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Personal and organisational educational counselling The need for support in the search for tailor-made educational programmes is growing along with the ongoing individualisation of educational pathways. Counselling of individuals and organisations is gaining importance in this context. This issue focuses both on new theories as well as educational policy developments, devoting attention to current challenges in various fields of action: the training of vocational counsellors, research of coun…
The report contributes statements by educational counsellors indicating their self-expectations and objectives and their attempt to obtain a high beneficial level of counselling in continuing education. At the same time, the ratio of the competences of counselling personnel in continuing education to their self-defined objectives is observed. This qualitative empiricism backs the analysis of the location of continuing educational counselling as a location in the triangle between public expectat…
Da Politik – zumal in der Bildung – zunehmend evidenzbasiert agieren möchte, wächst der Bedarf an belastbaren Indikatoren für Nutzen und Wirksamkeit von Investitionen. Diese Diskussion wird auch auf die Weiterbildungsberatung zukommen. Da der Diskurs um Nutzenarten von Beratung hierzulande noch ganz am Anfang steht, hat sich Bernd Käpplinger in Großbritannien umgesehen und von dort Anregungen geholt, die er in die Skizzierung von Nutzendimensionen von Weiterbildungsberatung einfließen lässt.
Firstly, the author explores the terminological field covering the outcome of educational counselling and develops beneficial dimensions, which are visualised as a network. The author stimulates the German discussion with methodological topics and research results originating in British evaluations. Scientific studies used to confirm the positive effects of educational counselling. Finally the report suggests an agenda for researching the benefits in the field of counselling in continuing edu…
Professionelles Handeln ist auch in der Bildungsberatung wichtiger denn je. Voraussetzung dafür ist neben der Aneignung notwendiger Kompetenzen die Ausbildung eines individuellen wie öffentlichen Bewusstseins für die Spezifik der Beratungstätigkeit. Schließlich kommt es in der Beratungssituation vor allem auf die Fähigkeit zu wechselseitiger Wahrnehmung und angemessener Reaktion an. Basierend auf Modellen aus der Psychoanalyse und anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis stellt Jörg Knoll Metho…
Bildungsberatung wird immer stärker in kommunale Bildungsstrategien eingebunden. Dabei ist die Praxis von Bildungsberatung ebenso divers wie die berufliche Herkunft der Beratenden. Wie ihr Selbstverständnis aussieht, welche Gemeinsamkeiten in der Beruflichkeit trotz der Diversität der Beratenden bestehen und inwiefern eine weitergehende Vernetzung der Beratungsakteure sinnvoll ist, zeigt eine Studie der Universität Duisburg-Essen zur Bildungsregion Duisburg.
Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
Within the federal programme »On-Site Learning«, the General Bureau of Education in Aachen is responsible for the municipal coordination of educational counselling in ten communities. The presented three-pillar model includes the qualification of educational counsellors, training for educational guides for and the compass training guidance as an associated information medium. The concept aims at improving the transparency of publicly accessible educational counselling as well as approaching edu…
This report reflects the current place and task of adult education centres in the German educational counselling landscape. It outlines current challenges and points out activities of state associations and the federal association aimed at a higher level of professionalization and quality in the field of counselling.
