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Analytical competency in classroom situations can be seen as a crucial aspect of teachers' professional competency. While case-based learning is considered to have great potential for teacher education, particularly with respect to the promotion of teachers' analytical skills, there have been very few attempts to investigate the effects of corresponding instructional support. The present empirical study investigated the effects of instructional support in the form of multiple perspectives (i.e.…
Die Herausforderungen für die Demokratie nehmen zu und wandeln sich. Politisch Bildende müssen sich stetig weiter qualifizieren, um unter diesen Bedingungen dauerhaft wirksame Arbeit leisten zu können. Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung zu Wirkungen von Fortbildungsangeboten für Praktiker*innen der politischen Bildung im Bundesprogramm »Demokratie leben!« dar. Die Autor*innen analysieren »Resonanzen« bei den Praktiker*innen und darüber hinaus und nennen wesentliche Einflussfak…
The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
Intercultural education accepts the “otherness“ in multicultural and multireligious societies. It struggles against discrimination and seeks equality. Migrants and native people are both target groups of intercultural education. The article discusses educational questions in the German context with regard to different nationality, culture, religion and mother tongue. “Intracultural” education is necessary to strengthen personal and social identity; intercultural education can initiate dialogue …
In-company further education causes direct and indirect costs that can be divided up between employers and employees in different ways. The article provides an overview of a number of financing models of in-company further education, presenting empirical results of various surveys conducted in enterprises. Not only range of and participation in further education is dealt with, but also the height and composition of further education costs, the timing of qualifying measures, employees’ paying a …
R. Jermann presents eduQua, a label that certifies certain basic standards for further education institutions in Switzerland. eduQua aims at securing and furthering the quality of further education institutions by way of the setting of basic standards, at identifying a basis for administrative decisions (certified institutions may apply for grants), and at improving transparence in the education market.
Gerade im Wettkampfsport mit seiner inhärenten Leistungsbezogenheit scheint Inklusion schwierig. Doch das »Special Olympics Unified Sports®«-Konzept bringt Sportler*innen mit und ohne Behinderung im wettkampforientierten Sport zusammen; Ziel ist ein »wirkungsvoller Einstieg« in ein »inklusives Klima«. Gelingt dieser Einstieg? Dieser Frage geht die Autorin auf Basis einer Studie nach.
Erwachsene konnten notwendige Lese-, Schreib- und Rechenkompetenzen in der frühen Neuzeit in den größeren Handelsstädten an städtischen Privatschulen erwerben. In der nachfolgenden Quelle wird über ein Werbeschild einer solchen Privatschule, gemalt von Hans und Ambrosius Holbein, berichtet.
Die nachfolgende Zeitungsmeldung zeigt, wie sich die neu gegründeten Arbeiterbildungsvereine der Öffentlichkeit präsentierten.
