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Ahnen Building bridges, supported by further education and continuing education Transitions between education areas from an education political view The contribution analyses from an education political view how the mastery of transitions between education areas can be guided. Hereunto the author, minister of education of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, reminds of measures which were decided on in the course of this state’s presidency of the German Federal Conference of the ministers of edu…
The German Society for Promotion of Research at Old Age (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung im Alter – DGFFA) wants to give an impulse for the intensification of the discussion on those aspects of the demographic change, to which the universities/colleges would need to devote themselves to in due time, if they strive to consolidate their future viability in a society of lifelong learning. The presented suggestions in this contribution are components of a position paper that a wor…
The contribution reports central thoughts of the American psychologist Csikszentmihalyi from the book “FLOW“, and it sharpens the statements on the reality of learners and teachers. “Flow“ stands for the “optimum experience“. Therewith Csikszentmihalyi indicates a feeling of high spirits, of deeply felt joy that lasts long and that occurs when body and soul of a person is strained to limits in the voluntary endeavour to achieve something difficult and something valuable. In this condition, orde…
Dargestellt werden Methoden und Zwischenergebnisse der Evaluation im Rahmen des Projektmanagements der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellversuchs Lebenslanges Lernen.
In Form eines Erfahrungsberichts werden Problemfelder des Programms "Lernende Regionen" ausgehend von Einzelprojekten benannt. Ausser den Problemen in den Einzelprojekten, wie z. B. fehlende langfristige Verankerung; fehlende finanzielle Absicherung; Doppelarbeit, gibt es danach auch Probleme in der Kommunikation zwischen dem Projektträger und den lernenden Regionen.