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Work-based training is a significant competence development tool for adult educators. The article presents study findings, which were recently developed based on a need and demand perspective. (1) Based on the data base QUA LIDAT , programmes are systematised. (2) The behaviour in continuing education of e.g teachers was surveyed in Niedersachsen.
Corporate case work offers the opportunity to interconnect expertise in both adult and tertiary further education, to commonly solve work related tasks with companies and their employees and to make use of the attained experiences and knowledge through the development of authentic learning material in the form of specific case studies.
This report deals with the significance of the competence model for requirements of daily money management, which was developed in the project "CurVe". It particularly stresses the programme development in the field of financial literacy. In conclusion, the challenges of establishing financial literacy as part of the programme literacy and basic education are outlined.
The internet is increasingly used as a space for learning. Guidance platforms, blogs, and video tutorials are available online. Self-made is not only the subject but also the designed communication process. The authors pursue the issue of possible reactions of the institutionalised adult education to the proceeding development and potential contributions.
From the principle of the regulated occupation to the supremacy of certification: fields of conflict en route to the German qualifications framework (DQR) This article addresses the central difficulties observed in the search for consensus during the current development of a national German qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR). As well as the difficulty in blending in the German national “dual system” of vocational training with the EQF, the main difficulties identi…
Using the crisis-ridden Afghanistan as an example the authors show the importance of adult und continuing education for the positive development of a conflict region. By strengthening the employability of young people in transition from school to university or professional life it helps preventing frustration, aggression and violence – and thus also the emergence of new conflicts.
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.
Was leisten virtuelle Welten für das Lehren/Lernen? Chancen und Grenzen virtueller Bildung und Vorausschau auf mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen für die Erwachsenenbildung sind die Themen dieses Heftes. Der Medienphilosoph Sandbothe erläutert im DIE-Gespräch das zukünftige Verhältnis von virtuellen und realen Welten. Daran schließen sich Fragen an wie: Wozu ist Virtualität gut (Thiedecke)? Was sind die Ergebnisse lernpsychologischer Forschung hinsichtlich virtueller Lernumgebungen (Reimann) und…
The "Yellow Series" contains an didactically structured inventory of relevant topics in the field of adult education. It imparts professional knowledge based on the academic state of research. The volumes are intended for self-studying but are also suited as additional reading for studying and training. The systematic preparation of each topic also supports specialists in assuring the theoretical and methodological base of their actions.
