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Vor dem Hintergrund der statistischen Datenlage der Weiterbildung und Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung europäischer Aspekte werden die Reichweite und die Möglichkeiten eines BMBF-geförderten Projekts zur Weiterbildungsstatistik (2000-2003) erörtert.
Wer bringt die erforderlichen Mittel für Bildung auf? Welche Möglichkeiten einer Refinanzierung und/oder Überwälzung von Ausgaben, Aufwendungen oder Kosten gibt es? Reinhold Weiß, Mitarbeiter des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, legt in seinem Beitrag zum DIE-Forum „Finanzierung lebenslangen Lernens” (29./30. No-vember 1999 in Frankfurt) dazu 20 Thesen vor. Er gliedert sie nach den Schwerpunkten „Refinanzierung und Kostenüberwälzung“, „Überwälzung betrieblicher Kosten“, „Berufsbildung a…
The following report focuses on the issue of recording the impact of learning in adult and continuing education. It depicts the complexity of empirical-analytical impact and sensitizes for a differentiated access of adult educational research, based on the demand for evidence-based practice and education policy, which increases the pressure to conduct research on valid data on the impact of educational activities. This is substantiated, inter alia, due to the complex topic and the particulariti…
Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
Education and occupation The categories of occupation and education were considered to constitute a contradiction in classic educational theory. A paradigm change is taking place through current societal modernisation processes: occupation and education are especially characterised by mutual interaction. This issue of the REPORT examines the tension-fraught relationship between occupation and education in articles offering theoretical and empirical insight, focusing on four focal points: the …
Scientific adult learning discussions refer to the concept of “region” mainly in policy contexts. Against this background, the author develops an approach to investigate regions from an organizational point of view. In a qualitative interview study using grounded theory within the framework of action-centered geography, he shows that adult education organizations and professionals construct regions in pedagogical practice. These practices need to be analyzed as a complex interplay between marke…
As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…
Ein einheitliches Recht des lebenslangen Lernens gibt es nicht. Aber eine Vielzahl von bildungsbereichspezifischen Rechts- und Verwaltungsvorschriften, von denen einige die Weiterbildung betreffen. Das Heft trägt die neueren Entwicklungen auf Landes-, Bundes- und europäischer Ebene zusammen und bettet die Erkenntnisse zum Recht ein in eine Diskussion um öffentliche und private Pflichten für das lebenslange Lernen.
