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Educational training frameworks constitute an intervention in the context of strategies of the European Space for Lifelong Learning. It poses critical questions regarding the consistency of initiatives seeking to create transparency of activities, skills and qualifications in different fields of policy independently of one another.
John Locke formulierte im Nachfolgenden, die Regeln eines Debating-Clubs. Die Teilnahme ist demnach weder an den Stand noch an Bildungsabschlüsse gebunden. Sie verlangt aber Wahrheitsliebe, Interesse an der Sache, Respekt, Verantwortungsübernahme und die Anerkennung der moralischen, religiösen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen.
Die Nationalerziehungserziehungspläne lehnten sich zu dieser Zeit an das Konzept an, das Jean Marie de Condorcet 1794 in seiner Schrift „Sur l’instruction des homes“ entwickelt hatte. Im nachfolgenden Dokument werden zentrale Passagen aufgeführt.
Die Validierung von non-formal und informell erworbener Kompetenzen wird zur Zeit breit diskutiert, zumeist aber unter dem Blickwinkel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Die Autorin plädiert dafür, Validierung auch zu einem Thema der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung zu machen. Denn: Im Sinne einer Chancenermöglichung kann Validierung dazu beitragen, Teilhabe zu ermöglichen – ein erklärtes Ziel der Erwachsenenbildung.
Functional illiteracy is often perceived as being connected to a strong taboo. Nevertheless new empirical results show, that there is a widespread personal knowledge about functional illiterates. About 40?% of adults know someone who shows low performance in literacy. This knowledge theoretically offers great potential to inform those performing low in reading and/or writing about possibilities in Adult Basic Education. This potential however is by far not fully exploited. By the majority those…
From the principle of the regulated occupation to the supremacy of certification: fields of conflict en route to the German qualifications framework (DQR) This article addresses the central difficulties observed in the search for consensus during the current development of a national German qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR). As well as the difficulty in blending in the German national “dual system” of vocational training with the EQF, the main difficulties identi…
Voluntary work 2.0? Media-related conditions for voluntary work in the Internet A participation culture has developed in the Internet which is broadly discussed under the rubric of “Web 2.0” and which is explored in this article to determine the principles of voluntary work operating here. To this end the author first forwards a definition of voluntary work in “offline” reality before examining the communications-related conditions prevailing in the Internet upon which a conception of volun…
