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From gender related education via the gender mainstreaming to the gender competence The different participation of women and men in adult education gives clues for their different circumstances in life and attributions that have a hierarchic impact concerning the gainful employment and securing of financial existence. These gender typical contexts are traditionally subject matter part of the women's movement or gender related educational work that took up a large space in the adult education…
Participants related and milieu related aspects of participation in adult education It is assumed that the participants quotas, participants interests and participants motivation do not only differ regarding the central sociodemografic features but also differ strongly with regard to the respective milieu affiliation. Theoretically the milieu studies add on to the traditional pilot studies of adult education (cp. Strzelewicz among others 1966) and the differentiating analyses of the modern r…
Exclusion by precarious inclusion and the “new spirit” of adult education “The social question in Europe has a new name: Exclusion” (Kronauer 2002, p. 9). A growing number of groups of the society are in danger of being excluded from the support of the society: the shield against social risks, in the first place unemployment, illness and poverty is increasingly becoming weaker; compensation benefits against a missing justice and selectivity such as for example adult education training opport…
Geringqualifizierte stellen eine wichtige Teilgruppe Bildungsbenachteiligter dar, die mit erhöhten Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungsproblemen konfrontiert sind. Angesichts der Bedeutung lebenslangen Lernens als wichtige Strategie zur Sicherung von Beschäftigungsfähigkeit geht Ingrid Ambos der Frage nach, inwieweit gegenwärtig in der Bundesrepublik Geringqualifizierte in Maßnahmen beruflicher Weiterbildung einbezogen werden. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt in diesem Zusammenhang den verschiedenen Einfl…