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Ahnen Building bridges, supported by further education and continuing education Transitions between education areas from an education political view The contribution analyses from an education political view how the mastery of transitions between education areas can be guided. Hereunto the author, minister of education of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, reminds of measures which were decided on in the course of this state’s presidency of the German Federal Conference of the ministers of edu…
Transitions as a test case The concept of lifelong learning and the penetrability of the educational system With the concept of lifelong learning a better interleave of the educational areas is intended. The contribution analyses central sources on how the educational politics has strategically handled the role of lifelong learning and which practices it virtually has supported: With a strategy paper of the federal state and the states of the federation on lifelong learning as well as on the…
People constitute learning places themselves when a relational room perspective is the starting point of their action. Room in the learning place company can be relationally structured by further education processes. Spacings, syntheses and the consequently following dynamisation of learning places open up possibilities which contribute to a reinforced exchange of experiences. Participants of further education positively evaluate this exchange of experiences because it takes place near the wor…
The contribution introduces experience orientated learning places such as museums, science centers, zoos, theme parks, but also Brandlands and Urban Entertainment Centers. These learning places complement formal learning and offer room for self-controlled and strong emotionally established learning. Requirements for such hybrid basic approaches are formulated by education and entertainment. These assessments rest upon the results of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education…
For the author the term of learning place is like a bus: In lifelong learning there is learning always and everywhere. Anyhow the term is important as a perspective for contemplation and as a heuristic key. The author goes into the matter of the different facets of the term and formulates tasks of learning places, especially in the borderless learning area of lifelong learning. He critically points out by all means several excesses of the learning place development, where the didactical figu…
This article discusses the Federal German “Orientation course“ and different prototypes for “naturalisation tests“ in the German Länder in the context of comparative integration policy. Integration courses and naturalisation tests have at the same time become a policy tool for promoting integration in a targeted manner in various countries which attract immigration. Following a presentation of the context and the presentation of instruction material in the orientation courses, the authors inter…
