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Historischer Längsschnitt zu den Entwicklungstendenzen in der Erwachsenenbildung von 1960 bis heute.
Quality management systems – despite the name – often fail to contribute significantly to the overall management of an organization and are therefore not as welcome as they might be. The new DIN EN ISO 9000:2000 is structured to improve this situation through the employment of the process approach, aimed at the maximum benefit to the organization on two levels: 1. The continuous planning, execution and monitoring of the quality of the organization has to be integrated with traditional concepts …
The German „Bundesanstalt für Arbeit“ runs a comprehensive system of advisory programmes not only for unemployed persons, but also for working persons interested in further professional training, special programmes for disabled persons as well as for employers. With the multiplying „factors of uncertainty“ the demand for information about current developments on the labour market is increasing. In addition to traditional forms of consultancy the job centres are building up several computer bas…
Net based communication is changing business and private life and education and learning of adults as well. Important condition for using new chances by new information and communication technologies for learning processes is media competence. – The authors describe components of media competence as a pedagogical target including technical competence, communicative competence and the competence of coping with the information flood. Problems are restrictions of participation on net based communi…
Working biographies today do not last for life. The author describes the concepts of labour entrepreneur as a new type of labour which means that employees put their competence to the market. Characteristics of the labour entrepreneur is responsibilityfor the organisation and the marketing of one’s own competence. As a consequence in adult education didactical and methodical concepts for the interpretation and self-reflection of one’s own biography have to be developed.
Alfred Grosser ist Soziologe, Politikwissenschaftler, Publizist und politischer Kolumnist. 1933 emigrierte er nach Frankreich. Lange Jahre war er Professor am Institut d’études politique in Paris und erhielt für seine Mittlerrolle zwischen Franzosen und Deutschen, Gläubigen und Ungläubigen diverse Auszeichnungen, so auch den Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels. Alfred Grosser diskutiert mit Klaus Meisel über die Zukunft von Bildung und Lernen, Politik und politischer Bildung in der Wissensg…
The concept of support-networks is currently finding its way out of the theoretical discussions into practical application. This is not only due to the zeitgeist of reduced governmental investments in education policy but also because the concept of support takes into account the social embeddedness of learning costs and thus contributes to the discourse of the „learning society“. Networks are propagated as an alternative to either the state or the market, on the other hand they are likely to c…
Ekkhard Nuissl, Professor für Erwachsenenbildung an der Universität Marburg und Direktor des DIE, spricht mit Dr. Angela Franz-Balsen über die Notwendigkeit von Supportstrukturen und über die konkreten Supportleistungen, die das DIE erbringt. Er sieht die Weiterbildung insgesamt herausgefordert, gemeinsam und intensiv an weiteren Supportstrukturen zu arbeiten und nationale Kapazitäten auf europäischer Ebene zu vernetzen.
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) works as a provider of scientific ser vices for both research and practical work in adult and fur ther education, supplying institutions and researchers with statistical data, documents and support. Its strategic position at the interface between theory and practice corresponds with the institutes specific understanding of its own supportive function and distinctive corporate identity: transmitting scientific knowledge to practice and vice versa, p…
For the evaluation of the World Literacy Decade (2003–2012), the author focuses on the successful and unsuccessful UN literacy objectives. In the article, the mobilization for global literacy, the reliable data survey on the extent of the literacy problem, the world report »Education for All« with a main focus on alphabetization, the acknowledgment of literacy as a continuum of the »Belém Framework for Action«, the »UNESCO LIFE Initiative«, the »E-9 Initiative« as well as several international,…
