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Ob Sachbücher, Internet oder Fernsehformate wie Quarks & Co: Das Wissen der Wissenschaften steht derzeit hoch im Kurs. Nur in der organisierten Erwachsenenbildung kommt davon nicht viel an. Das Buch bündelt Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts, das Vermittlungsformen wissenschaftlichen Wissens außerhalb der organisierten Erwachsenenbildung gesichtet und auf ihre Brauchbarkeit in der Weiterbildung hin befragt hat. Mit den vorliegenden Ergebnissen erhält das disponierende Personal in Bildungseinri…
Im DIE-Gespräch "Gleichstellung statt Frauen-Trimm-Dich" äußert sich Veronika Pahl, Abteilungsleiterin im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) zu Zielen von Frauenförderung, konkreten Hemmnissen für Frauen in der Weiterbildung und Eckpunkten einer neuen Gleichstellungspolitik. In einem Beitrag von Sylvia Kade, Angela Franz-Balsen und Susanne Offenbartl werden Zahlen, Thesen, Fragen zur Weiterbildungsteilnahme von Frauen, zu Weiterbildungsangeboten und zur Nachfrage sowie zur Wirks…
Arnold, Rolf; Lermen, Markus: The systematic of the need: „It is actually about something quite different“ For professionals in the departments of adult education the question of the different starting points, strategies and methods of needs analysis, respectively of making information on needs accessible, has an important role on the way into a market orientated adult education. The question of need sometimes grows into a meaning of large dimension, which makes the impression that this emp…
Education Programmes under one Roof. The new EU action Programme for Life-long Learning (p. 34-37). The new EU education programme PLL (Programme for life-long learning) aims at combining the previous programmes SOKRATES II and LEONARDO DA VINCI II under the same roof, and hence extends the previous range of opportunities for financial backing through a cross-section programme which enables cooperation outside the boundaries of education. The article gives an overview about the complete program…
Functional illiteracy is often perceived as being connected to a strong taboo. Nevertheless new empirical results show, that there is a widespread personal knowledge about functional illiterates. About 40?% of adults know someone who shows low performance in literacy. This knowledge theoretically offers great potential to inform those performing low in reading and/or writing about possibilities in Adult Basic Education. This potential however is by far not fully exploited. By the majority those…
The demographic development in Germany will lead to the society servicing more older people than younger people. Against this background the contribution shows in which way institutions of communal adult education are called upon for developing specific offers that consider the different educational requirements and educational necessities of a very heterogeneous age group. By means of examples from the work at adult evening classes (Volkshochschulen) the author clarifies how contents, teaching…
