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This issue of REPORT focuses on current trends in adult and continuing education in various European countries, with a particular emphasis on the situation in Spain, Romania, Finland, Great Britain and Germany. Documenting the results of an international lecture series held at the University of Essen-Duisburg, the essays, for the first time, are presented in English. The articles gathered in this REPORT may serve as a point of departure for further studies in this area of research and contribut…
This contribution summarizes the most important trends in further education in Germany as they were elaborated in a secondary analytic research project of the DIE (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenbildung – German Institute for Adult Education) in 2007. According to the study, participation in adult education in Germany is increasing after long years of decrease, even though, overall, financing of adult education has been further reduced. Cooperation as well as competition between adult educatio…
Die Literaturrecherche gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen und Diskussionen der Jahre 1995–1999 im Bereich der Gesetzgebung zur Weiterbildung in Deutsch-land; hier insbesondere die Novellierungen der Ländergesetze zur Weiterbildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Niedersachsen und in Rheinland-Pfalz begleitend. Die in der Rubrik „Internationale/vergleichende Darstellungen” zusammengestellte Literatur ermöglicht einen Einblick in die Weiterbildungspolitik und die gesetzlichen Regelungen andere…
