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Vor welchen Herausforderungen steht politische Bildung heute? Wie kann sie Menschen dabei unterstützen, vom politischen Objekt zum handelnden Subjekt zu werden und an gesellschaftspolitischen Debatten teilzuhaben? Diesen Fragen ging Thomas Krüger, Präsident der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, in seiner Keynote im Rahmen des DIE-Forums Weiterbildung »Einmischen, positionieren, verständigen. Erwachsenenbildung und Öffentlichkeit« am 12. Dezember 2017 in Siegburg nach.
Der Band vermittelt theoretische und praktische Grundlagen zur Kompetenzfeststellung und -entwicklung, zum Beratungsverständnis und zu Perspektiven von Beratung und Beratungsformen, speziell für die Arbeit mit dem ProfilPASS. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Darstellung des systemischen Beratungsansatzes. Zusätzliche Kapitel gehen auf die spezifischen Anforderungen ein, die sich bei der Beratung von Jugendlichen und MigrantInnen ergeben und beinhalten Fallbeispiele und Methoden. Die Mischung aus …
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…
This article addresses learning, educational and activity-related prospects upon entering into retirement age and the search for meaning in one's career associated with this. The topic is explored at various levels: first of all autobiographically taking the example of a new, self-employed orientation. At the second level, the case example can be interpreted as part of a societal trend towards activities crossing the age border. Finally prospects for the topic in the context of adult education …
»Education for sustainable development (ESD)« first became a term of educational politics in 1998 by use in papers of the Bund-Laender Commission. While sustainability as a principle of development politics has already been used since the Bund-Laender Commission in 1987, the connection with the educational term first hesitantly was made with the Agenda 21 of Rio 1992. In Germany above all the environmental educators adopted the term ESD, but not without political pressure. With diverse protago…
