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The article presents initial findings of the CiLL study - a German extending study on PIAAC. Using the same tools as PIAAC, the study measures reading, numeracy and technology-based problem-solving skills of people between 66 and 80 years of age - an age group, which was excluded in the PIAAC study.
Vienna’s adult education centres have developed a frame curriculum which focuses on the eight European key competences in continuing education with consideration of national and European educational strategies as well as the European Qualification Framework. The report focuses on the frame curriculum’s key elements and its contact points with the National Qualification Framework – taking the programme area of art and culture as an example. Cultural awareness and artistic competence as a key com…
Bildungsangebote zur sozialen Integration in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft müssen dort ansetzten, wo die Rahmenbedingungen für das Leben und Zusammenleben aller Bürger/innen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund gestaltet werden. Verwaltungsbehörden sind als Orte interkultureller Begegnung hierbei von besonderer Bedeutung. Auch die Funktion von Migrantenorganisationen im Integrationsprozess wird zunehmend anerkannt: Ihnen kommt im öffentlichen zivilen Dialog eine Hauptrolle zu. Im Mittelpunkt des …
Vortrag anlässlich der Fachtagung ‚Interkulturelle Altenpflege – von der Theorie zur Praxis’ am 22.01.2002 in Königswinter; Projekt [iku:]
Sind Future Skills der Schlüssel für die Zukunft? Die Autorin erläutert die Tradition zukunftsorientierter Kompetenzen und vergleicht unterschiedliche Future-Skills-Modelle. Sie zeigt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede auf und gibt Impulse, wie Erwachsenenbildung mit diesen Modellen Zukunft aktiv gestalten kann.
The author addresses the assessment of adult economic competences. He also provides a short but critical overview of different approaches to measuring these competences.
The study Competencies in Later Life (CiLL) provides for the first time representative data regarding the competencies of older people between the age of 66 to 80 years in three different domains: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. It is shown that there are significant differences between people with different qualification, but also between people of different birth cohorts. Despite major qualification differences between men and women, there are no signi…
