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„Geringqualifizierte“ gelten in der Wissensgesellschaft zunehmend als Residualkategorie. Anhand sechs qualitativer Interviews ergründet Eva Maaß in ihrer Magisterarbeit die Bewältigungsstrategien und Lebensentwürfe junger Erwachsener, die über keinen formalen beruflichen Abschluss verfügen. Dabei liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass sich das Scheitern in der Bildungsbiografie aus einer langfristigen Entwicklung heraus ergibt. Prekäre familiale Hintergründe sowie negative Erfahrungen im Bildungswese…
Es ist unbestritten, daß die Lebensgeschichten von Teilnehmerlnnen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Alphabetisierungskursen spielen. In dieser Untersuchung geht es deshalb auch nicht darum, die Notwendigkeit von entsprechenden Kursangeboten zu legitimieren, sondern um die Präsentation und Anwendung einer speziellen Methode der Generierung und Interpretation von lebensgeschichtlichen Interviews, die in der Erwachsenenbildung erstaunlich selten angewandt wird – die Methode des narrativ-…
The article focuses on guidance in adult education as a type of institutional talk. Multiple data sources were collected through a comparative case study of two providers to examine how the institutional contexts influenced the guidance. On the one hand the providers define the subjects of their guidance service and their selection of consultants is based on the content knowledge. Also the providers pursue institutional goals with their guidances. On the other hand the guidance-seekers have the…
During the last decade, the configuration of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education has been interwoven with influences of stakeholders of (inter-)national educational policies and their agendas. This paper works with a broad understanding of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education. This understanding includes the interpretation of similarities and differences as well as studies which focus on the cultural interrelationship networks of …
The report includes a slightly revised version of a lecture held during the opening ceremony of the German Continuing Education Day in Berlin in 2012. The author focuses on the day’s central idea: surplus value of continuing education and pleads for the use of the benefit concept, which includes the individual’s perspective, as well as the concept of profit with regard to the social and organizational perspective.
Es ist nahezu ein Allgemeinplatz, von der Pluralität der Lernorte zu sprechen und mittlerweile Konsens, die Vielfalt der Orte des Lehrens und Lernens sowie deren Eingebundensein in gesellschaftliche Strukturen und Funktionen zu akzeptieren und wissenschaftlich zu verorten. Es gibt eine diszplinübergreifende Übereinstimmung darin, dass es neben den traditionellen Orten institutionalisierten und organisierten Lernens eine Vielzahl von „offenen“ und „freien“ Lernorten gibt. In jüngster Zeit gewinn…
Firstly, the author explores the terminological field covering the outcome of educational counselling and develops beneficial dimensions, which are visualised as a network. The author stimulates the German discussion with methodological topics and research results originating in British evaluations. Scientific studies used to confirm the positive effects of educational counselling. Finally the report suggests an agenda for researching the benefits in the field of counselling in continuing edu…
In February 2009, a national association of guidance practitioners and scientific experts, known as the German National Guidance Forum for Education, Career and Employment (nfb), presented a widely recognized key issues paper. The following report comments on the paper from the perspective of continuing education research with a special focus on the following issue: Will the structural improvement of continuing educational counselling lead to an increase of participation in adult education? Due…
