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The country portrait in the English language gives a brief but comprehensive insight into Denmark’s further education system. It outlines the legal foundations, describes the adult education institutions and provides information on participants and personnel (incl. statistical material). The portrait is completed with explanations relating to financing, international contacts and university establishments. It also reports extensively on the most recent changes in Danish adult education after th…
Internationalität gewinnt für den Weiterbildungsbereich zunehmend an Bedeutung, doch ist ihr konkrete Mehrwert ("Added Value") für die erwachsenenpädagogische Praxis eine bislang schwer zu definierende Größe. Dieser Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Evaluation von rund 100 internationalen Kooperationsprojekten, die im Rahmen des EU-Programmes SOKRATES gefördert wurden. Zahlreiche Beispiele zeigen die derzeit bestehenden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen europäischer Kooperation auf, schlußfolgernd …
A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
Anna Siemsen beschäftigte sich mit einem arbeitsbezogenen Bildungsbegriff und der doppelten Herausforderung der Frauenbildung als hauswirtschaftliche und berufsbildende Aufgabenstellung. Zwischen 1923 und 1933 war sie in vielfältigen Zusammenhängen der Erwachsenenbildung einbezogen. Ihr bedeutendster Artikel zur Erwachsenenbildung „Extensive und intensive Bildung“, indem sie ihre sozialistische Position im Richtungsstreit darlegte, erschien in der Zeitschrift „Sozialistische Bildung“ (1929).
The article describes how community learning, a special form of adult education in Ireland, generates benefits for both the individual and the society. The authors’ elaborations are empirically based on the reports »At the Forefront«, »Community Education: More than just a Course« and »Sowing the Seeds of Social Change«, conducted by the Irish National Adult Learning Organization (AONTAS).
Proceeding from the educational policy objective of achieving greater participation in continuing education, this article presents a set of instruments with which the learning and educational behaviour of adults can be measured statistically. Taking the example of data selected from the Continuing Education Reporting System (Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW)) and the Adult Education Survey (AES), the potential for analysis and the generation of knowledge offered by statistics on continuing edu…
Based on data collected in the OECD project »Social Outcomes of Learning (SOL)«, empirical research findings and resulting policy recommendations were generated in the report »Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education«, which are presented in this shortened and translated version. Due to the overall sparse empirical evidence of benefit research, future research forms and necessary methodological approaches are outlined.
Going out from the »UN ECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development« of March 2005 the author describes which challenges have arisen from the establishment of the perspective of sustainability. In an overview of the different areas of adult education it becomes obvious, how variable the concept of ESD finds acceptance (adult evening classes, environmental education, global learning, academies). Eventually the contribution encourages to comprehend ESD as a chance for adult education an…
In Germany, participation in continuing education has been on a respectable level since 2012. In 2016, 50 per cent of all adults were active in continuing education and training. Based on these findings, the Adult Education Survey (AES) 2016 provides numerous detailed results, which are presented in the final evaluation report. The authors of this report analyse and comment the representative data with regard to key issues, such as: Who are the participants of continuing education and for what …
