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Mit der Befragung des Personals der öffentlichen Weiterbildung in Niedersachsen wurden Erkenntnisse über die drei erwachsenenpädagogischen Funktionsprofile Einrichtungsleitung, hauptamtliche pädagogische Mitarbeitende und Kursleitung im Hinblick auf deren sozioökonomische Merkmale, Aufgaben- und Tätigkeitsfelder, Weiterbildungsverhalten und Einstellung zu einer trägerunabhängigen Kompetenzzertifizierung gewonnen. Die Aufgabenprofile dieser drei Funktionsprofile verdeutlichen, dass neben pädagog…
Der Wandel der Weiterbildung geht nicht spurlos an den Einrichtungen vorbei. Sicher geglaubte Finanzmittel werden gestrichen und erfordern eine Neupositionierung am Markt. Die einen suchen ihr Heil in einer Rechtsformänderung, andere fusionieren. Schließlich kann auch die Übernahme einer Führungsrolle in einem Netzwerk strukturelle Änderungen auf organistationaler Ebene bewirken. Mit diesem Buch macht das DIE Organisationsveränderungen anhand von vier Fallbeschreibungen plastisch, arbeitet dos …
This article presents the findings of a research project on structure and change in continuing education in Bremen, set out as a longitudinal analysis of selected years between 1979 and 2006. At the level of the continuing education system as a whole, the author identifies a certain structural stability evident from the fact that despite a growth in the number of market-oriented providers from 1996 to 2006, their competition – providers under public law – retained its structural influence on th…
This article presents results of a field study exploring why illiterates start relearning reading and writing at a later age. The project SYLBE focused on reasons and obstacles of participants in basic education classes. The study provides a typology of motivations for learning and thus supports the professional acting of teaching staff in basic education.
The social milieus and the slowed down expansion of education Going out from the fact that the expansion of education in the last decades has not enabled an equality of educational opportunity, the contribution explores the development of the social mileus and their specific educational behaviour on the basis of the theory approach of Bourdieu.
Economic standard education is increasingly criticised for its unworldliness, imbalance and rashness. The article investigates possible effects and the social meaning of this condition: Does is support sightless market credibility, which is visible in the public opinion during the past decades? Which criteria play a role? The article pursues these issues by working out essential connections between strategies for influencing the public opinion from a historic perspective on the one hand, and sc…
Education for elderly people has continuously increased in significance against the background of demographic developments. Primarily the group of the “young old“ has been in the centre of scientific exploration and practical educational work. For a long time the theme old age has been shielded. The author shows development lines and blind spots of old age research and old age education and pleads for a re-orientation of the educational approach in the context of relatives care. Thereby she foc…
Further education is regarded as an investment in the future, in which large parts of the population of Germany participate. However not all groups benefit from this investment in equal measure. The contribution particularly focuses on the further education situation of migrants. A subsequent subscription of the development of pedagogical concepts of deficit- and adaption orientated basic approaches from the early 1970s up to the current stronger resource- and integration orientated offers. The…
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 …
Die Kooperation von (Weiter-)Bildungseinrichtungen gilt als zentrale Strategie, um den Herausforderung in Stadt und Land zu begegnen. Auf diese Weise können Kompetenzen und Ressourcen gebündelt werden, um komplexe Aufgaben zu bewältigen, mit denen die einzelnen Einrichtungen überfordert wären. Auch Wirtschaft und Politik haben längst erkannt, dass gut ausgebildete Menschen bzw. gute Weiterbildungsoptionen wichtige Standortfaktoren sind – und beziehen diese in Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung mit …
