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With this Portrait Adult Education the DIE presents an updated edition of its previous Country Reports. It contains an outline of the history of adult education in Germany, provides information on its legal basis and funding structures and supplies recent statistical data on adult education offers, institutions and staff. Portrait Adult Education offers researchers, students and practitioners dense and clear information on the current system as well as on future trends and prospects of German a…
As empirical studies have shown, the Germans’ knowledge of financial affairs is rather poor. Basic knowledge on banking and insurance is often absent, even though it is essential in times when provision for a safe future increasingly becomes everyone’s personal responsibility. Even if relevant content were taught at schools comprehensively and from this moment on, today’s adults would still remain ignorant. Therefore, a tremendous task lies ahead for adult education to provide relevant knowledg…
In dem Beitrag wird die wissenschaftliche Begleitung des Programms Lernende Regionen - Förderung von Netzwerken vorgestellt. Das Programm, das zur Regionalisierung von Bildung dient, fördert bundesweit 82 Netzwerke und wird vom BMBF und den europäischen Sozialfonds finanziell unterstützt. Die wissenschaftliche Begleitung durch ein Konsortium umfasst drei Bereiche. Zwei davon sind mit einem Evaluationsauftrag - z.B. Nachhaltigkeit überprüfen - verbunden, der dritte Aufgabenbereich besteht d…
