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The author unmasks »education for sustainable development « as an empty phrase, which has failed as a trademark in public relations. Not even the teachers would know what exactly is concealed behind it textually. Per decree an orientational concept of politics and administration is prescribed in order to encounter practitioners with great reserve. Ultimately education for sustainable development is nothing more than plainly modern education.
"Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" - eine schwieriger Markenname für ein wichtiges Bildungsprodukt. Aber Nachhaltigkeit kann nicht nur theoretisch vermittelt werden, sondern muss im Alltag gelebt werden; damit kommen informellen Lernprozessen eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
Mit fünf Kurzbeiträgen zu Projekten im Themenbereich "Lernen in Weiterbildungseinrichtungen" stellt sich der Projektverbund OKRA vor. OKRA steht für "Professionalisierung begleitender Lernberatung in unterschiedlichen Handlungskontexten". Die vorgestellten Gestaltungsprojekte kommen aus den Bereichen Altenhilfe, Schulen des Gesundheitswesens, aus der Beratungspraxis für kleine Wirtschaftsunternehmen und der Lernberatung für Migrant/inn/en.
Ein Bericht über eine neue, interdisziplinäre Veranstaltungsform zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, die im März 2005 stattfand.
The "learning time account" links the politics of working hours with professional adult education. As a derivative from the "working hours account" it represents an instrument with which the worked for time demands of the employee is changed into adult education instead of into money. Depending on whether the adult education serves work related or private matters, the resources are made available by the employer or by the employee (time and money). In the discussion of lifelong learning the ins…
The contribution summarizes occasion, assignment, object, procedure and results of the evaluation of the North Rhine-Westphalian law of adult education. Thereby it also includes following statements of clients an association. Going out from this it tries to find answers to general questions concerning the evaluation of adult education laws. For the question of objectivity of analyses and results the disclosure of the targets and the independence of researcher teams are vital.
Large parts of adult education are not being reached through relevant laws at all anymore. Thus a factual deregulation is the consequence. This loss of scope faces a growing provision profundity of those laws thar are tangent to the adult education area and that have been revised lately. The author draws attention to this ambivalent context by means of the most important legal basis of adult education: the adult education laws of the German states and the social statute book III (SGB III).
