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The paper examines the extent to which the principles of biomedical ethics can be used for an ethics of pedagogy. First, the principles of biomedical ethics are presented. Second, attention is drawn to similarities in terms of the epistemological status and challenges in medicine and in education. Possible links between principles of biomedical ethics and an ethics of pedagogy are examined.
Over the past few years, various institutional forms of learning centres have been developed. Of these, the “one-stop shop” is the most relevant to the form of cooperation. Here, information, education and advice are all provided at one spot. Management models, structures and the effects of cooperation are elaborated based on this form of cooperation.
Within vocational training, small and medium-sized enterprises are confronted with various problems and challenges. Such enterprises began to initiate and organize specific continuation education programs within networks and other forms of cooperation in order to overcome these problems. This article evaluates such business networks on the basis of an empirical qualitative study focusing on the requirements and preconditions for effective cooperations.
Recognition of informal professional competencies Learning in informal and non-formal contexts has not yet gained wide-spread political and social acceptance, documentation and certification. Due to its individual and contextual situation, informal learning can be recognized via learning results only. Professional competence, including both formal and informal learning strategies, will constitute the foundation for a comparative evaluation and certification of such competencies and abilities.
Older people often lack the competences for the handling of digital media. This is problematic in a society which is more and more based on digital exchanges. Courses of continuing digital education for older people prove to be successful when they are embedded into their living environments. In this article, the author presents several of these educational formats.
The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
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 …
