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Personal and organisational educational counselling The need for support in the search for tailor-made educational programmes is growing along with the ongoing individualisation of educational pathways. Counselling of individuals and organisations is gaining importance in this context. This issue focuses both on new theories as well as educational policy developments, devoting attention to current challenges in various fields of action: the training of vocational counsellors, research of coun…
Man sollte annehmen, dass Blended Learning inzwischen weit verbreitet und als Lernform ausgereift ist. Am Beispiel betrieblicher Weiterbildung zeigt sich, dass dies nicht überall zutrifft. Was sind die Gründe dafür? Wo liegen Potenziale für die Weiterentwicklung? Darüber spricht Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Dr. Katja Bett, Gründerin der CLC – Corporate Learning & Change GmbH, Heiko Miedlich, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Working Evolutions GmbH und Head of Business Development der WBwbS …
Lifelong learning on a high quality level is a condition for participation in further economical and social developments in society. But how are lifelong learning activities to be financed? Are projects of the European Union the key for solving financial problems of institutional and organized learning? The author describes his experiences made with the acquisition of EU-projects. The article points out difficulties and problems in the process of acquisition, searching partners and trying to co…
The article describes reasons, targets, elements and areas of applications of the concept of gender democratic didactics in adult education. The author investigates prepositions and consequences to pedagogical acting, methodical structuring and basic conditions of educational processes. Finally the concept of gender democratic didactics must not stop in front of the institutional structures. Gender perspective should become part of quality management and organisational and personal development …
“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
Die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft ist als gesellschaftliches Großereignis auch ein kollektiver Lernanlass – Grund genug für eine Weiterbildungszeitschrift, dem Thema ein Heft zu widmen. Jochen Kade deutet das Ereignis als „Lernzumutung” und meint damit nicht nur die „Erziehungs-Beziehung” zwischen dem DFB und dem deutschen Trainergespann um Jürgen Klinsmann. Dass der Identitätsbildung durch Fußball durchaus Grenzen gesetzt sind, erklärt Daniel Cohn-Bendit in einer europäischen Perspektive. Ein biss…
