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Der Aufbau von einrichtungs- und bildungsbereichsübergreifenden kooperativ vernetzten Bildungsstrukturen ist ein zentraler strategischer Ansatzpunkt zur Förderung des Lebenslangen Lernens. So sind in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren zahlreiche Maßnahmen zur Entwicklung von lokalen Bildungsnetzen, Lern- und Bildungszentren, Weiterbildungsverbünden bis hin zu Lernenden Regionen initiiert und umgesetzt worden. Insbesondere öffentliche Weiterbildungseinrichtungen sind dauerhaft vor die Aufgabe…
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 …
Welche Genderkompetenzen sind in unterschiedlichen Phasen des Bildungsprozesses pädagogisch relevant? Dieser Fragestellung geht der vorliegende Praxisband nach und richtet die Perspektive auf das lebenslange Lernen: von der frühkindlichen Bildung über den schulischen Bereich, den Übergang von der Schule in Ausbildung und Erwerbsarbeit bis in die Erwachsenenbildung. Dabei werden sowohl formelle als auch informelle Bildungskontexte berücksichtigt. Autor und Autorin skizzieren Fakten, Diskurse und…
In the field of economic innovation research, “clusters” (geographical concentrations of related companies) are of great importance due to their extreme productivity and innovation. Seen from the perspective of this type of innovation research, this article presents possible mechanisms which could stand in the path of regional cooperation. Geographical proximity is not enough to spark successful cooperation. The article identifies indifference as a central hurdle on the path to regional coopera…
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
Recognition of informal professional competencies Learning in informal and non-formal contexts has not yet gained wide-spread political and social acceptance, documentation and certification. Due to its individual and contextual situation, informal learning can be recognized via learning results only. Professional competence, including both formal and informal learning strategies, will constitute the foundation for a comparative evaluation and certification of such competencies and abilities.
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…
Effects of continuing education tests Continuing education tests aim at improving transparency of the quality of programmes on offer and initiating processes to improve quality at providers of continuing education. But what has the impact of continuing education tests been to date? The authors present selected results of an evaluation study. From a demand perspective, continuing education has not been transparent since the introduction of educational testing in 2002, either. 54% of the popul…
