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The reorientation of vocational further education through the Hartz laws, with their introduction of education vouchers, the drastic cutting of expenses for vocational education and complementing orders issued by the Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (federal head institution of employment exchanges) add to an increase in unemployment: institutions in Further Education must reduce their numbers of courses, close down branch offices, and dismiss employees; holders of education vouchers remain without fur…
In der Welt des Zauberlehrlings Harry Potter sind »Muggles« diejenigen Menschen, die sich mit der Zauberkraft kein bisschen auskennen. Das Bild lässt sich auf die »digital divided« Geellschaft übertragen. Sind ältere Erwachsene die »Muggles« des Digitalzeitalters? Hugger hat die Auswirkungen der Neuen Medien auf ältere Erwachsene als Mitautor der „Treumann-Studie" empirisch untersucht und um Überlegungen zu notwendigen Forschungsaspekten und praktischen Handlungsstrategien für die Bildungsarbei…
Is there anything to the cliché of the xenophobic and violence-prone East German? More than many will like: Three modernization and informalisation defects more common to the society of the former GDR than to the Czech Republic or Poland make these defense mechanisms against foreigners more understandable: • a certain „intergenerational resistance to modernisation”, • a GDR-specific „egalitarian outlook“ and • a continuation of subtly racist attitudes within families. The addressing of construc…
„Language, language and nothing but language“ has been the motto of Dutch integration politics since the nineties. The „minority model“ practised before had been put out of use because it emptied the cash boxes and tired out the intrinsic initiative of the minorities. Since 1998, the „Law on the Naturalization of Newcomers“ regulates the educational programme for immigrants, namely, language and general orientation courses, as they are now being introduced in Germany as well. But the Dutch mode…
Anlässlich des Anfang 2002 verabschiedeten Gesetzes über die Validierung des Erfahrungswissens reflektieren die beiden Autoren vom »Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications« (Céreq) die lange Geschichte der Anerkennung individueller Fähigkeiten und insbesondere der an der Arbeitsstelle erlangten Kenntnisse.
Das Zuwanderungsgesetz macht eine Restrukturierung und Koordination bestehender Maßnahmen der Migrationssozialarbeit erforderlich. Wolfgang Bosswick trägt hierzu ein ganzes Maßnahmenbündel zusammen, in das Erkenntnisse zweier Gutachten eingeflossen sind, die er für die Zuwanderungskommission und das hessische Sozialministerium erstellt hat. Er empfiehlt eine ständige interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Integration des Bundes und der Länder. Bestehende Segmentierungen sollen aufgehoben, Verfahren v…
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The author diagnoses a widening gap between scientific and general public: as political and social estimation of science rises, it vanishes from daily life and is taken into well-funded but not ver y well-known institutions and thus hidden from the view of the public. At the same time, ever-rising numbers of people are confronted with the results of scientific research in their daily lives and thus in a way in intimate contact with science, but at the same time unable to understand its workings…
Quality in further education is not supposed first and foremost to serve the educational organisation itself (the „within“), but the learners (the organisation’s „without”). The “without” should therefore have a substantial say when quality measures are developed and evaluated. Dr. Ch. Ehses and Prof. Dr. R. Zech of the “ArtSet Institut für kritische Sozialforschung und Bildungsarbeit e.V.” explain why the external view-point – the learners’ perspective – is essential, how it can work and what …
