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Parent and child programmes are the most frequently offered programmes in family education. The intergenerational experiment of education and lifelong learning has proven its worth in adult and family education and may be regarded as a counter weight to the »expertisation« during the early childhood.
The author pursues the issue whether gender equity has been achieved in continuing educational participation. According to Friebel, this question can only be answered if the life and work contexts are considered as a biographic regulative of the participation in continuing education. The underlying empirical data is based on the longitudinal study »Hamburger Biografie- und Lebenslaufpanel« (HBLP), in which findings about the correlation of gender, parenthood and participation in continuing educ…
The article provides an overview of the constellation of stakeholders in health education. It focuses on the publicly funded section and its current challenges such as the participants' age pattern, as well as the range of services and the relating quality standards.
The article reveals the effects of GRUNDTVIG learning partnerships between 2008 and 2012 and points out the most significant contents. The project’s future remains uncertain despite the increasing number of applications for GRUNDTVIG learning partnership. A continuation within »Erasmus for all« or »YES EUROPE« is possible.
The author bridges the gap between culture and education by dealing with two sides of the coin. He initially observes a currently active interest in culture. Cultural education is a generally accepted objective in the field of cultural policy. By using a historical outline, the author illustrates this attribution to a lack of visions in cultural policies. Beneficiaries are institutions for cultural education as well as classical institutions for adult education such as adult education centres. …
Dieser Studientext beschreibt den nationalen und internationalen Stand der Forschung zum Phänomen des funktionalen Analphabetismus. Der Autor grenzt Begrifflichkeiten voneinander ab, veranschaulicht Argumentationsstränge und schafft damit eine fundierte Basis zur Entwicklung neuer Perspektiven und Ansätze für die weitere empirische und theoretische Erforschung von Lese- und Schreibfertigkeitsdefiziten. Studierende der Erwachsenenbildung und interessierte Akteure im Umfeld der Alphabetisierung…
Continuing vocational training and gender justice Albeit at first sight, quantitative data on continuing vocational training participation documents a gradual balancing in the participation quota of women and men, a glance behind the participation figures reveals, however, a more complex picture. Participation in continuing vocational training are determined by factors such as first job, occupation and status as well as private life interrelations which effect women and men differently. This…
Konzepte des selbstgesteuerten Lernens erscheinen auf den ersten Blick als Ausfluss einer spezifischen Rezeption des Konstruktivismus durch die Erwachsenenbildung. Im Gegensatz dazu wird die These vertreten, dass diese innerwissenschaftliche Verarbeitung des Konstruktivismus und die erwachsenenpädagogische Propagierung des selbstgesteuerten Lernens sich als Reflexe auf Modernisierungsimperative verstehen lassen. Mit Konzepten des selbstgesteuerten Lernens geht eine Entprofessionalisierungsstrat…
