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Scientific Education This issue combines empirical and conceptual access points to research of an area of education which has been for the most part neglected by continuing education: What role does natural science knowledge play in the context of informal and non-formal learning processes of adults? And what impetus can be derived for the structure and design of teaching-learning arrangements in other areas? This issue provides insight into specific issues, providing a contribution to inter…
Dargestellt werden Methoden und Zwischenergebnisse der Evaluation im Rahmen des Projektmanagements der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellversuchs Lebenslanges Lernen.
A planned offer of further education organisations, orientated by the participant`s needs and interests, implies empirically confirmed data. The situation of data concerning further education behaviour and -interests of migrants in Germany referring to this is however moderate. This is on the one hand due to the definition problem of such constructs as “further education” and “people from migrant background” and adjunct to the difficulties with the operationalisation. On the other hand the data…
The latest number of the Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (»Further Education Report System«) of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research marks a trend reversal: whereas in the last periods under review an increase in the attendance of further education courses was to be observed, currently attendance is regressive by five percent points – particularly in general further education. The author presumes that one reason for this is education’s focussing on the labour market perspective, an atti…
How does knowledge come into science of adult education? The research undertaking of the author is sketched, in which an honouring of publications and the time-line of the lasting acknowledgement is to be explored.
Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und die Bund-Länder-Kommission fördern die Entwicklung, Bekanntmachung und Etablierung von Qualitätskonzepten, die sich vom Ansatz her an den Bedürfnissen und Möglichkeiten von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen orientieren. Eines dieser Konzepte ist das im Rahmen des BLK-Verbundprojekts „Qualitätstestierung in der Weiterbildung“ entwickelte und bis zur Marktreife geförderte Konzept der „Lernerorientierten Qualitätstestierung in der Weiterbildung, Versio…
