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“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
During the last decade, the configuration of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education has been interwoven with influences of stakeholders of (inter-)national educational policies and their agendas. This paper works with a broad understanding of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education. This understanding includes the interpretation of similarities and differences as well as studies which focus on the cultural interrelationship networks of …
The main topic “Quality Management Systems in Continuing Training” of the wbmonitor survey 2017 provides statistical results on the dissemination of the different quality management systems (QMS) used in this field of education and analyzed the effectiveness attributed by the institutions. In addition, wbmonitor explored the providers view on the QMS certification process. As every year, the economic situation of the continuing training providers was determined: In 2017, this was at a new all-t…
Seit Mitte Oktober 2010 liegen die Daten des deutschen Adult Education Survey (AES) vor. Das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderte Projekt liefert Daten zur „Weiterbildungsbeteiligung 2010“ in Deutschland und im Trend seit 2007 bzw. 1979. Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung des Schlussberichts traf sich DIE aktuell-Redakteur Thomas Vollmer mit Frauke Bilger, Projektleiterin bei TNS-Infratest, zum Interview. Sie diskutierten die wichtigsten Ergebnisse. Der Schlussbericht ist…
Monika Tröster geht auf die Rahmenbedingungen und Strukturen in den USA ein, beschreibt Schwerpunkte der Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsarbeit und stellt Good Practice Beispiele vor. Da auch die Frage nach der Nutzung der Neuen Medien in diesem Kontext relevant ist, werden spezifische Ansätze dazu präsentiert. Abschließend benennt sie Entwicklungstendenzen und Perspektiven. Der Bereich Adult Basic Education (ABE) und Literacy ist in den USA sehr komplex und uneinheitlich. Auf nationaler…
"Lebenslanges Lernen" wird seit dreißig Jahren international als bildungspolitisches Reformkonzept diskutiert. In Deutschland erlebt der Begriff aber erst seit den 90er Jahren einen unaufhaltsamen Aufschwung. Katrin Kraus gibt anhand der sechs wichtigsten internationalen Dokumente (Permanent Education, Faure-Bericht, Delors-Report u.a.) einen Überblick über Begriff und Karriere des Konzepts "Lebenslanges Lernen", von den 60er Jahren bis zur Gegenwart und untersucht den Einfluss der bildungspo…
The article deals with a change in public, political, and scientific understanding of migration and integration issues, which has to be taken into account by organisations of adult and continuing education. Furthermore the present focus on migration and integration offers new challenges as well as opportunities to improve the role of organisations of adult and continuing education in shaping the German society as an immigration society.
The article analyses the linkage between the age of participants of continuing education and the function which learners appoint to their participation. Therefore, the influence of the subjective age for further education is studied. The study differentiates professional, social and personal functions of participation in continuing education. The result of a factor analysis designs subjective age into the two constructs cognitive and social-psychological subjective age. The data of two survey s…
In February 2009, a national association of guidance practitioners and scientific experts, known as the German National Guidance Forum for Education, Career and Employment (nfb), presented a widely recognized key issues paper. The following report comments on the paper from the perspective of continuing education research with a special focus on the following issue: Will the structural improvement of continuing educational counselling lead to an increase of participation in adult education? Due…
