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Die berufliche Integration ist ein wichtiges Ziel für geflüchtete Menschen. Biografieorientierte Kompetenzfeststellungsverfahren, die mit Beratungsangeboten gekoppelt sind, bieten sich für die Unterstützung an. Die Autorinnen reflektieren Erfahrungen aus drei Modellprojekten, die sie wissenschaftlich begleitet haben.
The article presents the results of the author’s study on the views of pedagogy students on politics and education. The research has been undertaken subsequently to the 2015 parliamentary elections won by the party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc” (“Law and Justice”, PiS). During the election campaign, this party’s program offered radical changes, also in the Polish educational system. The aim of the study was the recognition of the level of interest in politics, the approach to democracy and education…
This article investigates the internationally-comparative question how basic education policy is understood at the national level of policy formulation (policy), and how this basic education policy is – taking into account the institutional rules and responsibilities of the multi-level-system (polity) – implemented by a constellation of actors into national education policy (politics). On the basis of empirical data from the project “EU-Alpha”, the interplay of policy, polity and politics in ba…
Learning Centres als spezifische Organisationsformen haben das Potenzial, integrative Angebote zur Unterstützung lebenslangen Lernens bereitzustellen. Bei einem Blick auf die Entwicklungen in Europa wird eine Vielfalt von Konzepten und Initiativen sichtbar. Ziel des Bandes ist es, eine erste Übersicht über die verschiedenen europäischen Modelle zu liefern, ihre Einbindung im jeweiligen nationalen Bildungskontext aufzuzeigen und Perspektiven für eine veränderte Lernkultur zu entwickeln. Hierzu…
Welche Kompetenzen benötigen Bürgerinnen und Bürger, wenn es um den Umgang mit digitalen Medien geht? Der Autor zeichnet Unterscheidungen von Medienkompetenz und Medienbildung nach und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass neben Kompetenzen in der Anwendung kritisch-reflexive Elemente im Umgang mit digitalen Medien vermittelt werden sollten.
Diversity management is a popular management approach. It promises to allow diversity in organisations and thus to appreciate people for what they are. It undertakes to recognise different points of view, ideas, abilities and potentials; not to standardise cultural variety but to reinforce it. For adult education, this concept seems highly promising. After all, one claim of educational management is to promote personality development and personal progress in a business context. However, critica…
The article systematizes perspectives for the development of supply structures for people with a migrant background, especially for refugees. For this purpose, the article defines an integration concept that focuses various educationally relevant levels and dimensions, which are entangled with a perspective of the intercultural and transcultural adult and further education. Based on the results from various program analyzes studies and ongoing research projects, it furthermore reflects, how the…
Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
