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Die Lehr-/Lernforschung in der Weiterbildung hat sich lange Zeit auf die sozialen und biografischen Voraussetzungen und Rahmungen Lebenslangen Lernens konzentriert. Demgegenüber fanden die Lehr- und Lernprozesse in Veranstaltungen der Erwachsenenbildung vergleichsweise wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Das Gleiche galt für deren Wirkungen, sowohl im Blick auf Lernzuwächse und Interessen als auch auf ihren Transfer in den Lebens- und Arbeitsalltag der Teilnehmenden. Dies änderte sich jedoch im Laufe der let…
Manchen Einflüssen ist die Erwachsenenbildung einfach ausgesetzt: den bildungspolitischen Schwerpunktsetzungen der Europäischen Kommission etwa, den Ergebnissen international vergleichender Studien oder einem Interview in der ZEIT, in dem der Nobelpreisträger James Heckman Dinge sagt, die die Erwachsenenbildung betreffen. Was diese Impulse bedeuten, leuchten die Beiträge von Tippelt und Schmidt-Hertha sowie das Gespräch« aus. Andere Impulse möchte die Redaktion bewusst setzen. Zu diesem Zweck…
Der vorliegende Bericht beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der bundesweiten alphamonitor-Erhebung des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. zum Weiterbildungsangebot in der Alphabetisierung/Grundbildung für das Berichtsjahr 2016. Zu diesem unter bildungs- und sozialpolitischen Gesichtspunkten wichtigen Themenfeld der Erwachsenenbildung werden Daten zu Umfang und Ausrichtung des Angebots in den beiden Teilbereichen, zur Teilnahme, zu den Lehrenden…
The staff in adult and continuing education is the most important factor for a high quality and demand-oriented development of training courses and their effective implementation. However, there existed only insufficient data and information on these persons. For the first time, the wb-personalmonitor now provides data on demographics, employment situation, living conditions, job profiles, qualifications as well as job related attitudes for the staff in adult and continuing education. Thus, the…
The German Adult Education Centres (VHS) consider themselves as further learning institutions for all whose aim it is to address the population at large. However, the data basis on the extent to which socially disadvantaged groups are reached is restricted. The present contribution investigates to which extent persons with a low level of school education are represented among the participants of the Adult Education Centres in Berlin. The investigation is linked to previous results of the resear…
Organisation and growth of the continuing training market is increasingly taking place within the private economic sector. There also is increasing reporting coverage of continuing training in accordance with the significance of lifelong learning for societal participation and the retention of occupational competences. In order to enable an accurate picture of the situation and developments of providers of general and vocational education and training to be given, it would be useful to have a k…
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…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
In view of the demographic change the investments in education for elderly population are becoming increasingly more important. At the same time the educational system’s endeavours of repair are rather targeted at the very young. How can the educational investments be divided usefully between the old and the young? By showing examples of Scandinavian countries, the author elucidates a double strategy of high educational investments for the phase of youth and in adult life. The countries have su…
