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A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
South-east European countries are receiving support from “western” institutions in developing their education system structures. One professional involved in development cooperation in the field of adult education is dvv international, the German Adult Education Association’s institute for international cooperation. By evaluating work in Romania, Serbia and Kosovo, this article reflects on strategic decisions resulting from this work. It demonstrates that it is correct to take account of differ…
Case-based Learning as a Means of Professionalization of Teaching Staff In adult and teacher education, case-based learning seems a promising way to foster analytical competencies which play a crucial role when identifying and solving practical problems in teaching situations. Thus, the article offers an insight into established concepts of case-based learning within different contexts for the professionalization (of teachers). Therefore, two discourses will be related to one another: one o…
Organization and Participants – Development of the instrument [OrTe] to evaluate expectations regarding teaching, learning, and organization in further education Most of the quality management procedures in continuing education require participant surveys. The perusal of 72 questionnaires in the field of continuing education practice showed that they are mostly related to the participants’ satisfaction with their teachers and the organisation of the course. When those questionnaires’ results…
Nowadays, employees are part of a rather dynamic working environment, which is significantly marked by increasing digitalisation. As a result, qualification and competence requirements as well as job contents are changing. Findings by the qualification panel of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) indicate that a company's higher digitalisation level requires higher skill profiles. More digitalised companies also have a larger number continuing education measures, …
The argument in this article is based on a concept that defines values as ‘big principles’. Although the work of education institutions is based on values in that sense, it cannot guarantee those values itself. That is why it is important to not only raise an awareness of values in internal debates among adult educators but also to speak about them explicitly in the classroom. The author believes that pursuing these two strategies makes more sense than formulating a specific ‘ethics of continui…
Looking at persons and at those active in organisations has forever been in the focus of psychological research on organisations. Monika Kil draws attention to the fact that pedagogical psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology can also contribute towards a structuring of further education institutions that is conducive to learning. Developing a »learning culture « is one aspect of this. A review of further developments and findings opens up new dimensions for a discourse on organi…
Träger beruflicher Bildung, so der Autor, müssen sich zu Bildungsdienstleistern entwickeln. Mit Hilfe agiler Führung können sie sich als resiliente Organisationen aufstellen, um im gesamtgesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozess erfolgreich im freien Bildungsmarkt zu bestehen.
Wie begründen Bildungseinrichtungen, dass sie Angebote zur digitalen Grundbildung unterbreiten? Dieser Frage sind die Autorin und der Autor in Interviews mit lehrendem und leitendem Personal der allgemeinen und konfessionellen Erwachsenenbildung nachgegangen. Sie zeigen, dass die Begründung entlang dreier Säulen der Legitimität erfolgt.
Die im Aufbau befindliche Nationale Bildungsplattform ist eine Online-Vernetzungsinfrastruktur, die Lehr- und Lernformate anbieterübergreifend auffindbar und nutzbar machen soll. Was erwarten Lehrende von dieser Plattform? Auf Basis der Ergebnisse einer Online-Umfrage berichten der Autor und die Autorin über Chancen und Herausforderungen aus Perspektive der potenziellen zukünftigen Nutzenden.
