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A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
Das Lehrbuch stellt das Lehren und Lernen Erwachsener ins Zentrum der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, das als ein Mehrebenensystem betrachtet wird. Unterschieden werden die Ebene der bildungspolitischen Steuerung, die Ebene der Organisationen, in denen Aufgaben der Leitung, des Managements und der Programm- und Angebotsentwicklung verortet sind, sowie die Ebene der Lehr-, Lern- und Beratungsprozesse. Die Wirkungen der Erwachsenenbildung werden als Ergebnis einer Ko-Konstruktion der Handlungen v…
The DIE (German Centre for Adult Education) programme “Learning in Social Spaces”, the social quarter approach is a key element of the inclusion matter. Focused on the social environment, continuing education can include the local community and the resulting participation and networking potentials. The article discusses extracts of interviews conducted with representatives of adult education centres in Berlin and Hamburg, revealing the extent of social space orientation work in the context of i…
Dieses Statement zum DIE-Forum „Zukunftsfelder in der Weiterbildung“ markiert einige Konsequenzen, die sich aus einer steigenden Zahl diskontinuierlicher Erwerbsbiografien für die Weiterbildungslandschaft ergeben: für Weiterbildungsanbieter (Entwicklung von der Angebots- zur Nachfrageorientierung) und für Fragen der Finanzierung (bisherige Aufteilung zwischen Betrieben, Staat und Individuum ist ungeeignet). Kritisch setzt sich Heidemann mit Programmen so genannter „Bildungskonten“ auseinander u…
The supplement to the annual report is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/36996. A shortened version of the annual report in English is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/37095.
The supplement to the annual report is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/36783. A shortened version of the annual report in English is to be found at http://www.die-bonn.de/id/36839.
The author traces the change in paradigm in educational policy from the perspective of the Ministry in charge as a »fundamental empirical change«. It shows structures and framework conditions underlying pertinent major projects (National Educational Panel, technology-based testing, the Programme for Empirical Educational Research) and draws attention to the output and competence orientation as their “leitmotif”. By the same token it views educational policy and educational research as being dep…
Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
