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Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised d…
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
A new profession for trainers of vocational education »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)« The contribution reports on the context, concept and perspectives of a pilot further education for »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)«, which is currently being tested in Bavaria. It ensures especially the pedagogical qualification of the trainers which is urgently required today and it supports t…
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 Northrhine-Westphalian labour ministry, in a research project carried out by the Landesinstitut für Qualifikation (State’s Institute for Qualification) in Soest, investigated what possible contribution to immigrant integration might be expected from the State’s institutions of further education. The results, laid down in the study „The contribution of further education twoards the integration of immigrants”, look like a list of shortcomings: insufficient data, an unclear market structure, a…
Wie kann in der Erwachsenenbildung die Unsicherheit der Zukunft und der Umgang damit fassbar und vermittelt werden? Das Konzept der Futures Literacy – übersetzbar als »Zukünftebildung« – bietet hierzu Antworten. Die Autor*innen Angelika Neudecker und Stefan Bergheim beschreiben diese in sechs Teilkompetenzen, die in jedem Menschen als Grundform der Zukünftebildung verankert sind und durch Zukünftelabore gezielt gefördert werden können.
Sprachkompetenz gilt als zentrale Voraussetzung für eine nachhaltige Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt. In einem empirischen Forschungsprojekt wurde die Wirkung regulärer Integrationskurse sowie der im Jahr 2015 von der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) kurzfristig eingeführten Deutsch-Einstiegskurse untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen: Während Teilnehmende der regulären Integrationskurse signifikant häufiger eine Beschäftigung aufnahmen als vergleichbare Nichtteilnehmende, ließ sich für die Deutsch-Ei…
During the last two decades widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evolu…
Lehrkräfte werden in Lehr-Lernsituationen oft mit Ambiguitäten und Ambivalenzen konfrontiert. Unter Rückgriff auf Ergebnisse von Studien zu videofallbasiertem Lernen erläutern der Autor und die Autorin, inwiefern Fortbildungen helfen können, mit ambiguen Situationen im Lehr-Lerngeschehen produktiv umzugehen.
