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"Introduction into adult education“ Constitution of object and theory perspectives in the medium of a specific literature genre The contribution analyses in an observation of second order the specific method, with which the newly "introduction into adult education“ is constituted its object and thereby brings to bear a special perspectivity. The four analysed introductions make a topic of adult education as a double search move, as professional learning intercede, of learning as an institut…
Based on considerations of the signaling theory and the reputation approach this study examines whether a relationship between employer-provided continuing vocational training and the success of establishments to recruit external qualified staff, can be demonstrated. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of establishments in Germany carried out in 2011. The results of a multivariate analysis show that establishments with continuing vocational training are more successful in recruiting qua…
In Deutschland leben Schätzungen zufolge mehrere Millionen Erwachsene, deren Lese-, Schreib- und Rechenfähigkeit so gering ist, dass sie von der Mehrzahl gesellschaftlicher Aktivitäten und vom Arbeitsmarkt ausgeschlossen sind. Der Weiterbildungssektor hält entsprechende Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsangebote vor. Den Umfang dieser Angebote zu ermitteln – und wie sie die Betroffenen erreichen – ist Aufgabe des Projekts „Monitor Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung“. Im Rahmen der in 2009 durc…
The development of interest in adult education This article presents results of a project funded by the DFG on the development of interest in continuing and further education. We connect our work to most recent research on biographical genesis of interest and focus occuring during an individual’s participation in adult education. As theoretical approach we refer to the Munich theory of interest and the pragmatist approach. We empirically investigate the opportunities and limitations of a qua…
Representative surveys on participation in continuing education are the basis for analyses of lifelong learning as well as a description of the continuing education sector within the educational system. The information which is made available should be sufficiently differentiated in order to be able to distinguish different types of learning activities. One of the most important distinctions is the one between general and continuing vocational education. This article examines how and with what …
Die betriebliche Weiterbildung stellt einen der zentralen Lernorte in einer Wissensgesellschaft dar. Eine der wichtigsten Informationsquellen zum Stand der betrieblichen Weiterbildung – und bildungspolitisch von zunehmender Bedeutung – ist die Erhebung CVTS (Continuing Vocational Training Survey). In diesem Band liefern renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren Hintergrundinformationen zu der Erhebung, präsentieren ihre Analysen und geben Anregungen für Politik, Wissenschaft und Praxis. Die Studien um…
Counselling: Changes for a Sustainable Development If counselling should survive as a generally accepted human service at the beginning of the 21st century, a fundamental shift in paradigms and the therewith connected development of sustainable offers for counselling becomes necessary. Permanent co-evolution of needs from clients, economy and society calls for specific skills and knowledge for analysis and coping with multiple subjective realities, ecological contexts, non-linear causalities…
Petra Grell und Peter Faulstich werfen ein Schlaglicht auf das Phänomen „Lernwiderstand“. Der Beschreibung von Erscheinungsformen von Lernwiderständen folgen grundsätzliche Überlegungen zu Lerntheorien und die Unterscheidung von expansivem und defensivem Lernen. Die zentralen Perspektiven zur Analyse von Lernwiderständen liegen in den Fragen nach den Gründen für das Lernen, nach Hemmnissen (milieuspezifisch) und Schranken (Institutionen). Diese Fragen bilden gleichzeitig eine Systematik zur the…
