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Personalentwicklung stellt ein im Rahmen der aktuellen Professionalisierungsdebatte in der Erwachsenen-/Weiterbildung hoch aktuelles Thema dar. Dennoch scheint es in der Praxis der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen bislang vernachlässigt worden zu sein. Dabei gewinnt die Weiterentwicklung des Personals nicht nur im Kontext des Paradigmas des Lebenslangen Lernens, sondern auch mit Blick auf die Gewährleistung von Qualität der Weiterbildungsangebote und teilnehmergerechte Programme an wachsender Bedeut…
Was motiviert Erwachsene zu lernen? Sind alle Menschen, die an Weiterbildung teilnehmen, lernmotiviert? Und umgekehrt: Sind diejenigen, die nicht teilnehmen automatisch nicht lernmotiviert? Horst Siebert befasst sich in diesem Studientext mit zwei zentralen Themen der Weiterbildung und zeigt auf, dass das Verhältnis von Lernmotivation und Bildungsbeteiligung äußerst komplex ist. Auf der Grundlage von umfangreichen statistischen Materialien vermittelt er zunächst einen Überblick über die Datenl…
With this article, the author (of the Institute of International Cooperation, an institution within the German Adult Education Association, IIZ/DVV) opens up a readers’ discussion in this publication on the subject of education and the EU extension. In his article, an overview of the points of discussion is given. After the breakdown of the socialist societies in the middle and Eastern European countries, educational facilities suffered a severe loss of authority. This has only partly been ba…
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The 4th sector of education is dominated and directed by market economical criteria while government organized adult education and lifelong learning systems for active labour market policy only have an additional function. The author discusses alternatives by intervention of education policy and isolates three types of financing systems in countries of the European Union: the market regime, the bureaucratical regime, and the mixed regime. Generally he realizes a trend towards a growing relevanc…
Aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an extra-occupational graduate program. Hence it was of crucial importance, whether the alumni assessed the graduate program as effective. To investigate this research question a quantitative questionnaire was designed. Thus the graduate program was evaluated at the three levels reactions, learning and transfer. Overall 88 graduates were interviewed. Data analysis shows the efficacy of the program on all levels. Consequently (theoretical and pra…
This article addresses learning, educational and activity-related prospects upon entering into retirement age and the search for meaning in one's career associated with this. The topic is explored at various levels: first of all autobiographically taking the example of a new, self-employed orientation. At the second level, the case example can be interpreted as part of a societal trend towards activities crossing the age border. Finally prospects for the topic in the context of adult education …
The focus of this article is on the necessity of competences and qualifications in the lower job segment of the labour market and the applicability of educational programs to acquire these and encourage people with low skills to participate in lifelong learning. Various requirement profiles of literacy in the work context are described. The importance of operational multipliers used in job-related basic education is pointed out. Exemplary methods, used in GRAWiRa in order to concretize basic ed…
The report presents first results of a study dealing with the whereabouts of former participants of literacy classes. Assuming courses of adult education have a beginning and an end, the authors pursue the phenomena of participants sojourning permanently at adult education courses. Taken data material into account, the reconstruction of possible reasons for staying in the courses finally leads to the demand for an initial consulting – analogical to the starting and learning consultation in the …
In Germany numerous instruments exist for the documentation of individual activities of lifelong learning in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts. Under the heading of »education passport« alone there are 48 different activities. A systematical and comprehensive approach to the recording, documentation and evaluation of knowledge, skills and competences is lacking up to now. The authors of the DIE project BIBER plumb the chances for a convergence process, which however faces pro…
