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Participation in continuing higher education has various perspectives particularly with regard to lifelong learning. By arrangements in the field of continuing higher education, universities need to react to changing learning and educational biographies as well as to enable prospects in the context of lifelong learning. An important aspect belonging to this is the transfer of knowledge. Based on the definition of influencing factors on transfer of knowledge by von Krogh and Köhne, the system of…
Strategies for the strengthening of networking work Selected results from the context of the programme of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research “Learning culture and competency development” A large number of publications on the subject matter of network are engaged with the conditions of the initiation as well as the management of networks. An issue that has so far been neglected in research however poses the question of the strengthening of networking work. The initiation of netw…
Education or competence – a pseudo alternative? It is a platitude that the structural change of society also leads to structural problems of further education. Therefore this is discusses intensively for some time past and the practical transpositions are gross. The impression of the authors is that it is argued, latently or explicitly, dichothomic even though that in fact is not necessary. In this contribution the authors want to expand on two such contradiction theorems with the intention …
The phenomenon of disordered learning and the resistance against education are reconstructed as a result of purposeful educational determination. Both are collateral costs of institutionalized learning arrangements, at which can be worked anew with educational means on a higher level. Compared with informal and implicit learning, in contexts of formal learning there is a fair chance for resistance against exacting learning demands. So the competence of refusing education might be seen as a base…
Die Produktdatenbank Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung (PAG) ist ein Online-Portal, das ab 2007 entstandene Bildungsmaterialien mit einem inhaltlichen Bezug zur Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung versammelt und v.a. Lehrkräften und Kursplanenden kostenlos bereitstellt. Der Leitfaden richtet sich an alle Personen, die Bildungsmaterialien aus dem Bereich der Alphabetisierung in der PAG veröffentlichen wollen. Er informiert über Kriterien zur inhaltlichen Gestaltung und technischen Beschaffenheit d…
