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In Germany, participation in continuing education has been on a respectable level since 2012. In 2016, 50 per cent of all adults were active in continuing education and training. Based on these findings, the Adult Education Survey (AES) 2016 provides numerous detailed results, which are presented in the final evaluation report. The authors of this report analyse and comment the representative data with regard to key issues, such as: Who are the participants of continuing education and for what …
In international comparative analyses on further education the clustering of countries is widely established. Frequently, such typologies are derived heuristically, referring to theoretical approaches or single indicators, which make it difficult to obtain a systematic overview. This contribution presents the main arguments of two theoretical approaches (welfare state regimes Esping-Andersen 1990 and varieties of capitalism Hall/Soskice 2001) that refer to indicators on the macro level for expl…
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) reflects upon adult learning from the perspective of a life profile. The article describes the system and methodological approach of the NEPS with a special focus on the group of adults. The education and employment history as well as the consequent competence development of the adult working age population is analyzed. Overall, 60,000 people are surveyed in the NEPS including more than 11,000 adults. First data is already available to the expert publ…
Jüngste Wahlerfolge für die Ränder des politischen Spektrums lassen eine stärker werdende Polarisierung der Gesellschaft vermuten. Viele Menschen halten dies für eine Krise der Demokratie. Dr. Linus Westheuser, Mitautor der »Triggerpunkte«-Studie, plädiert dafür, den Blick auf die Mitte der Gesellschaft zu richten. Redakteur Jan Rohwerder sprach mit ihm über politische (Selbst-)Exklusion und warum Streit für eine Demokratie wichtig ist.
Rund 1,4 Millionen Lernende haben sich in den vergangenen fünf Jahren im vhs-Lernportal registriert – und nicht eine Person musste allein lernen. Auf der Online-Lernplattform des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbands (DVV ) werden alle Lernenden tutoriell betreut: Für diejenigen, die unabhängig von einem Kurs lernen, übernehmen geschulte Online-Tutor*innen die Lernbegleitung.
A third of all families in Germany have a background of migration, which offers a great educational potential for family education. The author points out the increased risk situation of this heterogeneous group and warns against the misleading label as a »target group of particular circumstances«. She gives best practice examples and pleads for the intercultural opening of educational institutions.
The article examines the development in demand for the independently creative area of cultural adult education. It also focuses on stakeholders and developments of a new conceptual meaning. The authors particularly call the gender role for independently creative programmes into question and develop hypotheses to explain the dominant proportion of women.
The article focuses on the approach of the VHS Osterholz-Scharmbeck to enhance inclusion in adult education centres with quality management. For this purpose, further needs and requirements must be determined, didactics and methodology developed, and customer communication adapted.
The article discusses whether it is necessary and possible to deduce the didactics of adult education from the particularities of the adult age. The authors make the case for understanding didactics of adult education in the continuity of the lifespan and as a modification of general didactics. It should be related to the characteristics of the social situation of adults. Such “didactics for adults” should be complemented by specific “didactics of further education” which focus on specific inst…
