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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…
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…
Striving for quality is at the core of pedagogical professionalism. Therefore the science of further education has to intervene in the quality discussion in two ways: Firstly, it must develop criteria by which systems of quality assurance can be compared and by which their appropriateness for the sector of further education can be evaluated. Secondly, it must inquire yet more persistently into the specifics of pedagogical quality and find out what further education science can contribute toward…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
Educational training frameworks have been implemented throughout the entire world since the 1980s in reaction to educational training policy exigencies and the need for economic reforms. This article makes systematic distinctions between educational training frameworks and describes specific national forms. By the same token, it is evident that the systematic inclusion of general, vocational and university educational training has been sought more or less throughout the world in order to make…
In-company further education causes direct and indirect costs that can be divided up between employers and employees in different ways. The article provides an overview of a number of financing models of in-company further education, presenting empirical results of various surveys conducted in enterprises. Not only range of and participation in further education is dealt with, but also the height and composition of further education costs, the timing of qualifying measures, employees’ paying a …
Since the formation of regional entities in the modern age, the concept of „region“ has been interpreted in different ways. While in the after-war years attempts at strengthening structurally weak regions by attracting industry from without (the „exogenous“ strategy) were successful, nowadays the „endogenous“ strategy is becoming relevant, which builds on efforts from within the region. The author maintains that the success of „learning“ regions will depend on the efficiency of the regions’ edu…
Sprachkompetenz gilt als zentrale Voraussetzung für eine nachhaltige Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt. In einem empirischen Forschungsprojekt wurde die Wirkung regulärer Integrationskurse sowie der im Jahr 2015 von der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) kurzfristig eingeführten Deutsch-Einstiegskurse untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen: Während Teilnehmende der regulären Integrationskurse signifikant häufiger eine Beschäftigung aufnahmen als vergleichbare Nichtteilnehmende, ließ sich für die Deutsch-Ei…
As a result of the current migration of several hundreds of thousands refugees in Germany alone, concepts for successful language training become increasingly important. The integration programme funded by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) plays a central role. This article refers to data collected by the author regarding success factors for language learning. In this qualitative study, 51 interviews were conducted with integration programme participants in a reception centre…
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
