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Recognition of informal professional competencies Learning in informal and non-formal contexts has not yet gained wide-spread political and social acceptance, documentation and certification. Due to its individual and contextual situation, informal learning can be recognized via learning results only. Professional competence, including both formal and informal learning strategies, will constitute the foundation for a comparative evaluation and certification of such competencies and abilities.
In Germany numerous instruments exist for the documentation of individual activities of lifelong learning in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts. Under the heading of »education passport« alone there are 48 different activities. A systematical and comprehensive approach to the recording, documentation and evaluation of knowledge, skills and competences is lacking up to now. The authors of the DIE project BIBER plumb the chances for a convergence process, which however faces pro…
Welche Genderkompetenzen sind in unterschiedlichen Phasen des Bildungsprozesses pädagogisch relevant? Dieser Fragestellung geht der vorliegende Praxisband nach und richtet die Perspektive auf das lebenslange Lernen: von der frühkindlichen Bildung über den schulischen Bereich, den Übergang von der Schule in Ausbildung und Erwerbsarbeit bis in die Erwachsenenbildung. Dabei werden sowohl formelle als auch informelle Bildungskontexte berücksichtigt. Autor und Autorin skizzieren Fakten, Diskurse und…
Non-formales und informelles Lernen gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Markus Bretschneider analysiert richtungweisende Dokumente der Europäischen Union zu diesem Themenfeld. Er berücksichtigt u. a. das "Weißbuch zur allgemeinen und beruflichen Bildung" (1995), das "Memorandum über Lebenslanges Lernen" (2000) und den "Aktionsplan der Kommission für Qualifikation und Mobilität" (2002) sowie "Gemeinsame europäischen Grundsätze für die Validierung des nicht-formalen und informellen Lernens" (2004). D…
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AiKomPass is a web-based tool to make informal and non-formal competences within the electrical and metal industries visible. It is based on an interview study with potential users and a task inventory, which covers tasks of work areas like process planning, production, maintenance and logistics within production processes. The tool itself was developed within a participative design process. It enables employees and people in search of employment to self-assess their ability to fulfil working t…