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Familienbildung ist mit ihrer »doppelten Verankerung« in Sozialer Arbeit und Erwachsenenbildung in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Fürsorge und emanzipatorischer Bildung angesiedelt. Das Heft beleuchtet dieses Spannungsfeld und betrachtet die Bedingungen und die verschiedenen Herausforderungen für die Familienbildung aus erwachsenenpädagogischer Perspektive.
The article deals with the importance of decision-making processes referring to professional practices in career counseling and continuing counseling. Based on an empirical analysis of specific details the process of counseling is being illustrated. Parts of this analysis are the counseling interviews that were selected and provided by the consultant him- or herself. Therefore the counseling interviews represent the common practice of the counseling process. The analysis was conducted as an ana…
Why have we lately seen a renaissance of the concept of „region“ in the social sciences? The author explores changing perspectives on this concept against a background of technical and social development. While the electronic media allow networking as a form of cooperation that is motivated by functional aspects and exceeds regional boundaries, cooperation within the physical boundaries of a region is facilitated by ease of personal contacts, shared facilities and common institutions. Both tend…
Ist die Beschäftigung mit dem Begriff Haltung ein Zeichen für eine neue Bildungs-Debatte? Zumindest, so der Autor, wird der Blick nach der Kompetenzwende damit auch wieder auf Selbstwirksamkeit und Innensteuerung gerichtet. In pädagogischen Settings geht es dann um die Entwicklung von Haltung als orientierender Kraft – bei den Lernenden wie den Lehrenden.
Bei der Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltung geht es auch um den Umgang mit Daten, die in den Verwaltungen produziert werden. Die Autoren zeigen auf Grundlage einer Studie die Konsequenzen einer weitgehenden Nutzung von Verwaltungsdaten auf und benennen sowohl Lerndesiderate als auch sich daraus ergebende Chancen für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung.
In the search for strategies to combat skills shortages, employees with simple tasks have often not been focused on. However, making up about 20?% of all employees, this group of workers represents an important qualification potential. It is the purpose of our paper to investigate the question whether expected or existing difficulties in filling vacancies for skilled personnel increase the training activities of firms towards employees in low-skilled jobs. Our analyses show that expected skills…
Since the formation of regional entities in the modern age, the concept of „region“ has been interpreted in different ways. While in the after-war years attempts at strengthening structurally weak regions by attracting industry from without (the „exogenous“ strategy) were successful, nowadays the „endogenous“ strategy is becoming relevant, which builds on efforts from within the region. The author maintains that the success of „learning“ regions will depend on the efficiency of the regions’ edu…
German universities have been compelled to live on a tight budget for years. Therefore, university financing is on the one hand concerned with more efficiency, on the other hand with the opening up new sources of income. Possible instruments for more efficiency are global budgets and the dividing-up of budgets according to indicators. New sources of income might be funded research and the provision of further education. But German universities are still a long way from being "entrepreneurial un…
