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Using the example of the integrated further education of the police of the land Brandenburg this paper examines how a profound measure of reorganisation can be supported by a behaviour oriented further education. Possibilities are being shown of how to achieve the necessary behavioural changes within the larger frame of a reform process with the help of a framework of further education within the organization itself. Changing established patterns of behaviour of adults has proved to be very dif…
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Learning behaviour and milieu as central dimensions at the analysis of the life-long learning process Based on the empirical qualitative research project on "Biography and Learning Behaviour", in which the influence of the generation threshold established knowledge and the origin milieu of dockyard workers in Rostock with which the biographical processing of the societal transformation processes in the former DDR were examined, the following facets are made a subject of discussion. Prefacing…
Self-controlling of learning processes – a basic approach of an empirical substanciation In the first part of the contribution a heuristic systematization of the construct of the self-controlling is carried out. Then selected parts of the results of this theme are presented, taken from a representative questioning of the population concerning adult education behaviour and attitudes towards adult education.
Wann gilt Weiterbildungspolitik als erfolgreich? Was können Politik und andere Weiterbildungsakteure tun, damit Weiterbildungspolitik gelingt? Die Autorin weist auf alte und neue Risiken hin und legt Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen für den Erfolg dar.
Voluntary Commitment and Learning. Results of a Survey on Volunteers by the Federal Government The Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth’s (BMFSFJ) survey on volunteers, carried out in 1999 and 2004, shows that voluntary work is on the rise, especially in the area of work with young people and adult education. Learning motives play a major role in voluntary commitments. Technical expertise is also considered to be important, but more so by men than by women. O…
Development of personality competence and central further education barriers in social milieus Presented are partial results of a current Germany-wide empirical qualitative analysis in which the social and regional differentiation of adult education interests and adult education behaviour in the tradition of milieu research are ascertains and interpreted. On the basis of three social ambiences the development of personality competence and typical further education barriers are introduced.
Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist ein massiver und kontinuierlicher Einbruch der Teilnahmen an Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien zu verzeichnen. Ein besonders starker Rückgang lässt sich für die berufsbezogenen Computerkurse feststellen. Richard Stang geht den Ursachen auf den Grund, benennt strukturelle Probleme der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen und weist auf mögliche Alternativen hin.
Die Veröffentlichung basiert auf einer vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten Untersuchung über die Nachfrageseite des deutschen Weiterbildungsmarktes ("Soziale und regionale Differenzierung von Weiterbildungsverhalten und -interessen"). Ziel der Studie war es, eine umfassende Topographie der Weiterbildungslandschaft Deutschland aus der Sicht der Adressaten und Teilnehmenden zu erstellen. Band 1 bereitet den Befund für die Praxis auf: Was will eine bestimmte Klientel in Be…
