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A planned offer of further education organisations, orientated by the participant`s needs and interests, implies empirically confirmed data. The situation of data concerning further education behaviour and -interests of migrants in Germany referring to this is however moderate. This is on the one hand due to the definition problem of such constructs as “further education” and “people from migrant background” and adjunct to the difficulties with the operationalisation. On the other hand the data…
Further education is regarded as an investment in the future, in which large parts of the population of Germany participate. However not all groups benefit from this investment in equal measure. The contribution particularly focuses on the further education situation of migrants. A subsequent subscription of the development of pedagogical concepts of deficit- and adaption orientated basic approaches from the early 1970s up to the current stronger resource- and integration orientated offers. The…
Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
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 …
This article discusses the Federal German “Orientation course“ and different prototypes for “naturalisation tests“ in the German Länder in the context of comparative integration policy. Integration courses and naturalisation tests have at the same time become a policy tool for promoting integration in a targeted manner in various countries which attract immigration. Following a presentation of the context and the presentation of instruction material in the orientation courses, the authors inter…
The author certifies the integration courses for immigrants, which were launched at the beginning of this year, a false start. The responsible Federal Agency allegedly operates with delusive numbers of started courses; the approval procedures are supposed to be too lengthy and the implementation for the sponsor of language courses is allegedly unprofitable. This is supposed to apply intensified to the 30 hour long orientation course, where hardly any direct payers can be expected. Especially t…
Natalie Kümpel hat als freie Mitarbeiterin für das DIE Fallbeschreibung aus der ambulanten und stationären Altenpflege dokumentiert. Sie schildert professionelle Situationen, die im Kontext von interkulturellen Weiterbildungsprozessen nutzbar sind und den Fokus auf die Interventionen des Pflegemanagements lenken.
Beatrice Ploch hat als freie Mitarbeiterin für das DIE die Studie "Beschäftigung von MigrantInnen in der Altenpflege" in Frankfurt/M. erstellt. Sie wertet Informationen aus sechs Alten- und Pflegeheimen aus und stellt die Situation von Pflegenden mit Migrationshintergrund, deren Bildungsstand und den Fortbildungsbedarf vor.
Fragen der Interkulturalität bestimmen zunehmend das Berufsfeld Pflege und Gesundheit: Migrant/inn/en verbleiben auch im Alter in Deutschland und nehmen vermehrt Gesundheits- und Pflegedienstleistungen in Anspruch. Zudem ist die Zahl der im Berufsfeld tätigen Pflegekräfte beständig gestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt sich ein neuer Bildungsbedarf, der sowohl in der Erstausbildung als auch in Fortbildungen für das Pflegepersonal künftig stärker zu berücksichtigen ist. Hierzu liefern di…
