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Dargestellt werden Methoden und Zwischenergebnisse der Evaluation im Rahmen des Projektmanagements der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellversuchs Lebenslanges Lernen.
The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
Die Dokumentation der im Rahmen des Projekts „Netzwerk Grundqualifikationen“ durchgeführten Zukunftswerkstatt beschreibt die einzelnen Phasen und Arbeitsschritte sowie neu entwickelte Projektideen. Zu folgenden Themenkomplexen wurde gearbeitet: Inhalte/Methoden/Konzepte, Strukturen/Gesellschaft und Kooperation/Vernetzung. Außerdem sind eine Zeittafel zu Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und ein Beitrag zur Methode der Zukunftswerkstatt enthalten.
Biography orientation and didactics Deliberations for the guidance of biographical learning in adult education In the practice of adult education methods and concepts of biographical learning have since long been integral part of didactical deliberations and they are newly made subject of discussion again and again with changing reasons and terms. For some time the concept of "Biographizität" is referred to in these discussions without the relevance of this term, which was developed in the …
Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, welche Wirkung und Auswirkung Kommunikation im Lernprozess von Erwachsenen hat. Dabei wird auf vor allem auf erwachsenenpädagogische Methoden eingegangen.
Initial results of the Level One Survey Germany (leo.) show that functional illiteracy affects 14.5 percent of working-age population (18–64 years of age). This translates into 7.5 million people who lack functional literacy skills in Germany. We will first introduce the method and design of the study. We will then explain the decisions taken in order to obtain the estimate of the dimension of functional illiteracy. These decisions were carefully taken, and they have contributed to a rather con…
The Future Workshop was originally developed for citizen groups with limited resources who wanted a say in the decision making process. It is a technique meant to shed light on a common problematic situation, to generate visions about the future, and to discuss how these visions can be realised. The paper describes the origin of the method. The methodological steps (phases) of the method are explained and in the second part there is a discussion of the strengths and weakness of the approach gu…
