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This article presents the results of an empirical research project in which participants in continuing education and employees were surveyed about their learning times. The survey indicated that (1) continuing education is co-financed on a large scale through the devotion of private time. (2) Individuals show flexibility and commitment in creating their own learning and continuing education times. (3) Times can no longer be clearly assigned to “learning” and “working” even from a subjective poi…
There are only a few studies on the scale and structure of on-the-job-training for elder employees. This article provides basic results using data of the IAB-Establishment-Panel. In addition to human capital theory we try to explain the firm behaviour considering rational choice theory, which allows non-economic explications. After introducing descriptive statistics, the authors test the assumption whether a positive (negative) attitude towards elderly leads to more (less) training. Results ind…
Referiert werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer breitangelegten empirischen Studie - aus dem DIE-Projekt: Mediale Innovationen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Organisation von Weiterbildung - zum Einsatz der neuen Medien innerhalb der Volkshochschulen aus der Perspektive der Organisationsforschung. Die Themenfelder sind: technische Infrastruktur, Betreuung der Infrastruktur, Bedeutung der neuen Medien für die Einrichtung, Impulse für die Entwicklung und Entscheidungsstrukturen, Organisationsentw…
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…
The article provides an insight into the first results of the PIAAC study and links it with mixed-method and qualitative-empirical approaches as well as the development of competencies in life course. For this purpose, it shows two studies which focus an individual development approach in contrast to the quantitative assessment approach of PIAAC. The aim is to present advantages and disadvantages of different research perspectives.
This article focuses on the example of amateur football to explore the connection between institutional educational socialisation, athletic prowess and habitual educational processes. Involvement in upper-level secondary educational requirements helps create a personality structure which generally speaking is marked by a positive attitude towards performance and which creates a positive linkage between the personal skills acquired and recognition afforded in the educational process in specific …
