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The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
Das Curriculum zur „Arbeitsorientierten Grundbildung“ enthält Module zur Förderung der (berufs-)biographischen Gestaltungs- und Steuerungskompetenz und bildet die Grundlage für Kursangebote für Erwerbslose und Beschäftigte, die von Beschäftigungslosigkeit bedroht sind und sich neu orientieren. Das Curriculum ist ein Ergebnis des Projekts „Transferqualifikationen: Berufliche Kompetenzen zur Selbstorganisation und didaktische Modelle zu ihrer Vermittlung“ und ist sowohl aufgrund des anhaltenden w…
Within the federal programme »On-Site Learning«, the General Bureau of Education in Aachen is responsible for the municipal coordination of educational counselling in ten communities. The presented three-pillar model includes the qualification of educational counsellors, training for educational guides for and the compass training guidance as an associated information medium. The concept aims at improving the transparency of publicly accessible educational counselling as well as approaching edu…
Die systematisch zueinander in Beziehung stehende zweibändige Projektpublikation ist um die Neubegründung einer lebensweltbezogenen, nicht aber funktionalistisch verengten Altersbildung bemüht. Die autonome Alltagsbewältigung Älterer zu fördern, reicht unter Bedingungen eines individualisierten Alters nicht mehr aus; sie muß um sozialintegrative Bildungskonzepte und Lernformen ergänzt werden. Während der 1. Band das für die Ansprache von Zielgruppen und für die Programmplanung relevante Grundla…
Intercultural education accepts the “otherness“ in multicultural and multireligious societies. It struggles against discrimination and seeks equality. Migrants and native people are both target groups of intercultural education. The article discusses educational questions in the German context with regard to different nationality, culture, religion and mother tongue. “Intracultural” education is necessary to strengthen personal and social identity; intercultural education can initiate dialogue …
The author prefers the term of »sustainable learning« compared with »education for sustainable development«, because she sees the numerous non-institutionalised learning processes being included. The UN decade is a challenge for a variety of learning places, protagonists and target groups. She confronts the chances for the decade with several social, above all individual barriers, which complicate the learning of sustainability. Besides the value attitudes and emotions above all here the factor…
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…
This report from England is part of a research project entitled Literacy/Basic Education – State of the Art from a historical and systematic Perspective in terms of Transferability. It focuses on the way adult (il)literacy has been approached, dealt with, discussed and analysed both politically and scientifically in England. It provides a historical overview on government strategy papers and outlines central ideas in theoretical discussions regarding literacy and literacy practices. However, in…
