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Various needs and requirements need to be taken into account for developing urban educational spaces. At the same time, the demand for cooperation between educational and cultural institutions creates obvious and concealed competition between educational and cultural planners. Based on a scientific project support, this article provides guidance on the causes and handling of potential competition.
The article provides an insight of the opportunities and challenges of analysing spatial aspects in continuing education including the various concepts of spatial references. Regional continuing education characteristics are presented based on initial findings of the German Continuing Education Atlas.
Using the example of the town of Marl, located on the edge of the Ruhr area, the author points out the significance of the interaction between education and culture for urban development. He also shows which paths a town may take to deal with the structural change.
In dieser international-vergleichenden Studie über das Bildungsmonitoring zum Lebenslangen Lernen werden Fragen nach den Steuerungswirkungen supra- und internationaler Organisationen wie EU und OECD bei der Implementierung ihrer bildungspolitischen Ansätze in drei europäischen Staaten (Deutschland, Griechenland, Finnland) untersucht. Dabei kommen die im Rahmen einer outputorientierten Steuerung eingesetzten Steuerungsinstrumente, wie Bildungsmonitoring und -berichterstattung, und deren Auswirku…
Migrants are faced with the particular challenge of gaining acknowledgment and social acceptance of their qualifications acquired in their country of origin. They stand to benefit from a comprehensive implementation of the lifelong learning strategy. The acknowledgement of individual skills and competences should not depend on the individual learning environment. Being successful in the labour market is an important objective for holders of foreign qualifications. In addition, being located in …
This article presents the findings of a research project on structure and change in continuing education in Bremen, set out as a longitudinal analysis of selected years between 1979 and 2006. At the level of the continuing education system as a whole, the author identifies a certain structural stability evident from the fact that despite a growth in the number of market-oriented providers from 1996 to 2006, their competition – providers under public law – retained its structural influence on th…
