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Nowadays, employees are part of a rather dynamic working environment, which is significantly marked by increasing digitalisation. As a result, qualification and competence requirements as well as job contents are changing. Findings by the qualification panel of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) indicate that a company's higher digitalisation level requires higher skill profiles. More digitalised companies also have a larger number continuing education measures, …
The argument in this article is based on a concept that defines values as ‘big principles’. Although the work of education institutions is based on values in that sense, it cannot guarantee those values itself. That is why it is important to not only raise an awareness of values in internal debates among adult educators but also to speak about them explicitly in the classroom. The author believes that pursuing these two strategies makes more sense than formulating a specific ‘ethics of continui…
Political education as a par t of general adult and continuing education with regards to lifelong learning and on the background of social change, is confronted with a new challenge. Science, economics, representatives responsible for education and learning of adults and politics are looking for instruments to navigate the consequences of globalization. – The author focusses – besides social questions of inequality – problems of cultural identity as one of these consequences and identifies lear…
Die Lehrbücher für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung bündeln das Wissen der Disziplin und vermitteln Grundlagenkenntnisse für das praktische und wissenschaftliche Handeln. In Aufbau und didaktischer Gestaltung orientieren sich die Bücher an der Hochschullehre und können veranstaltungsbegleitend oder zum Selbststudium genutzt werden: als Einführung in ein Themengebiet, als Repetitorium zur Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen oder als Nachschlagewerk. In jedem Lehrbuch finden sich Impulse zum Weiterdenke…
Teaching adults with low basic skills requires a large set of special know-how and competences. Due to this fact, the general aim of this module is to give teachers and tutors all necessary information, practices, skills, competences and attitudes to work effectively with adults. - Poster - Description of the module - Timed agenda - Detailed workplan - Handout
The article deals with the importance of decision-making processes referring to professional practices in career counseling and continuing counseling. Based on an empirical analysis of specific details the process of counseling is being illustrated. Parts of this analysis are the counseling interviews that were selected and provided by the consultant him- or herself. Therefore the counseling interviews represent the common practice of the counseling process. The analysis was conducted as an ana…
In der Sammlung texte.online findet sich ein breites Spektrum an forschungs- und praxisrelevanten Texten zu Fragen der Erwachsenenbildung. Die hier veröffentlichten Dokumente tragen zu aktuellen Diskussionen bei und spiegeln Tendenzen in den verschiedenen Praxis- und Theoriefeldern der Weiterbildung wider. Das Spektrum der Texte reicht von Tagungsbeiträgen über statistische Auswertungen und Qualifikationsschriften bis hin zu Forschungsberichten. texte.online wird seit 2012 als Dokumentationsser…
