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In der Berufsbildung ist die Diskussion über europäische und nationale Qualifikationsrahmen in vollem Gange. Die Erwachsenenbildung fühlt sich nicht recht »gemeint« – außer, was die Qualifikation ihrer eigenen Profession angeht – aber das ist dann ja wieder Berufsbildung, gewissermaßen. Das Heft hat weitere Verbindungen zwischen Qualifikationsrahmen und Erwachsenenbildung herstellen wollen, es wird ja immerhin ein ganzes Bildungssystem auf outcome umgestellt. Neue Bezüge zeigen sich indes in de…
Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…
This issue of REPORT focuses on current trends in adult and continuing education in various European countries, with a particular emphasis on the situation in Spain, Romania, Finland, Great Britain and Germany. Documenting the results of an international lecture series held at the University of Essen-Duisburg, the essays, for the first time, are presented in English. The articles gathered in this REPORT may serve as a point of departure for further studies in this area of research and contribut…
This contribution summarizes the most important trends in further education in Germany as they were elaborated in a secondary analytic research project of the DIE (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenbildung – German Institute for Adult Education) in 2007. According to the study, participation in adult education in Germany is increasing after long years of decrease, even though, overall, financing of adult education has been further reduced. Cooperation as well as competition between adult educatio…
Colleagues from various European countries were invited to an international lecture series at the University of Duisburg-Essen to talk about trends in adult and continuing education. Looking back on this lecture series, we intend to examine different approaches to the term “trend” as well as to outline results of current research in adult and continuing education. We will then give an overview of main arguments of the essays presented in the following. Finally, common trends in European adult a…
The paper reviews trends in adult learning in England in the ten years from the election of Labour government in 1997. It highlighted an initial focus on expanding and widening participation in a wide range of initiatives in the years to 2002. From 2003 there has been a dramatic narrowing of focus giving priority to funding qualifications related to the labour market. Throughout the period it highlights restless change in institutional structures.
Recent international trends in Adult Education (AE) mirror the diverse realities this field is experiencing around the world. This article discusses the trend towards democratization through a revision of existing knowledge in three main domains: theory, research and practice. First, a theoretical framework of democratization as applied in AE will be outlined. Second, recent research developments will be reviewed as they inform the process of democratization through Adult Education which is occ…
This article examines the guidelines and objectives of political (societal) and citizenship education in Finland during the past 40 years approximately. During this relatively short period different programmes have arisen which aptly reflect changes which have taken place, in viewpoints, in the social atmosphere and in citizens’ political interests. The article is concerned with the reports of two committees, the Adult Education Committee and the Lifelong Learning Committee, since the beginning…
Does law governing continuing education distinguish between general and vocational education? This article examines the question as to whether and in what manner applicable law governing continuing education in Germany distinguishes between general and continuing vocational education. The analysis of the historical line of development shows that this was definitely the case especially during the phase of the so-called “qualification campaign” in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present, on the ot…
»57/07« steckt den zeitlichen Horizont ab, der die Geschichte des Instituts markiert: 1957 gegründet, wird das DIE im Herbst 2007 50 Jahre alt. So ist die vorliegende Ausgabe eine Festausgabe – und irgendwie auch doch nicht. Wie in der DIE Zeitschrift üblich, soll nicht das Institut selbst im Mittelpunkt stehen, sondern das, was draußen passiert (ist). Gliederndes Prinzip bei der Auswahl der Themen sind dabei öffentlich bedeutende Ereignisse des Gründungsjahres, die ihre Schatten weit in die Fo…
