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During the last two decades widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evolu…
The process of regulation in the heterogeneous field of education and examination necessarily creates encounters and collaboration of persons, who are standing for different positions and have variable styles of action. In a research project, initiated and financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the transfer of formal regulations for examination in certain fields of further education into the reality of the examination has been analyzed. The project utilized three regulated e…
It becomes apparent in the current critique on methods of competence diagnostics that the problem does not lie in empirical or methodical, but mainly in theoretical deficits. Psycho-dynamic explanations are missing. Moreover, competences are mainly constructed as individual traits while social dimensions are ignored. Both deficits are considerable blank spaces. This paper argues that competence cannot be the cause of performance, but only the conscious notion of how masterly ways of acting look…
Effects of continuing education tests Continuing education tests aim at improving transparency of the quality of programmes on offer and initiating processes to improve quality at providers of continuing education. But what has the impact of continuing education tests been to date? The authors present selected results of an evaluation study. From a demand perspective, continuing education has not been transparent since the introduction of educational testing in 2002, either. 54% of the popul…
The Dynamis review has been designed to provide an overview about applications of the Dynamis approach in cognitive psychology. Since the development of computer-based scenarios Dynamis, based on linear structural equation systems, has become increasingly popular as a tool for analysing decision making and complex problem solving. Beginning with the role of system size, connectivity, and types of relations in a system (e. g, eigendynamics and side effects) it has been discussed how formal syste…
Like a fabric made of different threads, adult education waives multiple places and reveals different paces whose influences may be complementary, contradictory and antagonistic with each other. The spaces and times that shape people’s life are rarely static or constant. They evolve and fluctuate. Every day, throughout their existence, people have to learn to adjust, coordinate and move through material, natural, social and symbolic environments that keep evolving. The aim of this paper is to e…
To work beyond the age of 65 is a process that will soon become an economic and social necessity in Europe. A growing group of persons already work beyond the legal retirement age in Germany and Europe. Therefore, it is interesting to look at the characteristics and motivation of this group. Investigating four case studies from persons working beyond the legal retirement age in Germany, the following findings were made. Most commonly known reasons and factors for longer working have been confir…
Der Begriff »Lernort« nimmt in der Erwachsenenbildung ständig breiteren Raum ein – im lebenslangen Lernen wird immer und überall gelernt, und immer neue Plätze werden als Lernorte deklariert. Dennoch ist der Begriff nicht klar definiert und beinhaltet zahlreiche Facetten. Die »DIE Zeitschrift« trägt zur Klärung bei, wirft einen Blick auf die Geschichte des Lernortbegriffes in der Berufs- und Erwachsenenbildung, erinnert an antike Lernorte, benennt die Aufgaben von Lernorten im lebenslangen Lern…
Das Heft Erwachsenenbuilding spannt den Horizont auf zwischen Weiterbildung und den Begriffen Bewegung, Sport und Körper. Anlässe hierfür gibt es mehrere: Ein Europäisches Jahr der Erziehung durch Sport 2004, eine pädagogische Debatte, die über die Rezeption der Neurobiologie den Körper wiederentdeckt, und schließlich eine zunehmend entgrenzte Weiterbildung, die Blicke über den Tellerrand der organisierten Erwachsenenbildung immer wichtiger werden lässt. Die Beiträge handeln u.a. von der Weiter…
Support in der Erwachsenenbildung ist mehr als seine Übersetzung ins Deutsche. Support bezeichnet ein nachhaltiges System von Unterstützungs-, Entscheidungs- und Steuerungsstrukturen. Ekkehard Nuissl verweist im Gespräch auf die Notwendigkeit, in der Weiterbildung insgesamt eine solche Supportstruktur aufzubauen. Das Heft beleuchtet den theoretischen und politischen Kontext des Begriffs (Faulstich/Zeuner); gibt Beispiele für nationale und internationale Kooperationen (Gruber) und für wissenscha…
