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Die Begriffe Qualifikation und Kompetenz unterliegen seit einigen Jahren einem Bedeutungswandel. Die Beiträge in diesem Heft zeigen aber, dass es um mehr geht als um unterschiedliche Begriffe. Sie behandeln u. a. Themen wie das Lernen im sozialen Umfeld, Kompetenzentwicklung im vernetzten Umfeld, innovative Handlungsmodelle für Kompetenzentwicklung in deutschen Unternehmen, künftig notwendige Qualifikationen und neuartige Ansätze in der beruflichen Weiterbildung und Grundsätzliches zu den Begri…
The article focuses on the development of the global educational discourse from a human rights perspective, particularly with regard to adult education and lifelong learning. The author discusses the historic milestones set by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the consequent understanding of learning as well as the various national implementation strategies of the right for lifelong learning.
Die Audiodatei enthält den Mitschnitt und die Folien des Vortrags von Heino Apel zum Thema „PISA und seine Konsequenzen für Lebenslanges Lernen“ anlässlich des „6. DIE Forum Weiterbildung“ im Dezember 2003. Apel geht auf die biographischen Perspektiven und Interventionspunkte von LLL ein. Er fordert mehr horizontale und vertikale Durchlässigkeit der bisher eher linear angelegten Aus- und Weiterbildungswege und schildert die daraus erwachsenden Konsequenzen für das Individuum und das Bildungssys…
In the future it should be possible for educationally qualified applicants to be able to attend a university without university-entrance certificates acquired in a secondary school. This is meant to help ease the looming shortage of skilled labour in Germany. Facilities in the area of adult education are also to help facilitate the transition to a school of higher learning. The authors of this article report on a promising approach along these lines – the Lower Saxony model project »Open Univer…
The author from the department of further education in the political administration of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate names the trouble spots of the final report of the Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning, insofar they affect the politics of the states (Laender). He outlines the implementation steps which are aimed at by Rhineland-Palatinate.
„Learn habitus“ has its roots in the concept of habitus by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According to Bourdieu the „habitus“ is represented in the whole of all signs of life, i.e. the daily routine, job, clothes, behaviour, taste, value judgement, in which a person is bedded and which has become the person’s second nature. If our behaviour can be understood as ways of expressing the habits, so can be the way we learn. The learn habitus represents the whole of the learning disposition …
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
