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The staff in adult and continuing education is the most important factor for a high quality and demand-oriented development of training courses and their effective implementation. However, there existed only insufficient data and information on these persons. For the first time, the wb-personalmonitor now provides data on demographics, employment situation, living conditions, job profiles, qualifications as well as job related attitudes for the staff in adult and continuing education. Thus, the…
Emotions in Adults’ Learning Neurophysiological research has shown the relevance of emotions in learning processes. Nevertheless, the exploration of learning processes and the development of competencies is rather characterised by a cognitive perspective. On the basis of systemic-constructivist concepts the authors show that sustainable learning only works when internal experiences are supplemented with external experiences. By that way the levels of emotional and cognitive learning can be c…
Im Zusammenhang mit lebensbegleitendem Lernen geraten kooperative Bildungsarrangements, d.h. Weiterbildungsangebote, -projekte, -maßnahmen und -initiativen, die in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Organisationen entstehen, in den Blick. Solche Arrangements werden in Deutschland von bildungspolitischer Seite gefördert. Erwartet werden Problemlösungen in pädagogischer, wirtschaftlicher und organisatorischer Hinsicht. Es ist Aufgabe der erwachsenenpädagogischen Forschung, die Rahmenbedingungen genauer z…
Die Bedeutung von Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung in nationalen wie internationalen Bildungsdebatten ist unbestritten. Die in Deutschland angelaufenen Projekte werden im Jahr 2009 erste Arbeitsergebnisse vorstellen können. Die Beiträge dieses Heftes werden vornehmlich einen Beitrag zur Theorieentwicklung leisten und damit Grundlagen für die weitere Forschung auf diesem Gebiet schaffen.
Looking ahead – 30-year REPORT The 30th anniversary issue of the REPORT reviews ideas, research findings and articles from a present-day perspective and extrapolates these into the future. To this end, texts from the two founding editors, Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg, have subsumed articles under six different topical rubrics and reread these from a present-day perspective from thirty years of REPORT. The articles are prefaced and concluded by two interviews respectively providing a ret…
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The European survey of continuing vocational training in enterprises, CVTS, is a unique source of internationally comparable data. This report provides the first detailed comparative analyses of data from the third European survey of continuing vocational training in enterprises. It also includes a comprehensive evaluation of data quality from the European perspective to improve the survey. This publication is the result of a collective effort, with contributions from Cedefop colleagues Katja N…
