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Migrant organisations have developed their own training opportunities for their employees. However, a qualified provision remained difficult. There remain needs of continuing education, e.g. the development of the organisation and its employees. Here the institutions of continuing education are needed.
The article presents key findings of a study on the attitude towards education among immigrants. The study also covers interests in continuing education particularly with regard to parent education programmes.
Vocational continuing education is becoming more significant in modern employment biographies. A growing range of work-based study programmes and the recent opening tendency for persons holding vocational qualifications attracts attention to universities as providers of continuing education. Still, academic formats play a comparatively small role in the market of continuing education. The report explores the reasons for the low acceptance of academic continuing education. For this purpose, 72 p…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
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…
In diesem Report werden beispielhafte innovative und erfolgreiche Werbemaßnahmen und -kampagnen aus dem In- und Ausland vorgestellt, die darauf abzielen, Menschen für die Teilnahme an Weiterbildung zu gewinnen. Diese Aktivitäten unterscheiden sich sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer Urheber und Reichweite als auch in Bezug auf die eingesetzten Instrumente und Medien. Präsentiert werden zum einen allgemeine, personenunspezifische Werbemaßnahmen, zum anderen Beispiele personenspezifischer Bildungswerbung…
The authors take the model of reproduction contexts, which has been developed by Josef Schrader in order to systematize the adult education sector, as a point of departure to discuss the possibilities of its empirical transfer. Based on the re-analysis of structural data of adult education institutions the problems of transfer of a theoretically developed model are explored. They conclude by outlining impulses for further discussions.
Die Trendanalyse des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung ist eine Bestandsaufnahme zum Status quo der Weiterbildung. Sie trägt – nun zum zweiten Mal – die empirischen Daten aus den verschiedenen verfügbaren Quellen und Statistiken zusammen, um Entwicklungslinien in der Weiterbildung zu identifizieren und zu interpretieren. Ausgewertet wurden die aktuellen Trends in den Bereichen Angebots- und Teilnahmestrukturen, Einrichtungen, Personal, Finanzierung. Neu sind vor allem die Darstellunge…
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