Research
We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
Services
Digital tools, specialist portals and data – for teachers, researchers, students and interested parties.
Institute
We offer research, transfer and infrastructure for lifelong learning.
Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
Skript des Vortrags von Reiner Erd, Mitarbeiter an der FH Darmstadt, den er im Dezember 1999 am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung gehalten hat. Er benennt rechtliche Probleme bei der Vergabe von Domain-Namen und beim Vertragsabschluss mit einem Provider. Erd geht insbesondere auf den Schutz persönlicher Daten und urheberrechtliche Probleme ein. Seine Ausführungen, die er mit den jeweiligen Gesetzestexten und ihren Auslegungen ergänzt, enden mit einem Ausblick auf die Zukunft des Interne…
The paper reviews trends in adult learning in England in the ten years from the election of Labour government in 1997. It highlighted an initial focus on expanding and widening participation in a wide range of initiatives in the years to 2002. From 2003 there has been a dramatic narrowing of focus giving priority to funding qualifications related to the labour market. Throughout the period it highlights restless change in institutional structures.
Citizens’ involvement increasingly gains appreciation in the public perception. Also in the adult pedagogical discourse the attention is raised in the context of lifelong learning. In this contribution the author discusses how learning processes in adult education, that take place in a societal action context, can be supported, guided or even initiated. On the basis of own empirical inquiries the author examines citizens’ involvement as an action- and learning field and asks for learning experi…
