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Migrants are faced with the particular challenge of gaining acknowledgment and social acceptance of their qualifications acquired in their country of origin. They stand to benefit from a comprehensive implementation of the lifelong learning strategy. The acknowledgement of individual skills and competences should not depend on the individual learning environment. Being successful in the labour market is an important objective for holders of foreign qualifications. In addition, being located in …
Transitions as a test case The concept of lifelong learning and the penetrability of the educational system With the concept of lifelong learning a better interleave of the educational areas is intended. The contribution analyses central sources on how the educational politics has strategically handled the role of lifelong learning and which practices it virtually has supported: With a strategy paper of the federal state and the states of the federation on lifelong learning as well as on the…
The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
Justice in/of continuing vocational training? Is there a correlation between continuing training and justice, or put differently; can continuing training contribute to improving opportunities for social participation? The authors pose this question in a broader societal context and approach it against the background of the social capital approach. They refer to empirical findings from Northern Ireland which put into perspective the wide-spread idea of the positive correlation of social capit…
Heinrich Stephani setzte die Einführung der Lautiermethode zum Lesen lernen, mit seiner mehr als 100000 mal gedruckten Hand- und Wandfibel, mit durch. Außerdem entwickelte er einen, das ganze Leben umfassenden, Nationalerziehungsplan, den er 1805 unter dem Titel: „System der öffentlichen Erziehung“ publik machte
Es gibt in Deutschland bisher nur wenige und verstreute Daten, die das System der Weiterbildung aus der Perspektive der Anbieter beschreiben. Der Verbund Weiterbildungsstatistik unter Koordination des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) tritt in diese Lücke und legt eine jährliche Statistik der angeschlossenen Einrichtungen und ihres Angebots vor. Im Folgenden werden zunächst die verfügbaren Daten beschrieben, bevor zwei Beispiele für inhaltliche Auswertungen gegeben werden.
Die Autoren bündeln aktuelle Diskussionsergebnisse über Bedarfe und Perspektiven der Erwachsenenbildungsforschung. Bezogen auf die Bereiche Erwachsenenlernen, Wissensstrukturen, professionelles Handeln, Institutionalisierung sowie System und Politik formulieren sie Arbeitsschwerpunkte für die nächste Zukunft. Basis ihrer Überlegungen sind das Forschungsmemorandum für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, diesbezügliche Beratungen der DGfE-Sektion Erwachsenenbildung und Ergebnisse eines interdiszi…
Teacher training responds to the PISA results with professional qualification of the teaching staff in the areas of deficiency (language and reading competence, mathematical-scientific knowledge, competence in diagnosis and support). Apart from that it must also help school as a system to evolve in manifold ways (obligatory training, school autonomy, staff development, co-operation of schools in matters of instruction, systematical planning of training measures).
The DIE publishes recent research findings from empirical studies on the continuing education system and its educational institutions under the label "DIE Survey. Data and reports on continuing education". The publications are directed at stakeholders in education policy, practical continuing education, as well as national and international research. The volumes are published in loose sequence and provide transparency in the complex field of continuing education. Thus they provide an academical…
