Rückblicke Lernen und arbeiten an unterschiedlichen Orten?

The term learning place was introduced into the peadagogical professional jargon and into education political linguistic usage by the German education council in 1974. The learning places named by the German education council (school, company, apprenticeship workshop and studio) gain their specifity through their different paedagogical functions in the learning process. Initially home in the area of vocational education, the term was later also adapted by adult education. That is where there is…

Europäische Perspektiven der Erwachsenenbildung

Nachdem die Europäische Union in den vergangenen Dekaden Einfluss auf die Bildungssysteme ihrer Mitgliedsstaaten genommen hat, zeichnet sich die Herausbildung einer eigenständigen europäischen Erwachsenenbildungspolitik ab. Der Studientext will zu einem tieferen Verständnis dieser Entwicklungen beitragen. Hierfür werden die zentralen Inhalte, Akteure und Instrumente der europäischen Bildungspolitik vorgestellt. Anhand der Diskussion zentraler Begriffe wird darüber hinaus die Vielschichtigkeit d…

Wissenschaftliche Aus- und Weiterbildung zur Berufsberatung im internationalen Vergleich

Scientific Training and Further Education on Career Guidance in International Comparison Most international experts insist that neutral and efficient career guidance can only be guaranteed by a very high professional proficiency of the counsellors. In recent years qualification offers for trainers have huge differences in both quality and contents of training. The contribution illustrates, on the basis of international studies, the efforts to establish European standards of qualifications fo…

Lernberatung - die Geschichte eines Konzepts zwischen Stigma und Erfolg

Glossar Valorisierung - mehr als ein Gespenst

The term »valorization« has gained a wide distribution by the EU support programme of vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci). The author points to the prospective that the term will soon be able to establish itself in other educational areas. Valorization can be described as a process of dissemination and utilization of project results with the aim of optimizing their value, increasing their impact and integrating them into training systems. A correlatively strategy shall be existent in projec…

Management and Further Training

CVT in Enterprises - Report on Qualitative Interviews with Branch Experts and Enterprises in the Branches Metal and Food on Enterprise-Based Continuing Vocational Training (CVT) in Germany

Lebensweg zu und Motive bei der Entscheidung, in der Kindertagespflege tätig zu sein

In day care nursery, people without a preceding educational training can be employed after a vocational re-training. For the employees, a new professional perspective and a non-normative transition open up. Analysing focused-narrative interviews with two child minders, we intend to reconstruct the motives of these women for such a professional re-orientation.

Qualifikationsrahmen als globales Phänomen

Educational training frameworks have been implemented throughout the entire world since the 1980s in reaction to educational training policy exigencies and the need for economic reforms. This article makes systematic distinctions between educational training frameworks and describes specific national forms. By the same token, it is evident that the systematic inclusion of general, vocational and university educational training has been sought more or less throughout the world in order to make…

Gerechtigkeit (in) der beruflichen Weiterbildung?

Justice in/of continuing vocational training? Is there a correlation between continuing training and justice, or put differently; can continuing training contribute to improving opportunities for social participation? The authors pose this question in a broader societal context and approach it against the background of the social capital approach. They refer to empirical findings from Northern Ireland which put into perspective the wide-spread idea of the positive correlation of social capit…