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As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…
Based on the background of selective access to further education institutions and the relevance of intercultural understanding and opening, the focus on transition processes within further education institutions will provide benefits for research and development in further education. Results from a qualitative study that was part of the LIQ project will be presented. The analysis of the interviews could be used to highlight diverse and complex aspects that influence the transition from target g…
ReSuDI is an innovative company prevention concept for semi-skilled and unskilled employees, who, in Germany, increasingly have a migrational background. Due to the difficult access to this target group, ReSuDi involves multipliers, who can influence the employees during their daily working routine. As a result, they are able to initiate learning processes and improve the working condition. ReSuDi is a comprehensive organisational programme, i.e. all hierarchy levels are included and personal a…
"Further education for all" as a theory problem On pedagogy and its partial areas The policy metaphor "further education for all" poses a challenge for further education processes in adult education and the special education. It puts aspects of disability and disadvantage from the edge into the centre of the theory problems. The question is how further education and special education (can) deal with the altered public problem horizon. It is analysed how the two pedagogical partial areas cho…
Ist die Zukunft der Bildung durch Technologie geprägt? Das steht für Dr. Anna Hansch, Senior Customer Success Manager bei LinkedIn, und Andreas Dörich, Geschäftsführer der oncampus GmbH, außer Frage. Doch was bedeutet »gute Bildung« in diesem Zusammenhang? Welches sind die Stärken der EdTech-Branche, und welche Rolle spielen pädagogische Fragen? Hierüber sprachen Hansch und Dörich mit Redakteur Jan Rohwerder.
One aim of the European Commission is to improve the number of graduates between 30 and 34 years to 40?% for 2020. This requirement provides the university with new material for the promotion of this target group. Current university didactic concepts, such as mentoring programs, can be used to address these challenges. The following article gives an overview of mentoring in higher education and reports on first experiences of participants in the mentoring program “MEwiSA” at the University of D…
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
As part of a joint project a learning game is currently being developed for adults who are functionally illiterate. Following a generally positive experience with the role of the new media in teaching work with this target group, the partners in the project, including the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE), are now focussing specifically on game-based training. This article introduces the reader to the basic concept of the game and identifies the factors in its use which are critical to…
Dieser Band verbindet die Forschung im Feld der Alphabetisierung mit der Erwachsenenbil-dungsforschung. Dazu wird erstens ein aktueller Überblick über den empirischen Forschungsstand im Feld der Alphabetisierung gegeben, der entlang der klassischen Forschungslinien in der Erwachsenen-bildungswissenschaft systematisiert wird. Zweitens werden die Ergebnisse eines pädagogischen Lernforschungsprojekts im Feld der Alphabetisierung vorgestellt. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Untersuchung wurden typ…
Die hochqualifizierten Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Generation Y, die nun in Entscheidungspositionen vorrücken und zunehmend den Bedarf an Bildungsangeboten mitbestimmen werden, haben spezifische Erwartungen in Bezug auf die Nachhaltigkeit von Bildungsangeboten und -einrichtungen. Anhand von Fokusgruppeninterviews arbeitet die Autorin diese Erwartungen heraus und legt dar, welche Folgen dies für Bildungsanbieter hat.
