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Spätestens seit den 1990er Jahren wird das Internet als ein besonderer Ansatz- und Bezugspunkt für pädagogische und organisatorische Neuentwicklungen und Veränderungen angesehen. Derzeit mehren sich allerdings die Hinweise darauf, dass die weit reichenden Innovations- und Veränderungserwartungen, die seitens der politischen Bildung in das Internet gesteckt wurden und werden, empirisch kaum nachvollziehbar sind. Karin Dollhausen lotet im Rekurs auf die Erkenntnisse und Befunde der neueren Intern…
Within the federal programme »On-Site Learning«, the General Bureau of Education in Aachen is responsible for the municipal coordination of educational counselling in ten communities. The presented three-pillar model includes the qualification of educational counsellors, training for educational guides for and the compass training guidance as an associated information medium. The concept aims at improving the transparency of publicly accessible educational counselling as well as approaching edu…
Subjects move and act in spatial contexts and through their actions, they create spaces. This also applies to adult learning and to the professional practice of adult education, yet the systematic incorporation of spatial aspects into adult education research to date has remained marginal. This publication takes the category of space as a focal point, with the various chapters defining and honing its meaning for adult education. It brings together the relevant theoretical discourses, summarizes…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
The article illustrates a heuristic model that describes the multidimensional interdisciplinary social phenomena of functional illiteracy in a clearly arranged way. To implement professional literacy programmes that match the different target groups, scientific findings about educational deprivation, life circumstances and barriers to equal participation in connection with low literacy skills are to be arranged in a proper order. One result of the research project “HABIL” is the development of …
Seit Ende der 80er Jahre hat sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen die Diskussion um ein neues Verständnis von Erwachsenenbildung in der Region entwickelt, das vor allem durch die Leitideen von Gemeinwesenarbeit und eigenständiger Regionalentwicklung geprägt ist. In dem Sammelband geht es um Erfahrungen und Perspektiven regionaler Erwachsenenbildung im Umbruch. Neben einer Zwischenbilanz mit Berichten und Analysen von unterschiedlichen Trägern aus der ländlichen und regionalen Weiterbildungspraxis …
Appropriate money management is a mandatory everyday competence. Until now, didactic approaches in the field of financial literacy were non-existent. This document presents a competence model, which systematises and describes the requirements of managing money. Various practical potential uses as well as programme formats are presented. Examining three good practice examples for different target groups, the document provides practical guidance including corresponding exercises and check lists f…
The author prefers the term of »sustainable learning« compared with »education for sustainable development«, because she sees the numerous non-institutionalised learning processes being included. The UN decade is a challenge for a variety of learning places, protagonists and target groups. She confronts the chances for the decade with several social, above all individual barriers, which complicate the learning of sustainability. Besides the value attitudes and emotions above all here the factor…
As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…
