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Scientific Training and Further Education on Career Guidance in International Comparison Most international experts insist that neutral and efficient career guidance can only be guaranteed by a very high professional proficiency of the counsellors. In recent years qualification offers for trainers have huge differences in both quality and contents of training. The contribution illustrates, on the basis of international studies, the efforts to establish European standards of qualifications fo…
Resistance against education and learning as a result of pedagogical and didactic acting: The article reports two research projects in adult education at the University of Kaiserslautern focusing identity-relevant and emotional aspects of learning resistance. While both aspects are rather neglected in the research on education and learning they are substantial for the understanding of learning resistance phenomena as well as for the reconstruction of the own pedagogical practice.
Resistance against education and learning as a result of pedagogical and didactic acting: The article reports two research projects in adult education at the University of Kaiserslautern focussing identity-relevant and emotional aspects of learning resistance. While both aspects are rather neglected in the research on education and learning they are substantial for the understanding of learning resistance phenomena as well as for the reconstruction of the own pedagogical practice.
Seit den Kontaktbeschränkungen im Zuge der COVID 19-Pandemie sind hybride Veranstaltungen zu einem der meistdiskutierten Formate in der Erwachsenenbildung geworden. Zwei Jahre später wird weiterhin über wesentliche Parameter gelungener Hybrid-Veranstaltungen beraten, doch strukturierte (didaktische) Ressourcen für Veranstalter sowie systematische Überlegungen und Empfehlungen für Durchführende seien noch eine Seltenheit, so die Autorin. Sie bietet einen Überblick über Charakteristika von und Ke…
Im Bereich der Sozialen Arbeit werden Diskussionen um Lebenswelt und Sozialraumansätze seit langem geführt. Die Autorin überträgt die Erkenntnisse dieser Diskussionen auf die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung und zeigt auf, wie diese für die Veranstaltungsplanung und Ansprache von schwer zu erreichenden Zielgruppen eingesetzt werden können.
Educational management as constellation of action comb By means of empirical results on action of management in adult educational institutions and -organisations in this contribution it is worked out that management is linked to a term of education and is ingrained into the institution specifics.
The German Institute for Adult Education (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung) in Bonn annually publishes this continuing training statistics, in which data from five large organizations of general and political further training are summarized. The commentated tables contain numerous illustrations to the legal form, personnel, financing and meeting profiles of the training organizations involved.
