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Between educating and teaching the adult population. Andragogical perspectives on the Corona Pandemic

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Prof Dr and Dr Burkhard Arnd-Michael Schäffer, Denise Nohl

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität der Bundeswehr München

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Communication

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The project aims to investigate from an educational perspective how populations are lead to adopt certain knowledge and behavior in the face of the corona pandemic via teaching and education. Through the analysis of politicians' speeches, experts' contributions, narrative interviews with citizens, and social media contributions, both the andragogical actions of politicians and experts shall be reconstructed and how the adult population appropriates them. Adopting an education scientific perspective, the project thus contributes to research on state-citizen crisis communication and helps to understand the processes of political education, the transfer of scientific knowledge, and how the population deals with political andragogical interventions.