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How can virtual spaces, digital media and its potential be utilised for cultural education programmes? The authors analyse the issue by looking at three good practice examples from adult education centres and point out the contributive effect of a reasonable and elaborate use of digital tools in cultural education for the participants’ digital education.
This study explores the definition of „adult basic education“ from the perspective of public education administration of the German Laender. On the one hand, adult basic education is claimed as a public good that has to be made accessible by public funding. One the other hand, there is still no agreement on the definition of adult basic education. Based on a subject-scientific approach, qualitative interviews are conducted with administrative employees in order to explore dimensions and justifi…
Parent and child programmes are the most frequently offered programmes in family education. The intergenerational experiment of education and lifelong learning has proven its worth in adult and family education and may be regarded as a counter weight to the »expertisation« during the early childhood.
Family education is at the crossroads of adult education and social work. This article outlines the resulting conflict situations as well as the opportunities, which arise as a consequence of the mutual complement of both fields to a compatible system of family work.
Die Textsammlung vermittelt einen biografieorientierten Rückblick auf über 40 Jahre Erwachsenenbildung. Die Beiträge aus den Jahren 1972 bis 2016 beziehen sich auf bildungspolitische und lerntheoretische Aspekte aus Theorie und Praxis. Themen wie Finanzierung, Curriculumentwicklung, Bildungsforschung und Evaluierung werden ebenso behandelt wie Bildung für Migranten, Dropout oder Museumsbildung. Jeder Text spiegelt die persönliche Position des Autors, ermöglicht aber auch einen Blick auf die his…
The project GRETA – basics for a standardized process for recognizing teachers’ and trainers’ competences in adult and continuing education – developed an interdisciplinary structural competence model encompassing all tasks for teachers and trainers in adult and continuing education. It is the basis for developing procedures for recognizing and certifying relevant competences for teaching and training in adult and continuing education. So far GRETA will develop a concept for validation procedur…
Die Validierung von non-formal und informell erworbener Kompetenzen wird zur Zeit breit diskutiert, zumeist aber unter dem Blickwinkel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Die Autorin plädiert dafür, Validierung auch zu einem Thema der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung zu machen. Denn: Im Sinne einer Chancenermöglichung kann Validierung dazu beitragen, Teilhabe zu ermöglichen – ein erklärtes Ziel der Erwachsenenbildung.
Web-basierte Lerninstrumente bieten die Möglichkeit, Validierung von Kompetenzen mit geringerem Ressourceneinsatz durchzuführen, und erleichtern das Nachweis- und Zertifikatsmanagement. Ein solches web-basiertes Lerninstrument für Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbildung wird im Projekt EULE („Entwicklung einer web-basierten Lernumgebung für Weiterbildung, Kompetenzerwerb und Professionalisierung von Lehrenden in der Erwachsenenbildung“) entwickelt. Über 25 Lernfelder, für die Lern- und Validierungsa…
Adult education increasingly occupies the center of education policy and hence the corresponding governance aspirations on the national, supra- and international level. Large-scale-assessment studies, like PIAAC, further raised public attention for adult education with a focus on the low educated. This study analyzes overall and spatial participation in adult education in the national context using multi-level modeling. Using data from the European Labour Force Survey 2013 it shows that (1) the…
