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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…
Regulations relating to training release (training leave) now exist in eight EU states. Where they exist, insufficient transparency and counselling, resistance in companies and fear for jobs have been ascertained in those eligible. There is frequently a lack of political will to make training release more effective for lifelong learning. In a Socrates project (1998–2000) with partners from Belgium, France, Italy and Germany the question of whether training release can be a strategy for the pr…
Regelungen zur Bildungsfreistellung (Bildungsurlaub) gibt es bislang in acht EU-Staaten. Wo sie existieren, werden mangelnde Transparenz und Beratung, Widerstände in den Unternehmen und bei den Anspruchsberechtigten Angst um den Arbeitsplatz festgestellt. Vielfach fehlt es am politischen Willen, Bildungsfreistellung für lebenslanges Lernen wirksamer werden zu lassen. In einem Sokrates-Projekt (1998–2000) mit Partnern aus Belgien, Frankreich, Italien und Deutschland stand die Frage im Mittelpu…
I regolamenti per il congedo formativo (congedo per motivi di studio e formazione) sono contemplati nel frattempo in otto stati dell’UE. Laddove essi esistano, è possibile accertare casi di insufficiente trasparenza e consulenza, di resistenza all’interno delle aziende e di timori giustificati circa il posto di lavoro. Manca spesso la volontà politica di rendere più efficace lo strumento di congedo formativo ai fini di un costante apprendimento. In un progetto Socrate (1998–2000) con i partne…
Des règlements concernant des dispenses de travail pour cause de formation (congés de formation) ont été mises en place jusqu’à présent dans huit pays de l’Union Européenne. Là où elles existent, il a pu être constaté un manque de transparence et de conseil, des résistances au sein des entreprises et, chez les ayants droit, une certaine crainte de perdre leur emploi. Il manque la plupart du temps une éducation citoyenne permettant de rendre ces congés de formation plus attrayants pour une éduca…
Trends with expectations and pretensions in further education in the context of changed work place conditions It is worked out in the contribution that because of changed work place conditions, especially in the area of information and communication technologies, an altered need for further education has developed. Concluding, possible consequences for the providers of adult education are sketched
Zum siebten Mal nach 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1983 und 1994 widmet die Sektion Erwachsenenbildung der DGfE ihre Jahrestagung der Diskussion theoretischer Grundlagen und Bezüge der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft. Der Plenumsvortrag von Klaus Prange hat den Titel: Die vielen Erziehungswissenschaften und die eine Pädagogik. Die fünf Arbeitsgruppen beschäftigen sich mit folgenden Themen: Arbeitsgruppe 1: Theoretische Bezüge der Erwachsenenbildung Arbeitsgruppe 2: Theoretische Grundlagen didakt…
“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
Within the process of socio-political transition adult education is an important tool for Eastern Europeans to orientate themselves in their rapidly changing social environment and to find new professional perspectives. Nevertheless, there are many obstacles blocking the way to the participation of all ethnic groups of the former Soviet Union in adult education courses. The article intends to show that besides various objective reasons, e.g. the disastrous economical situation, there are sever…
