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Weiterbildung ist für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund essentiell. Deshalb existiert im Bereich der Weiterbildung eine Vielzahl an Indikatoren, welche die Leistungen der Migrant/inn/en sichtbar machen sollen. Jedoch, so moniert der Autor, gleicht diese Form des Monitorings eher einer Einbahnstraße, denn nicht nur Migrant/inn/en, sondern die gesamte Gesellschaft muss an der Integration mitwirken. Bislang existieren aber keine geeigneten Indikatoren, um diesen notwendigen gesellschaftlichen Bei…
2009 hat Deutschland die UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen ratifiziert und sich dazu verpflichtet, ein inklusives Bildungssystem zu gewährleisten. Für die deutsche Erwachsenenbildung öffnet sich damit ein Handlungsfeld, das meist von der Behindertenhilfe beackert wurde und wird. Zugleich stellt dies die Erwachsenenbildung vor große Herausforderungen: Das Heft beschäftigt sich auf den Ebenen von System, Organisation und Didaktik mit den Anforderungen des Inklusionsgebo…
Inclusion – An Organisational Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part 1 The report evaluates the option of offering inclusive adult education at adult education centres on a larger scale. The compatibility of the new policy statement in adult education centres and the principle of inclusion are pointed out. Implications of the concept of inclusion are presented, which lead to the conclusion that inclusion can only be implemented with a comprehensive organisational developmen…
Indivisible but Limited. Inclusion in View of Severe and Multiple Disabilities in the Light of the Danish Experiences “Indivisibility“ is given the upmost priority in the discussion about inclusion. Does “indivisible” also imply “unlimited”? The author sees limitations to the right of inclusive adult education. Acknowledging these limitations is a prerequisite for developing successful forms of inclusion. Not attracting a sufficient number of “non-disabled” participants is a limitation of p…
New Perspectives for Planning and Realization of Programmes. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part II The report focuses on the challenges of the inclusive paradigm in programme planning and implementation. Four strategic approaches are presented which facilitate the access to inclusive adult education. (1) Access to existing programmes needs to be generally facilitated for people with disabilities. (2) Cultural education is especially predestined to be in the focus. (3) People with …
Accessibility – A Didactic Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part III Based on the access rights to all public education, the author evaluates the dimensions of accessibility to be considered in planning and implementing inclusive adult educational programmes. Constructional prerequisites are brushed though the main focus is on the techniques of barrier-free communication which are micro-didactically described more critically as a “two sense approach”. The last paragraph re…
Caught between Two Stools. Adult Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities The report analyses connecting factors for the manifestation of an inclusive approach in adult education for people with mental disabilities. It presents existing organisational forms and qualification paths. The core challenge is seen in the development of an inclusive professionalism which combines the expertise and competences existing in both general adult education and help for the disabled. The develop…
The report focuses on empirical data of cultural life from a cultural political perspective. Despite the common experience of growth, a significant increase of cultural life participation cannot be empirically verified with regard to the time budgets applied – at least not of provisions attributed to the narrower definition of culture. There are more visits (especially of large cultural institutions and popular cultural events) but not necessarily more visitors. While the prerequisites for cult…
