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The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
Mit fünf Kurzbeiträgen zu Projekten im Themenbereich "Lernen in Weiterbildungseinrichtungen" stellt sich der Projektverbund OKRA vor. OKRA steht für "Professionalisierung begleitender Lernberatung in unterschiedlichen Handlungskontexten". Die vorgestellten Gestaltungsprojekte kommen aus den Bereichen Altenhilfe, Schulen des Gesundheitswesens, aus der Beratungspraxis für kleine Wirtschaftsunternehmen und der Lernberatung für Migrant/inn/en.
Ein Bericht über eine neue, interdisziplinäre Veranstaltungsform zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, die im März 2005 stattfand.
Large parts of adult education are not being reached through relevant laws at all anymore. Thus a factual deregulation is the consequence. This loss of scope faces a growing provision profundity of those laws thar are tangent to the adult education area and that have been revised lately. The author draws attention to this ambivalent context by means of the most important legal basis of adult education: the adult education laws of the German states and the social statute book III (SGB III).
Complaints about the governmental withdrawal from public responsibility for adult education are most common nowadays. The "retrospects" shows how the perception of public responsibility during the last three decades of the 20th century has changed in the mirror of different political guidelines and an altering public interest in adult education.
