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Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
Die gerechte Gestaltung des Bildungssystems wird von Politikern, allen voran Bildungsministerin Schavan, immer wieder als zentrale Herausforderung der Gegenwart verstanden. In diesem Zusammenhang hat das BMBF jüngst gemeldet, dass die öffentlichen Bildungsausgaben 2010 erstmals die 100 Milliarden Euro überstiegen haben. Es ist nur eine der Fragen dieses Heftes, ob die öffentlichen Ausgaben für Weiterbildung mehr Gerechtigkeit schaffen. Wir fragen grundsätzlicher, was Bildungsgerechtigkeit überh…
Ein einheitliches Recht des lebenslangen Lernens gibt es nicht. Aber eine Vielzahl von bildungsbereichspezifischen Rechts- und Verwaltungsvorschriften, von denen einige die Weiterbildung betreffen. Das Heft trägt die neueren Entwicklungen auf Landes-, Bundes- und europäischer Ebene zusammen und bettet die Erkenntnisse zum Recht ein in eine Diskussion um öffentliche und private Pflichten für das lebenslange Lernen.
With respect to the Spatial Turn, an orientation becomes visible which clearly refers to the materiality of spatial arrangements. This trend to re-establish materiality entails the risk of returning behind the state of the Spatial Turn achieved so far. One opportunity to avoid the “space trap” might be to turn to a topological perspective. Such a perspective in adult education opens up for removing blind spots in the reception of the Spatial Turn and thus for the introduction of a frame that ca…
In the educational facilities of the State Sports Associations of the Bundesländer, open adult education is implemented which serves the goals of formation of personality and enlightenment, furthers maturity, and cultivates social competences, and which is - albeit decreasingly - publicly funded. More than 3.000 full-time and part-time pedagogical staff are employed in these facilities. Nearly 15.000 courses for about 300.000 participants are held. But this is not the only field within sports …
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
References to theory of present research on further education Commonly in the scientific discourse one distinguishes between basic research and implementation orientated research. The latter often takes place as order research that in the ususal case is application orientated and practice orientated. This type of research often exhibits only an implicit reference to theory as several examples show. In this context an intensified co-operation between basic research and implementation orientat…
Organisation psychological profit for adult education using the example of "quality" In this contribution organisation psychological theory concepts and empirical methods are used for the current problem of educational institutions of providing a "quality proof" – in the sense of the implementation of quality management systems -, in order to maintain the continuity of their promotion. Before, the organisational psychology is sketched in its extension level, its methods and its reception beh…
Hanft, Anke; Zentner, Tim: Qualification and personnel development – a competence gap in adult education institutions? Results of an empirical study on qualification of staff in adult education institutions The contribution analyses how adult education institutions and universities prepare their staff with education and training for changed structural requirements and reforms. In the centre are two studies of German state universities and public adult education institutions in the country N…
Was nahe liegt, muss nicht selbstverständlich sein. Für die Erwachsenenbildung ist keineswegs evident, was eigentlich den Erwachsenen konturiert, der sie konstituiert. Zur vertieften Klärung dieses bislang übersehenen und doch fundamentalen Themas gibt es keinen besseren Anlass als das Jubiläum zum 20-jährigen Erscheinen einer Zeitschrift, die die Bildung der Erwachsenen im Namen führt. Wie es scheint, ist die Suche nach dem Erwachsenen auch mit dieser Ausgabe nicht gänzlich erledigt.
