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The study Competencies in Later Life (CiLL) provides for the first time representative data regarding the competencies of older people between the age of 66 to 80 years in three different domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It is shown that there are significant differences between people with different qualification, but also between people of different birth cohorts. Despite major qualification differences between men and women, there are no signi…
Construction of reflexive acting in work related learning adult education in the context of the company With the arising of post industrial work relations employment contracts, learning and further education develop to an important factor of success in companies. In an increasingly customer orientated and globalized economy, a reflective work action has become possible and necessary both in view of subject related developments and work environments and structures. This double reflexibility …
Die Frage nach der Lernfähigkeit und der Lernmotivation Älterer hat eine lange Geschichte. Trotz vieler gegenteiliger Belege hielt sich bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts die Annahme, dass die Lernfähigkeit kontinuierlich, biologisch bedingt, abnimmt. In den 1980ern Jahren kam es zu einem Perspektivenwechsel. Schon damals zeichnete ich ein demographischer Wandel ab. Alter - bisher vor allem ein medizinisches Thema - wurde nun auch sozialwissenschaftlich und pädagogisch diskutiert. In…
The author investigates whether, to which extent and due to which motivation migrants participate in general further education programmes of the City-Volkshochschule (adult education school) of Berlin. Results: The ethnic composition of the city district is not mirrored in that of the course participants. Whichever their formal education, migrants are more than German course participants motivated on the personal level.
Adult pedagogical responsibility in the interpretation and explanation of empirical results for knowledge-based education needs analysis Education needs analyses often appear in a picture of the "comparison" of definable desired value and measured actual value. Thereby mostly the impression of deficits arise. Depending on the arrangement of a needs analysis, therewith in a special way questions are posed concerning the processing and application of the empirical data material, especially w…
