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The demographic change and the growing demand of skilled workers in Germany puts workers with migration background in the focus of interest in politics, economy, research and, increasingly, of adult education. The following article analyses empirically the relationship between the socio-cultural determinants, which are theoretically embedded in Esser’s model of social integration, and the participation in further vocational education of working adults with a migration background in Germany on t…
Vocational adult education research Data situation, research questions and selected results Likewise the meaning of adult education the number of reseach works with this theme increase. Prerequisite for interpretation and classification of the present results of adult education research is the knowledge of the underlying sources of data and information. The text at hand gives an overview of the data situation in the area of vocational adult education whereas it features also company ques…
Competence or authorization? PISA – a challenge also for adult education and research PISA also provokes adult education and adult pedagogy to a new evaluation of the prerequisites of participation in adult education and the meaning of “making up for” by means of adult education, of a heterogenous programme which has received less attention since the reform of education. Therefore this contribution scetches the state of the art of the compensatory education for adults (basic education, scho…
Die empirische Untersuchung beleuchtet zwei zentrale dunkle Flecken in der Erwachsenenpädagogik: Sie richtete den Blick auf die Lernenden und nicht, wie sonst üblich auf die Lehrenden - und sie analysiert die Praxis betrieblicher Weiterbildung. Die Betrachtung des Bildungsprozesses aus der Perspektive der Lernenden und ihrer Lernbegründungen ist eigenwillig und irritierend. Die Ergebnisse werfen neues Licht auf die Bildungschancen, die in betrieblichen Modernisierungsprozessen bestehen. Meth…
