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Private individuals in Germany bear in some cases high costs individually and spend leisure time to a considerable extent for their professional further qualification. To what extent does the investment of money and time pay for course participants in further education? The author outlines how course participants estimate to which degree they benefit from their professional further education and how they judge the relationship of cost and effect. A high degree of satisfaction is found. However…
Das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis ist spannungsvoll. Aus Sicht der in der Erwachsenenbildung Tätigen erscheinen Theorien häufig unbrauchbar, weil sie zu abstrakt und praxisfern wirken. Hier baut der Studientext eine Brücke. Der Autor zeigt in seiner vollständig aktualisierten und erweiterten 3. Auflage verschiedene in der Erwachsenenbildung gängige Theorieansätze auf, verortet sie hinsichtlich Herkunft und Reichweite und verweist auf ihre Bedeutung für die Planung und Gestaltung von Bildun…
Der vorliegende Bericht beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der bundesweiten alphamonitor-Erhebung des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. zum Weiterbildungsangebot in der Alphabetisierung/Grundbildung für das Berichtsjahr 2016. Zu diesem unter bildungs- und sozialpolitischen Gesichtspunkten wichtigen Themenfeld der Erwachsenenbildung werden Daten zu Umfang und Ausrichtung des Angebots in den beiden Teilbereichen, zur Teilnahme, zu den Lehrenden…
The staff in adult and continuing education is the most important factor for a high quality and demand-oriented development of training courses and their effective implementation. However, there existed only insufficient data and information on these persons. For the first time, the wb-personalmonitor now provides data on demographics, employment situation, living conditions, job profiles, qualifications as well as job related attitudes for the staff in adult and continuing education. Thus, the…
Organisation and growth of the continuing training market is increasingly taking place within the private economic sector. There also is increasing reporting coverage of continuing training in accordance with the significance of lifelong learning for societal participation and the retention of occupational competences. In order to enable an accurate picture of the situation and developments of providers of general and vocational education and training to be given, it would be useful to have a k…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
In view of the demographic change the investments in education for elderly population are becoming increasingly more important. At the same time the educational system’s endeavours of repair are rather targeted at the very young. How can the educational investments be divided usefully between the old and the young? By showing examples of Scandinavian countries, the author elucidates a double strategy of high educational investments for the phase of youth and in adult life. The countries have su…
Alfred Töpper, Mitarbeiter der Stiftung Warentest, referierte anlässlich der Fachtagung und Plenarsitzung der Konzertierten Aktion Weiterbildung (KAW) „Qualitätsentwicklung in der Weiterbildung – politischer Handlungsbedarf" (25./26. Juni 2001) zum Thema Teilnehmerschutz/Anbieterqualität. Sein Vortrag befasste sich mit den Dimensionen beruflicher Weiterbildung vor dem Hintergrund zweier Entwicklungen: die zunehmende individuelle Notwendigkeit lebenslangen Lernens und die Schwierigkeit, institut…
