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References to theory of present research on further education Commonly in the scientific discourse one distinguishes between basic research and implementation orientated research. The latter often takes place as order research that in the ususal case is application orientated and practice orientated. This type of research often exhibits only an implicit reference to theory as several examples show. In this context an intensified co-operation between basic research and implementation orientat…
From gender related education via the gender mainstreaming to the gender competence The different participation of women and men in adult education gives clues for their different circumstances in life and attributions that have a hierarchic impact concerning the gainful employment and securing of financial existence. These gender typical contexts are traditionally subject matter part of the women's movement or gender related educational work that took up a large space in the adult education…
Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
Development of personality competence and central further education barriers in social milieus Presented are partial results of a current Germany-wide empirical qualitative analysis in which the social and regional differentiation of adult education interests and adult education behaviour in the tradition of milieu research are ascertains and interpreted. On the basis of three social ambiences the development of personality competence and typical further education barriers are introduced.
In der gesellschaftlichen und weitgehend auch in der wissenschaftlichen Debatte scheint Konsens darüber zu herrschen, dass sich Erwerbsbiographien zunehmend diskontinuierlich gestalten. Die Befunde der empirischen Sozialforschung bestätigen bislang – auf die Gesamtheit bezogen – allerdings keine deutliche Zunahme von Diskontinuitäten in den Erwerbsbiographien. Jedoch steigt die Zahl derjenigen, die Gruppen mit höherem Diskontinuitätsrisiko zuzurechnen sind. Dazu zählen u. a. Jugendliche ohne Sc…
Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist ein massiver und kontinuierlicher Einbruch der Teilnahmen an Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien zu verzeichnen. Ein besonders starker Rückgang lässt sich für die berufsbezogenen Computerkurse feststellen. Richard Stang geht den Ursachen auf den Grund, benennt strukturelle Probleme der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen und weist auf mögliche Alternativen hin.
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…
Tendencies towards individualization have led to a pluralization of situations, phases and styles of living. Disengagement with reference to course participants manifests itself in the diversification of the group of course participants as far as their life situation (vertical disengagement), life phase (temporal disengagement) and style of living (horizontal disengagement) are concerned. The concept of social milieus as an integrative approach can represent tendencies of liberation and can a…
Begriffklärungen rund um das Thema Entgrenzung.
Private individuals in Germany bear in some cases high costs individually and spend leisure time to a considerable extent for their professional further qualification. To what extent does the investment of money and time pay for course participants in further education? The author outlines how course participants estimate to which degree they benefit from their professional further education and how they judge the relationship of cost and effect. A high degree of satisfaction is found. However…
