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This article discusses participation of older people from five different perspectives: the perspective of images of old age, the perspective of individual potentials for change and participation, the perspective of the creation of public space, the perspective of social relationships and the perspective of structures of care. Participation is thus understood as a combination of personal, social, cultural, communal and societal factors. Education is seen as a central mechanism for building struc…
Emil Adolph Roßmäßler kann als erster freier Dozent der Erwachsenenbildung gelten. Anfang der 1860er Jahre war er Mitgründer des Leipziger Arbeiterbildungsvereins und ein entschiedener Kritiker Ferdinand Lassalles. Für ihn war die Natur der Schlüssel von Emanzipation. Politisch-kulturell vermisste E. A. Roßmäßler insbesondere einen in der Selbstachtung begründeten Freiheitsbegriff in Deutschland.
This article is devoted to workplace learning. Rather than formulating normative claims regarding educational processes, the aim is to empirically examine the conditions under which workplace learning takes place. The focus is on the process of needs assessment as part of program planning. Firstly, this process and the stakeholders involved are described for different types of programs. Secondly, an explorative analysis based on the contextual analysis shows how demand decisions are justified. …
On the basic The article looks at which values (defined as ‘conceptions of what is desirable’) are important to managers in continuing education, especially in terms of their interactions with employees, and to what extent they succeed, according to their own perception, in actually doing what is desirable. A re-analysis of interviews with managers acting under different general conditions suggests that collaboration based on participation and solidarity is especially important to all three man…
Copyright matters are tricky. To know and deal with questions regarding copyright with expertise will protect you and your educational institution from legal complications and claims of third parties. What is copyright all about? What is covered by the copyright law? What is necessary to know in teaching contexts? These and further questions are dealt with in this book.
Based on the PIAAC findings, the authors certify international competitiveness to the German educational system and refute the reproach of insufficient training maturity of German trainees. At the same time, they criticise the recruitment practise in businesses, which is marked by an increasing academisation and exclusion of certain applicant groups
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.
