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Participating in social movements can support educational success and stabilise educational paths. Ingrid Miethe draws this conclusion after conducting a study with 85 biographic narrative interviews with successful education achievers. The article presents five aspects to illustrate the connection of being involved in movements and educational success.
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der erforderlichen Weiterentwicklung der erwachsenenpädagogischen Organisationsforschung unter der Prämisse der Organisation als zentraler Ermöglichungsbedingung bzw. als „Mittel“ der Ermöglichung von Lern- und Bildungsprozessen Erwachsener. Auf der Grundlage einer Kurzdiskussion des Titels wird die These unterstützt, dass sich die erwachsenenpädagogische Organisationsforschung zukünftig stärker als bislang geschehen mit der empirischen Erkundung und Identifikation …
In this article, the dialogue between young and very old people is examined structurally and with regards to contents in the context of education and learning. Topics, interpretations and motivations are the factors which decide how educational and learning processes of different generations can be shaped and understood.
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.
Traumatisation and national emergency semantics. Continuities in educational policy from Sputnik to the PISA shock The successful launch of the Soviet satellite “Sputnik” in the autumn of 1957 had a lasting impact on u.S. educational policy: expenditures on education and science skyrocketed in order to keep up in the technol-ogy race with the Soviet union. this article explores the conditions in which the launch of a satellite led to a profound shock while at the same time analysing the sema…
The main topic “Quality Management Systems in Continuing Training” of the wbmonitor survey 2017 provides statistical results on the dissemination of the different quality management systems (QMS) used in this field of education and analyzed the effectiveness attributed by the institutions. In addition, wbmonitor explored the providers view on the QMS certification process. As every year, the economic situation of the continuing training providers was determined: In 2017, this was at a new all-t…
This report deals with the significance of the competence model for requirements of daily money management, which was developed in the project "CurVe". It particularly stresses the programme development in the field of financial literacy. In conclusion, the challenges of establishing financial literacy as part of the programme literacy and basic education are outlined.
