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Die Veröffentlichung basiert auf einer vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten Untersuchung über die Nachfrageseite des deutschen Weiterbildungsmarktes ("Soziale und regionale Differenzierung von Weiterbildungsverhalten und -interessen"). Ziel der Studie war es, eine umfassende Topographie der Weiterbildungslandschaft Deutschland aus der Sicht der Adressaten und Teilnehmenden zu erstellen. Band 1 bereitet den Befund für die Praxis auf: Was will eine bestimmte Klientel in Be…
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 Autorin begründet in ihrem Beitrag Zielvorstellungen und Anforderungen für die Weiterbildung von Lehrern im Bereich „Interkulturelle Kompetenz“. Den Hintergrund ihrer Argumentation bildet vor allem eine empirische Untersuchung über den Umgang von Referendaren mit kultureller Differenz.
Learning behaviour and milieu as central dimensions at the analysis of the life-long learning process Based on the empirical qualitative research project on "Biography and Learning Behaviour", in which the influence of the generation threshold established knowledge and the origin milieu of dockyard workers in Rostock with which the biographical processing of the societal transformation processes in the former DDR were examined, the following facets are made a subject of discussion. Prefacing…
"Discourses of transformation" A discourse-analytical examination of professionalism coming into being and its changes After a few basic textual and methodological clarifications on an empirical discourse analysis, focused on Höhne, the author verifies with this method the mythological development models of professionalism.
Representative surveys on participation in continuing education are the basis for analyses of lifelong learning as well as a description of the continuing education sector within the educational system. The information which is made available should be sufficiently differentiated in order to be able to distinguish different types of learning activities. One of the most important distinctions is the one between general and continuing vocational education. This article examines how and with what …
The demographic change and the growing demand of skilled workers in Germany puts workers with migration background in the focus of interest in politics, economy, research and, increasingly, of adult education. The following article analyses empirically the relationship between the socio-cultural determinants, which are theoretically embedded in Esser’s model of social integration, and the participation in further vocational education of working adults with a migration background in Germany on t…
A variety of investigations are concerned with examining competencies of professionals in fields of adult education, neglecting the question what characterizes the activities they perform in order to organize learning situations. By analyzing an opening sequence of two different adult education lessons, the author shows, how microethnographic approaches of analyzing videotaped face-to-face interaction offer new insights in how participants ordinarily deal with challenges of establishing and sus…
Dargestellt werden die Ergebnisse einer kleinen empirischen Untersuchung, die den Rahmen und die Inhalte von Vernetzungen von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen in der Region Bergisches Land kritisch überprüft hat. Danach gibt es zwar Kooperationen - bilaterale Beziehungen, aber von Vernetzung der Weiterbildung - mit einem politischen Gestaltungswillen - kann kaum gesprochen werden.
