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Ungeachtet ihrer großen Bedeutung für Praxis und Forschung der Erwachsenenbildung - Bund, Länder und zunehmend auch die Europäische Union bestimmen maßgeblich den Kurs - ist Weiterbildungspolitik kaum ein Thema in der erwachsenenpädagogischen Literatur. Diesem Defizit will das Buch entgegentreten, das ausgehend von einer Momentaufnahme aktueller Positionen zur Weiterbildungspolitik eine historische Analyse der Entwicklungen von der Nachkriegszeit bis heute anbietet. Die weiterbildungspolitische…
From 1992 to 2007 a considerable amount of German and EU funding was put into development projects described as “Qualification Development Management” (German acronym: QUEM) and aimed to support the quality of vocational qualification structures in the former GDR. QUEM was sponsored by the ABWF (Study Group for Corporate Continuing Education Research). In this article the author, a scientist working on QUEM, sums up the activities in the programmes and projects which were funded. He identifies …
Education or competence – a pseudo alternative? It is a platitude that the structural change of society also leads to structural problems of further education. Therefore this is discusses intensively for some time past and the practical transpositions are gross. The impression of the authors is that it is argued, latently or explicitly, dichothomic even though that in fact is not necessary. In this contribution the authors want to expand on two such contradiction theorems with the intention …
Die Gruppe der Langzeitarbeitslosen bleibt relativ groß - selbst in Zeiten zurückgehender Arbeitslosigkeit - und stellt eine Herausforderung für die berufliche Weiterbildung dar. Bisherige Konzepte der fachlich - funktionalen Qualifizierung haben sich als unzureichend erwiesen. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen didaktisch-methodische Modelle, praxiserprobte Methoden und Instrumente für die Arbeit mit Langzeitarbeitslosen, die neue Impulse und neue Orientierungen für die Weiterbildungsarbeit verm…
Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
Was die sozial-ökologische Transformation für die Erwachsenenbildung bedeuten kann, erörtert der Autor anhand der Beobachtung eines Bildungsprojekts. Er nimmt dabei eine Transformation des Bildungsprozesses wahr, aber auch der Bildungseinrichtung, der Bildungsakteure und der Teilnehmenden selbst. Diese Veränderungen setzt er in Beziehung zu Aspekten transformativen Lernens.
Demographic change renders basic skills important at an increasingly older age. Among them, skills in financial matters are becoming increasingly rele- vant. The skills measured in PIAAC and CiLL represent comprehensive cognitive abilities which can be seen as the basis for successful participation in social and economic life. Based on a secondary analysis, this paper shows that financial prac- tices remain for older people, although their numeracy skills proficiency lower than those of younger…
The development of modern societies depends on a wide variety of an individual’s social commitment beyond gainful employment that can be subsumed under the term “volunteering”. Analysing empirical interviews, this article outlines the range and the transition of subjective educational biographic meanings of volunteering from the perspective of the volunteers. Thereby the appropriateness of qualitative longitudinal studies for specific research-purposes of long-term educational biographic change…
