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Die gerechte Gestaltung des Bildungssystems wird von Politikern, allen voran Bildungsministerin Schavan, immer wieder als zentrale Herausforderung der Gegenwart verstanden. In diesem Zusammenhang hat das BMBF jüngst gemeldet, dass die öffentlichen Bildungsausgaben 2010 erstmals die 100 Milliarden Euro überstiegen haben. Es ist nur eine der Fragen dieses Heftes, ob die öffentlichen Ausgaben für Weiterbildung mehr Gerechtigkeit schaffen. Wir fragen grundsätzlicher, was Bildungsgerechtigkeit überh…
Mit PIAAC liegen repräsentative Daten zu den Kompetenzen der 16- bis 65-Jährigen vor. Dabei sind die Kompetenzbereiche „Lesekompetenz“, „Mathematische Kompetenz“ sowie „technologiebasiertes Problemlösen“ unabhängig voneinander zu betrachten. In diesem Themenheft sollen einerseits die in PIAAC erhobenen Mediennutzungskompetenzen in die deutsche und internationale Diskussion um Medienkompetenz und media literacy eingebettet werden. Andererseits kann und muss die Problemlösekompetenz Erwachsener a…
First results from the PIAAC survey, which was conducted in 25 countries, will be published in October 2013 by OECD. PIAAC collected information about adult competencies through representative data from a background questionnaire and from assessments of three competence domains. In Germany exists an additional study called "Competencies in Later Life" (CiLL), which is designed for people (aged) between 66 and 80 years. This article presents the context of the study, the process of data collecti…
The term »valorization« has gained a wide distribution by the EU support programme of vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci). The author points to the prospective that the term will soon be able to establish itself in other educational areas. Valorization can be described as a process of dissemination and utilization of project results with the aim of optimizing their value, increasing their impact and integrating them into training systems. A correlatively strategy shall be existent in projec…
How does knowledge come into science of adult education? The research undertaking of the author is sketched, in which an honouring of publications and the time-line of the lasting acknowledgement is to be explored.
Based on considerations of the signaling theory and the reputation approach this study examines whether a relationship between employer-provided continuing vocational training and the success of establishments to recruit external qualified staff, can be demonstrated. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of establishments in Germany carried out in 2011. The results of a multivariate analysis show that establishments with continuing vocational training are more successful in recruiting qua…
