PISA and adult education – temptations and open questions
“The PISA results are an invitation for the debate and for developing the research rather than conclusive judgeements on the miracle recipe to improve the educational performance” (Heller 2003, p. 30).
Earmarking for the discussion of policies of adult education after PISA is that the results are taken to express most different positions in little differentiated way. To this also the typical reception problems contribute, such as the mixing up of correlations with causations that can not at all be justified by the correlations. In the contribution those kind of reception problems are gone into as well as the possiblities of the misuseage of policies of adult education. With special attention in reference to the adult pedagogy the possible consequences of the PISA results are observed as well as the dealings with the results.