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Um Organisationsstrukturen einer Weiterbildungseinrichtung deuten und verstehen zu können, werden in diesem Studientext zunächst Begriffe und Ansätze der Organisationstheorie aus verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen vorgestellt. Nach einer Diskussion der externen gesellschaftlichen Ursachen für die Aktualität des Themas „Organisation in der Weiterbildung“ im zweiten Kapitel widmen sich die beiden Autoren dem internen Gestaltwandel der Weiterbildungsprogramme und fragen nach dem „Spezifischen“…
The Plan to market transition brought with it the restructuring of the labour market, but also unemployment, new job profiles, and ongoing reform of the education system. Within the catch-up process of joining the EU and harmonizing the legislative framework and developments with the aquis communautaire, the effort to set up and implement effective policies was relatively coherent. But the results achieved so far show that much more efforts are needed, as the participation rate of adults in edu…
A system helping individuals assess their own skills, the ProfilPASS is currently being tested as a human resource development tool at ten business enterprises. The authors describe conditions encouraging success, implementation processes and preliminary results in the scholarly support effort.
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…
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…
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.
