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Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised d…
Given the current debate over qualifications and skills of teachers in adult education, the continuing education programme “Basic qualification for literacy and basic educational work” developed within the framework of the joint project ProGrundbildung seeks to professionalise adult education teachers who work in or who want to work in the field of literacy and basic education. The authors present the concept of continuing education and discuss the data on personnel structure, motives for under…
Professionelles Handeln ist auch in der Bildungsberatung wichtiger denn je. Voraussetzung dafür ist neben der Aneignung notwendiger Kompetenzen die Ausbildung eines individuellen wie öffentlichen Bewusstseins für die Spezifik der Beratungstätigkeit. Schließlich kommt es in der Beratungssituation vor allem auf die Fähigkeit zu wechselseitiger Wahrnehmung und angemessener Reaktion an. Basierend auf Modellen aus der Psychoanalyse und anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis stellt Jörg Knoll Metho…
Organisation and growth of the continuing training market is increasingly taking place within the private economic sector. There also is increasing reporting coverage of continuing training in accordance with the significance of lifelong learning for societal participation and the retention of occupational competences. In order to enable an accurate picture of the situation and developments of providers of general and vocational education and training to be given, it would be useful to have a k…
Counselling: Changes for a Sustainable Development If counselling should survive as a generally accepted human service at the beginning of the 21st century, a fundamental shift in paradigms and the therewith connected development of sustainable offers for counselling becomes necessary. Permanent co-evolution of needs from clients, economy and society calls for specific skills and knowledge for analysis and coping with multiple subjective realities, ecological contexts, non-linear causalities…
Profession-biographical formation competence and deliberation on these On national as well as on international level (OECD) there are currently deliberations on the subsequent study for adults (for example PIAAC study of OECD). Besides the rather cognitive domains such as for example literacy, numeracy or problem solving, it proves as significant primarily the survey of vocation biographical formation competence of adults against the background of the labour market political changes and t…
In diesem Beitrag werden die Ergebnisse der Evaluierung der Fortbildungsreihe Beratung des DIE, die über 10 Jahre lang für Mitarbeitende aus unterschiedlichen Organisationen und Einrichtungen der Erwachsenenbildung durchgeführt wurde, dargestellt. Ziel des Evaluationskonzepts war es die Wirkung der Fortbildung zu analysieren. Ausgangsmaterial für diese Auswertung waren: eine Übersicht über Entwicklung, Struktur, Inhalte und Ziele der Fortbildung; vorliegende Teilnehmerdaten und die Befragu…
PIAAC reveals the deficits of basic competences within the adult population. To master this problem, which also applies to the labour market, the author calls for establishing a Federal Office for the protection of basic education. This office may be an opportunity for people with and without a migrational background, persons seeking employment as well as precariously employed people to attend vocational education and training programmes, which are funded by the government.
The article critically examines PIAAC as well as its objectives. It examines the extent of information provided by PIAAC on untapped competence potential, the needs to improve the acquisition as well as the transfer of competences. It is also an analysis of the study's theoretical and methodological base. At the same time, it reveals the problems and deficiencies of the PIAAC study and offers solutions.
In companies, ProfilPASS advisors are encountered by many stakeholders in a complex environment. Therefore, the application of the ProfilPASS tool needs to be well prepared and coordinated with all people involved within the company. The guideline at hand provides ProfilPASS advisors with extensive knowledge and additional practical recommendations for using ProfilPASS in companies. It provides a step-by step demonstration how the ProfilPASS can be used and which aspects need to be taken into c…
