil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarmonia.com\/Andres_Villamil\/ESPA\u00d1OL.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andres Villamil<\/a>\u00a0from Columbia, two South American musicians who played music for us, and \u201cbossanovarized\u201d our busy lives a little. Mauricio speaks about his mission as a cultural ambassador for his native country Brazil and tells us how he keeps up his cultural identity through music. Of course, we also get to enjoy a bit of their music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely enjoyable:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"contact Katrin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vhs-rhein-sieg.de\/cms\/front_content.php?idart=73\" target=\"_blank\">Katrin<\/a>, one of the new staff at the Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg, tells us how previous learning experiences of the participants can a be challenge for the teachers. She has noticed that learners seem to expect the same \u201clearning culture\u201d which they got used to when they were learners for the first time &#8211; years ago. However, one aspect seems to be important to all learners \u2013 that they learn faster if they are having fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely gendered:<\/strong><br \/>\nEvi and Linda both work in <a title=\"Adult Education @ wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adult_education\" target=\"_blank\">adult education<\/a> and explain to us how adult education creates its own culture. We also hear about their perspectives on gender issues and that adult education, just like health services, appears to attract women with a strong impulse to help.<\/p>\n<p>The next show will be coming to you on 17 October from <a title=\"Anne Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/eduspaces.net\/annef\/weblog\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a> in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Und bleiben Sie sch\u00f6n interkulturell!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: <a title=\"Laurent Borgmann\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><br \/>\nAssistant Editor: Jan Warnecke<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a title=\"Download the show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_067.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we are going to have a look at adult education. Anne and I were lucky enough to be invited to the Volkshochschule Rhein-Sieg by Alexandra Haas. We took part in a very stimulating workshop day for trainers inspired by Alexandra\u2019s previous project \u201cTeaching Culture!\u201d. absolutely learner-oriented: Mechthild Tillmann, director of the Volkshochschule &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;absolutely intercultural 67 +++ teaching culture +++ South Americans in Germany +++ adult learners +++ women in adult education +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,159,379,226,58,374,7,330,376,13,325,329,338,339,81,377,6,320,11,12,378,997,340,73,373,290,375],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-adult-education","tag-andres-vilamil","tag-anne-fox","tag-brazil","tag-colombia","tag-communication","tag-cultural-identity","tag-culture-of-teaching","tag-education","tag-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-european-union","tag-fachhochschule-koblenz","tag-fh-koblenz","tag-germany","tag-guitar-music","tag-intercultural","tag-international","tag-language","tag-lifelong-learning","tag-mauricio-virgens","tag-podcast","tag-remagen","tag-rheinahrcampus","tag-south-america","tag-teaching-culture","tag-volkhochschule-rhein-sieg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}