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The field of education policy, in particular adult education policy, is gaining importance in recent international-comparative research on education and adult education. In comparative politics, education policy is also a young but increasingly established issue. The close connection of education policy to the discipline of comparative politics, as well as theories used in that discipline, provide a well-founded research approach on education policy, which should be considered by international-…
The DIE publishes recent research findings from empirical studies on the continuing education system and its educational institutions under the label "DIE Survey. Data and reports on continuing education". The publications are directed at stakeholders in education policy, practical continuing education, as well as national and international research. The volumes are published in loose sequence and provide transparency in the complex field of continuing education. Thus they provide an academical…
Adult education is a field that is strongly shaped by tensions between scientific and political demands. The development of competencies as well as the idea of continuing to learn throughout the whole life are topics that have been debated in science and policy for many years and are still of great importance today. This dissertation deals with the relationship between science and European education policy in adult education by analyzing scientific journal articles and political documents from …
Education and occupation The categories of occupation and education were considered to constitute a contradiction in classic educational theory. A paradigm change is taking place through current societal modernisation processes: occupation and education are especially characterised by mutual interaction. This issue of the REPORT examines the tension-fraught relationship between occupation and education in articles offering theoretical and empirical insight, focusing on four focal points: the …
The DIE Journal on Adult Education (DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung) was renamed "weiter bilden" in 2018. The quarterly DIE Journal focuses on a specific topic to inform about current developments in adult education. It is mostly directed at full-time employees and planners in continuing education as well as authorities in education policy and administration. It is scientifically sound as well as practice oriented - magazine as well as reflection instrument.
The 4th sector of education is dominated and directed by market economical criteria while government organized adult education and lifelong learning systems for active labour market policy only have an additional function. The author discusses alternatives by intervention of education policy and isolates three types of financing systems in countries of the European Union: the market regime, the bureaucratical regime, and the mixed regime. Generally he realizes a trend towards a growing relevanc…
Diese Ausgabe des REPORT hat die politische Diskussion um Weiterbildung in den Bundesländern zum Thema. Die Aufsätze referieren und kommentieren aktuelle Entwicklungen und Realisierungsbedingungen von Weiterbildung in den einzelnen Bundesländern.
Bildung und Beratung sind seit der Aufklärung dadurch bestimmt, dass sie die Selbstbestimmung des Individuums unterstützen sollen. Dies ist eine Leitidee des pädagogischen Denkens – beginnend bei Immanuel Kants Definition der Aufklärung als „Ausgang aus der selbstver-schuldeten Unmündigkeit“ (1784) bis hin zum Ziel des nationalen Bildungsberichts, dass „Selbst-regulation“ unterstützt werden soll (Konsortium Bildungsberichterstattung 2005). Diese Leitidee findet sich in Beratungsansätzen wiede…
