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Netzwerke bekommen in der Weiterbildung eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung. Nicht zuletzt wird durch verschiedene bildungspolitische Förderprogramme der vergangenen Jahre die Annahme gestärkt, dass Netzwerke zur Realisierung des Lebenslangen Lernens einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten. Netzwerkbildungen können allerdings nicht nur als Strategie zur Förderung des Lebenslangen Lernens gesehen werden, sondern auch als ein Faktor, der die an den Netzwerken teilnehmenden Weiterbildungseinrichtungen be…
The focus of this article is on the necessity of competences and qualifications in the lower job segment of the labour market and the applicability of educational programs to acquire these and encourage people with low skills to participate in lifelong learning. Various requirement profiles of literacy in the work context are described. The importance of operational multipliers used in job-related basic education is pointed out. Exemplary methods, used in GRAWiRa in order to concretize basic ed…
This article examines the guidelines and objectives of political (societal) and citizenship education in Finland during the past 40 years approximately. During this relatively short period different programmes have arisen which aptly reflect changes which have taken place, in viewpoints, in the social atmosphere and in citizens’ political interests. The article is concerned with the reports of two committees, the Adult Education Committee and the Lifelong Learning Committee, since the beginning…
Counselling: Changes for a Sustainable Development If counselling should survive as a generally accepted human service at the beginning of the 21st century, a fundamental shift in paradigms and the therewith connected development of sustainable offers for counselling becomes necessary. Permanent co-evolution of needs from clients, economy and society calls for specific skills and knowledge for analysis and coping with multiple subjective realities, ecological contexts, non-linear causalities…
Habit, social milieus and the quality of life, learning and teaching The contribution highlights the topic quality in adult education from the perspective of Bourdieu’s theory of the habit and the on this building concept of social milieus. Thereby attention is drawn to some aspects neglected in the discussion that are of special interest to the social actors and the ”theory of practice” which derives from them: the learners, the practical processes on the organisational level and the que…
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.
Dieses Thesenpapier entstand in Anlehnung an einen umfangreicheren Artikel mit gleichlautendem Titel. Es fokussiert 9 Thesen für die zukünftigen Entwicklung sogenannter „Lernender Unternehmen“, die der Autor auf der Grundlage einer Studie der DEKRA Akademie entwickelt.
