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Non-Participation in Work-based Training in Europe. Results of a Field Study CVTS3 After a review of theories and empirical results concerning enterprise-based continuing training, results of the enterprise survey CVTS3 are discussed with a focus on training abstinence. It is shown that most non-training enterprises do not see a need for training. Public financing measures for the promotion of continuing training are likely to be less efficient for these enterprises, while awareness campaign…
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…
Changing the focus on Natural Sciences At present, public debates postulate more attention to natural sciences in the education sector. First, we will examine the precarious status of natural sciences in adult education and than argue that the traditional focus on natural sciences need to be readjusted. This change of focus aims at a general understanding of scientific developments by which both the individual and the society as a whole will gain and maintain its capacity to judge and act on…
While political education appears to be of secondary importance in the national grants policy, on the European plane it is coming to a new blossoming. The European ministers of education are working towards a joint educational planning programme and are looking for common aims in political education. The pertinent grants programmes are a rich source of for good practice. In cross-section tasks the intertwining of political education and political development manifests itself. Monika…
Federal law as envisaged in the socalled Hartz paper provides for the introduction of education vouchers. Is political education concerned? Against this background, the author explores funding structures of political education on the federal as well as on the Länder plane, of municipalities and foundations. Her verdict is disenchanting: many institutions of political education, especially the very small ones, are facing their end. This is corroborated by two statements of experts from the field…
After the federal elections, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has taken on a new organisational structure. For the first time, its activities in further education are now bundled together in a seperate department (»Lifelong Learning, Further Education«), thus enabling the ministry to »speak with one voice«. On top of this, the superior department is »University, Further Education«, which shows that the two are considered as equivalent from the organisationalpolitical viewpoint.
Ein Blick auf die Krise in der politischen Bildung von den 1960er Jahren bis heute.
The article sets out to identify common prejudices on e-learning. Its pedagogical surplus depends on the methodical-didactic design. The authors back their verdict by experiences of learners in an online-based course. Learners judge new-mediasupported learning as being intensive, communicative, but time-consuming. E-learning requires self-discipline, selfmotivation, self-organisation, good time management and basic technical competences.
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…
In der Diskussion zwischen Theo W. Länge, Bundesgeschäftsführer des Bundesarbeitskreises Arbeit und Leben, und Karsten Rudolf, Autor des 'Berichts politische Bildung 2002', werden grundsätzliche Fragen der Teilnehmerorientierung und der Veränderungsnotwendigkeiten der Angebote politischer Erwachsenenbildung kontrovers ausgetragen. Besonders die vom Bericht politische Bildung erhobene Diskrepanz zwischen faktischer und möglicher erreichbarer Teilnehmerzahlen und der Vorschlag, zwischen Breiten- …
