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Empirically based on interviews, the article gets to the bottom of how independent travelers address their educational experiences. Visitors of the Dogon people in Mali are confronted with an inaccessible unfamiliarity, whereas voyagers to Ladakh are irritated by the prevalent differences inducing the reflection of their individual experiences. Educational qualities can be attributed to both forms of experience.
Recently, the acceptance of statistics in the education sector has grown. As a consequence of the publication of international comparative studies like TIMSS and PISA, more attention is paid to statistical surveys, as they have brought to light quite a number of hitherto unknown facts. Alexandra Ioannidou describes the present state of statistical activities in the further education sector and outlines what possible gains there are for institutions employing statistics.
Against the self-misunderstanding of quasi therapists within the adult education scene The topic will squirm itself around a complicated relation when it is about naming the establishment of psycho therapists’ “elements” and thereby simultaneous medical “elements” within the practice of further education and concerning this matter simultaneous commenting when esoterical components are added. This interconnection shall be debated system theoretically. Finally the question of regulating possib…
Was bedeutet es, die Wirkung von Weiterbildung zu messen? Was kann überhaupt wie gemessen werden? Und stellen sich in der Wissenschaft, in der Praxis und bei Fördergebern unterschiedliche Fragen bezüglich der Wirkung von Bildungsprozessen? Hierüber sprach Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Martin, Leiter der Abteilung System und Politik am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) und Professor für Bildungswissenschaft an der FernUniversität in Hagen, und Dr. Sabine Schwarz, Le…
Die Arbeitsbedingungen in der öffentlich finanzierten, außerbetrieblichen beruflichen Weiterbildung im Geltungsbereich des SGB II/III sind prekär. Wie diese Arbeitsbedingungen verbessert werden können, legt der Autor, Branchenkoordinator Weiterbildung bei der ver.di-Bundesverwaltung, anhand eines Blicks auf den Mindestlohn-Tarifvertrag Weiterbildung und weitere tarifpolitische Optionen dar.
This paper shows which quality standards are relevant for higher education and business perspective in the development and establishment of successful occupational studying programs. The aim is to record the expectations of universities and companies of quality in the context of continuing higher education. The level of the students is deliberately not placed in the center to allow the institutional view on cooperation. The methods used in connection with these studies are guideline-based int…
Voluntary engagement is firmly integrated in the structures of our society. To be able to foster it, one has to understand who is engaged and why. Drawing on data of PIAAC and CiLL surveys, the authors show that age is not a relevant factor in why someone is engaged. Rather, education is a key factor in taking up volunteering activities. This, it is shown, is also true for non-formal activities of adult education.
How can continuing education in actual practice really use empirical data on the area of continuing education? The author, a business manager at an adult college special-purpose association, demonstrates in his article the practical potential offered by empirical educational research. The data generated serve as a comparative parameter for local statistics and can help identify and corroborate fields of development. He elucidates this using the examples of milieu marketing and course leader qua…
The study text provides an introduction to the topic migration and further education with particular attention to the different educational needs of adults with a migrant background. As a starting point, central terms and events in the history of migration in Germany are discussed. Against this background, the current challenges for further education due to migration-related diversity are highlighted. Moreover, the training situation and participation of adults with a migrant background is disc…
Der Umgang mit Unsicherheiten, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Ambivalenzen stellt eine individuelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Herausforderung dar. Das Heft möchte Ambiguität und Ambivalenz in ihren verschiedenen Bezügen zur Erwachsenenbildung theoretisch und empirisch betrachten. Dabei soll der ambivalente Charakter von Ambiguität als bildungsproduktives und zuweilen auch -hinderliches Phänomen deutlich werden.
