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Continuing vocational training and gender justice Albeit at first sight, quantitative data on continuing vocational training participation documents a gradual balancing in the participation quota of women and men, a glance behind the participation figures reveals, however, a more complex picture. Participation in continuing vocational training are determined by factors such as first job, occupation and status as well as private life interrelations which effect women and men differently. This…
Konzepte des selbstgesteuerten Lernens erscheinen auf den ersten Blick als Ausfluss einer spezifischen Rezeption des Konstruktivismus durch die Erwachsenenbildung. Im Gegensatz dazu wird die These vertreten, dass diese innerwissenschaftliche Verarbeitung des Konstruktivismus und die erwachsenenpädagogische Propagierung des selbstgesteuerten Lernens sich als Reflexe auf Modernisierungsimperative verstehen lassen. Mit Konzepten des selbstgesteuerten Lernens geht eine Entprofessionalisierungsstrat…
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.
Traditionally, adult foreign language learning is an issue of foreign and second language acquisition research. This book advocates increased adult educational research in this particular field of practice, which is presented in a detailed overview of theories and concepts, research, statistics, teaching-learning approaches and recommendations. Case studies demonstrate how qualitative methods of programme analysis, video interaction research and biography analysis are used as approaches to adul…
Parent and child programmes are the most frequently offered programmes in family education. The intergenerational experiment of education and lifelong learning has proven its worth in adult and family education and may be regarded as a counter weight to the »expertisation« during the early childhood.
The author pursues the issue whether gender equity has been achieved in continuing educational participation. According to Friebel, this question can only be answered if the life and work contexts are considered as a biographic regulative of the participation in continuing education. The underlying empirical data is based on the longitudinal study »Hamburger Biografie- und Lebenslaufpanel« (HBLP), in which findings about the correlation of gender, parenthood and participation in continuing educ…
The article provides an overview of the constellation of stakeholders in health education. It focuses on the publicly funded section and its current challenges such as the participants' age pattern, as well as the range of services and the relating quality standards.
