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Seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine stehen die Integrationskursträger und ihre Lehrkräfte vor der Herkulesaufgabe, einer sechsstelligen Zahl von Geflüchteten quasi aus dem Stand adäquate Sprach- und Orientierungskurse anzubieten. Für die Steuerung der bundesweit durchgeführten Integrationskurse ist das Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) verantwortlich, eine Bundesoberbehörde im Geschäftsbereich des Innenministeriums. Für weiter bilden standen seitens des BAMF Uta Saumweber-…
Sowohl Beschäftigungslosigkeit als auch Erwerbsarbeit selbst können Auslöser von persönlichen Krisen sein. Die Autoren diskutieren, welche Gründe es dafür gibt und inwiefern Weiterbildung helfen kann, solche Krisen zu bearbeiten.
Gute Weiterbildung fängt bei der Gestaltung von Lernangeboten an. Denn die pädagogische Qualität der Angebote ist aus Sicht der erwachsenen Lernenden der zentrale Qualitätsausweis eines Anbieters. Allerdings waren bisherige Ansätze, die Qualität der Weiterbildung zu erhöhen, fast ausschließlich auf die Ebene der Organisation beschränkt. Auch existiert in der Erwachsenenbildung derzeit kein übergreifendes Konzept für die Qualifizierung sowie die Aus- und Fortbildung von Lehrkräften. Um diese Lüc…
Most learning activities in continuing education are assigned to enterprise-provided continuing vocational training. There is wide-spread interest in this field and its development. But many researchers point out that the theoretical and conceptual foundations for researching and shaping this field are not adequately unfolded. The variety of enterprise-provided continuing vocational training requires approaches, which allow for differentiation between diverse realities and interests of actors. …
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Positive learning experiences in childhood, adolescence, as well as during employment have a favourable effect on learning in old age. From a gerontological perspective, the significance of school education and of professional qualifications attained later in life for educational behaviour in the post-employment phase can be explained with the continuity theory. To evaluate the relevance of one’s educational biography, a representative survey was conducted. 500 individuals at the age from 50 to…
An idyll of inclusion and exclusion? The article brings into question the ongoing debate about inclusion/exclusion. For this purpose it draws attention to the circularity of the used arguments being composed of democracy – social inclusion – education. Hence, the paper is aimed at discussing the interdependence of these components, focussing in particular on the ambivalent position of adult/further education in this dynamic. The reference to the work of Jacques Rancière, an influential Frenc…
