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During the last two decades, widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evol…
Ist die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe behinderter Menschen durch Bildung schon verwirklicht, und wenn ja, wie weit? Dies ist eine Hauptfragestellung der Ausgabe 4/2003, das anlässlich des „Europäischen Jahres der Menschen mit Behinderungen“ erschienen ist. Im Gespräch mit Dr. Peter Radtke – Schauspieler, Geschäftsführer der „AG Behinderung und Medien e.V.“, ehem. VHS-Fachgebietsleiter und selber durch die Glasknochenkrankheit behindert – geht es u.a. um die Zielgruppe „Behinderte“ in der Erwachsen…
Vocational continuing education is becoming more significant in modern employment biographies. A growing range of work-based study programmes and the recent opening tendency for persons holding vocational qualifications attracts attention to universities as providers of continuing education. Still, academic formats play a comparatively small role in the market of continuing education. The report explores the reasons for the low acceptance of academic continuing education. For this purpose, 72 p…
Transnationalisation processes of enterprises lead to extended needs of qualification and knowledge. There are no corresponding concepts and learning culture designs. Knowledge as a category and as a realistic interpretation of demands is not well enough developed as part of these arrangements. Entrepreneurial interests hide learning needs, this becomes obvious in findings of working cooperation analysis in contexts of cultural diversity. This article explains one part of an analytical access t…
The contribution introduces experience orientated learning places such as museums, science centers, zoos, theme parks, but also Brandlands and Urban Entertainment Centers. These learning places complement formal learning and offer room for self-controlled and strong emotionally established learning. Requirements for such hybrid basic approaches are formulated by education and entertainment. These assessments rest upon the results of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education…
Qualität / Qualitäten: Die Qualitätsfrage umfasst alle Bereiche der Weiterbildung. Lehr-/Lernprozesse, ihre Organisation und Rahmenbedingungen stehen in ihrer Gesamtheit auf dem Qualitätsprüfstand. Das Heft beleuchtet wesentliche Entwicklungslinien: Vergleichbarkeit von Qualitätsmodellen (Schiersmann); Personalentwicklung nach innen (Mathes) und externe Beratung (Ehses/Zech); bestehende Qualitäts-Labels im Ausland (Jermann); bundespolitische Maßnahmen für mehr Qualität durch das BMBF (Pahl). …
In recent years, “popular education” has become a highly relevant topic in the international debate. At the same time, research efforts on this subject matter have been increasing. The concept of “popular education” is understood as different from or marginalized by dominant discourses and institutions. This issue of REPORT will raise awareness for both the historical origins and the current discussions of popular education in adult education. The articles collected will evaluate if such concep…
Diese Ausgabe der Zeitschrift REPORT widmet sich der institutionellen Seite der Weiterbildung und thematisiert Management, Entwicklung und Veränderung von Organisationen. Das Heft greift damit einen Aspekt auf, der noch immer in der Weiterbildungsforschung vernachlässigt ist. Eine im Zuge der Vorbereitung dieses Heftes durchgeführte gezielte Recherche nach aktuellen empirischen Projekten und neueren empirisch fundierten Publikationen ergab zumindest unter quantitativen Gesichtspunkten recht d…
This article presents the results of a recent online survey of graduates of the Austrian Academy of Continuing Education. Methodically, the survey’s results on benefit items are interpreted and answers to open questions are analyzed by qualitative content analyses. Empirical findings are subject to an interpretation using concepts of professionalization and the political agenda of validation of informal and non-formal learning. An important finding is, that WBA enhances individual professionali…
