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Functional illiteracy is often perceived as being connected to a strong taboo. Nevertheless new empirical results show, that there is a widespread personal knowledge about functional illiterates. About 40?% of adults know someone who shows low performance in literacy. This knowledge theoretically offers great potential to inform those performing low in reading and/or writing about possibilities in Adult Basic Education. This potential however is by far not fully exploited. By the majority those…
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…
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…
