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Educational training frameworks have been implemented throughout the entire world since the 1980s in reaction to educational training policy exigencies and the need for economic reforms. This article makes systematic distinctions between educational training frameworks and describes specific national forms. By the same token, it is evident that the systematic inclusion of general, vocational and university educational training has been sought more or less throughout the world in order to make…
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…
This article describes the “Dorfbildungstage” ("Village Education Days” as a specific instructional format widely used in the valleys of the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol. The format's regional importance comes from the fact that it integrates an inter-ethnic factor. In these largely rural communities, where differences between ethnic groups are always in the foreground, the village education days form a culture whereby German and Italian ethnic groups shape village learning togeth…
This article about European networks as support for lifelong learning starts with an attempt to define the differences between European projects and European networks. The European Association for the education of Adults (EAEA) is put forward as an example of a European network. It focuses on the association’s mission statement, its aims and activities and how it can support adult learning in Europe. In this way it also demonstrates how these networks can reinforce transnational cooperation and…
Ausgangspunkt dieser Materialien war die Fachbereichskonferenz Kulturelle Bildung 1993. Neben den Referaten zu den Themen Kulturelle Bildung im Kontext von Weiterbildung, Medien- und Erlebniskultur, Interkulturelles Lernen und Kulturmanagement enthalten sie Anmerkungen zu den Arbeitsgruppen, Literaturhinweise und eine Auswertung ausgewählter statistischer Materialien zur Kulturellen Bildung an Volkshochschulen. Deutlich werden dabei die aktuelle Vielfalt Kultureller Bildung und die Herausforder…
Debatten sind das »Lebenselixier der Demokratie« – so überschreibt Benedikt Widmaier sein »Stichwort«. Damit Debatten und gesellschaftliche Diskurse einlösen können, was ihnen an Demokratie stärkender, fördernder, gar schaffender Wirkung nachgesagt wird, reicht es nicht aus, die eigene Meinung kundzutun, zu posten oder zu tweeten. Dies gilt besonders in den sozialen Medien, so dass Caja Thimm eine »digitale Werteordnung« fordert. Dass wir Räume für konstruktiven Streit benötigen (Thomas Krüge…
