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We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
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We offer research, transfer and infrastructure for lifelong learning.
Die Corona-Pandemie hat zu einem Digitalisierungsschub in der Weiterbildung geführt. Doch werden die damit verbundenen Veränderungen nachhaltig sein? Aufbauend auf einer Systematisierung von Bildungsformaten identifizieren der Autor und die Autorin fünf Trends für Weiterbildung nach der Corona-Pandemie.
Krise & Chance Krisen sind etwas, womit moderne Gesellschaften leben müssen, so Heinz-Elmar Tenorth im »Stichwort«. Die aktuelle Corona-Krise wirkt sich unterschiedlich auf die verschiedenen Bildungsbereiche aus – was auch mit deren jeweiliger Handlungslogik zu tun hat (Ulrich Heine¬mann). In der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung sind neben den (wirtschaftlichen) Folgen für die Einrichtungen (Kohl & Denzl und Tafelbild) und die Lehrenden (Pia Probst) vor allem Fragen der Digitalisierung virulent…
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.
This overview in table form of the adult education centres survey for 2021 presents key findings pertaining to institutional characteristics, personnel, funding and events.
Continuing education at schools of higher learning – data on developments in the context of the Bologna process Wide-ranging, different and at the same time diverging factors are having an impact on schools of higher learning, causing uncertainty among staff as well as institutional insecurity. This also goes for scholarly continuing education. In general it would appear that there is a trend towards commercialisation of universities linked with a growing autonomy of sub-units, faculties and…
Management of transition in further education of Bochum Consultancy, qualification and education at the transition between school and vocational training The contribution describes, from the perspective of a scientific practical guidance, how a communal further education information centre (in the Ruhr area of Bochum) engages in the transition between school and vocational training in terms of offering help and orientation to school children concerning their choosing of a profession. In a qu…
PISA and adult education – temptations and open questions “The PISA results are an invitation for the debate and for developing the research rather than conclusive judgeements on the miracle recipe to improve the educational performance” (Heller 2003, p. 30). Earmarking for the discussion of policies of adult education after PISA is that the results are taken to express most different positions in little differentiated way. To this also the typical reception problems contribute, such as t…
Starting out with deliberations on the relationship between the course of life and the constructed biography of an individual, this article intends to elucidate the contexts of learning as they are treated in various (inter-)national studies, by focusing on the individual’s course of life. To clarify which methodological design is most appropriate to study processes of (lifelong) learning and education, it then seems necessary to highlight a particular methodological approach. This leads, ultim…
