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Private individuals in Germany bear in some cases high costs individually and spend leisure time to a considerable extent for their professional further qualification. To what extent does the investment of money and time pay for course participants in further education? The author outlines how course participants estimate to which degree they benefit from their professional further education and how they judge the relationship of cost and effect. A high degree of satisfaction is found. However…
Mit ihrer Reform zum »Kontinuierlichen Lernen« hat die finnische Regierung Instrumente zur weitreichenden Anerkennung non-formal erworbener Kompetenzen geschaffen. Der Autor schildert die Entwicklungen zum kompetenzbasierten Lernen in der finnischen Erwachsenenbildung und gibt einen Einblick in Voraussetzungen und Vorteile dieser Anerkennungspraxis.
In the present contribution the final report of the Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning is compared to a firework: it has provoked a short-term enthusiasm and attention. What is there to do in order not to let the ideas deflagrate but conserve chances for their implementation? The author asks the actors of further education to help oneself offensively with the arguments of the report (“public interest“, “more investments necessary“, “increase sovereignty demand“) and to advertise t…
The reorientation of vocational further education through the Hartz laws, with their introduction of education vouchers, the drastic cutting of expenses for vocational education and complementing orders issued by the Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (federal head institution of employment exchanges) add to an increase in unemployment: institutions in Further Education must reduce their numbers of courses, close down branch offices, and dismiss employees; holders of education vouchers remain without fur…
The author prefers the term of »sustainable learning« compared with »education for sustainable development«, because she sees the numerous non-institutionalised learning processes being included. The UN decade is a challenge for a variety of learning places, protagonists and target groups. She confronts the chances for the decade with several social, above all individual barriers, which complicate the learning of sustainability. Besides the value attitudes and emotions above all here the factor…
Within the federal programme »On-Site Learning«, the General Bureau of Education in Aachen is responsible for the municipal coordination of educational counselling in ten communities. The presented three-pillar model includes the qualification of educational counsellors, training for educational guides for and the compass training guidance as an associated information medium. The concept aims at improving the transparency of publicly accessible educational counselling as well as approaching edu…
Hedonism and body cult have to be considered as social phenomena. They are an expression of the individualisaton of health behaviour and of the search for wellness. Wellness is connected with sensuality and enjoyment in many people’s minds. Health consciousness is influenced by individual experience. Health learning can incorporate wellness and the experiential dimension in a productive way.
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
Welche Kompetenzen sind in der Praxis der politischen Bildung relevant? Dies diskutieren die Autorin und der Autor mit Blick auf die Lernenden und die Lehrenden und analysieren dabei aktuelle gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen, die die Kompetenzfrage beeinflussen.
Education in the Economic Culture. An Analysis of Approaches in Educational Policy of the Council of Europe and the EU Considering the Discussion of Culture and Economic Orientation The European Union and the Council of Europe play an important role for educational policy in Europe. Education is meant to promote European identity as well as the European Economic Area. This text explores the priorities of the Council of Europe’s and the European Union’s educational concepts in the timeframe …
