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Strategies for the strengthening of networking work Selected results from the context of the programme of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research “Learning culture and competency development” A large number of publications on the subject matter of network are engaged with the conditions of the initiation as well as the management of networks. An issue that has so far been neglected in research however poses the question of the strengthening of networking work. The initiation of netw…
Within the framework of the PISA discussion, adult education must discover the parents as an affected part of the public more than has as yet been the case. Parents need scientifically founded summary knowledge as a basis for decision-making (for example concerning the educational orientation of their children), and professional guidance in matters of the enhancement of learning capacity at an early age.
Hans Georg Rosenstein describes the objectives and priorities of the renewed European Agenda for Adult Learning, which was adopted by the European Council in 2011. Both, the role of the European Commission are analyzed as well as the tools and budget for the agenda’s implementation. The article concludes with a critical classification of »Erasmus for all«, the new EU-programme for general and vocational education.
In the context of lifelong learning, the validation of prior learning has become a contested topic. Views differ about whether procedures should be oriented to (work) requirements – verifying that people match a defined competence profile – or be designed to support people in their personal development. In the latter case, the procedures mainly involve self-evaluation while in the first case they are concerned with external evaluation. In this paper a validation procedure is analysed that inclu…
Im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Marco Rieckmann von der Universität Vechta wird deutlich, dass es unterschiedliche Verständnisse von Nachhaltigkeit und unterschiedliche Zugänge zu Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) und transformativer Bildung gibt. Wie diese Zugänge aussehen und welche Kompetenzen man für und in BNE benötigt, fragte Redakteur Jan Rohwerder.
Wo stehen wir, und was erwarten wir in Sachen »Educational Technologies«? Wird Europa, wird Deutschland von den internationalen Trends abgehängt? Der Autor analysiert die aktuelle Situation der EdTech- Branche und zeigt mögliche Ansatzpunkte für eine Förderung des bildungstechnologischen Sektors.
Was sind die politischen Ursprünge einer Validierung von non-formal und informell erworbenen Kompetenzen in Europa? Dieser Frage geht der Autor nach und plädiert für eine Sicht auf Kompetenzanerkennung, die zwischen Validierung als Konzept und Validierung als Prozess unterscheidet. Versteht man nämlich Validierung als Prozess, gehe es um die Wertschätzung des Lernens in alltäglichen Situationen und um die Lebenserfahrungen der Menschen. Verlässliche Validierungsinstrumente würden die individuel…
Ausgehend von einer skeptischen Einschätzung der zukünftigen Entwicklung der Chancengleichheit im Weiterbildungsbereich plädiert der Autor in Anlehnung an einen Gedanken von Friedrich Edding aus dem Jahr 1988, einen Bundesrahmenordnung zur beruflichen Weiterbildung für eine Neuordnung der Lernchancen zu schaffen. Dafür werden die Themenfelder skizziert.
The primary objective of guidance and counselling in continuing education and training is its focus on customers by means of changing perspective on their interests and concerns as a key principle for processes, methods and tools. Quality of guidance services is the outcome of well-planned and structured approaches respectively customer-focused guidance procedures. It is also the result of a process in each individual counselling situation and cannot be completely regulated by institutional and…
Continuing digitalisation is a macrosocial phenomenon – dealing with it is a macrosocial task. For the educational field, it does not only concern a change of teaching-learning situations due to digital media but also the issue of contributing to the changing situation - without excluding certain groups. According to the author, the issue of digitalisation does not allow federal disputes and segment-specific separation of educational areas.
