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Wie wirken Praxis, Empirie und Theorie der Erwachsenenbildung zusammen? Der Autor beschreibt kennzeichnende Merkmale und Aufgaben, um ausgehend von dieser Analyse die Notwendigkeit einer Vermittlung zwischen den drei Bereichen darzulegen. Ziel ist es, Kernpunkte der Erwachsenenbildung herauszuarbeiten, sie einem wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zu unterwerfen und gemeinsam überprüfbare Kriterien festzulegen, um Kontinuität und Qualität des Diskurses sicher zu stellen.
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…
Professionalization in Europe This contribution deals with the state of professionalization in adult education on the level of single member states in the European Union. Concerning this the DIE has brought into being a research group, in which further education researchers from Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy, France and Portugal are represented. The inputs for the constituent assembly of the research group and the first discussions of the initia…
