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In dem Beitrag wird die wissenschaftliche Begleitung des Programms Lernende Regionen - Förderung von Netzwerken vorgestellt. Das Programm, das zur Regionalisierung von Bildung dient, fördert bundesweit 82 Netzwerke und wird vom BMBF und den europäischen Sozialfonds finanziell unterstützt. Die wissenschaftliche Begleitung durch ein Konsortium umfasst drei Bereiche. Zwei davon sind mit einem Evaluationsauftrag - z.B. Nachhaltigkeit überprüfen - verbunden, der dritte Aufgabenbereich besteht d…
This paper deals with a new approach in the promotion of literacy, which focuses on social integration. This approach has been inspired by a concept of adult education aiming at integration and by social work oriented to the life world of the addressees. These concepts are being adapted to the work with functionally illiterate persons. The approach discussed here includes different forms of action promoting literacy: both learning and consulting, and also institutional cooperation in networks. …
Quality testing and organisational development The project QUEST (developing quality, controlling, testing) It is reported of the model, implementation and results of a project for quality testing (QUEST). It collected the concepts, approaches and experiences – in terms of quality assurance - at several folk high schools and prepared the implementation of the model test of Bund-Laender-Commission (BLK) on learner orientated quality assurance in further education networks.
In diesem Band liegen die Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des bekannten BMBF-Programms vor. Als dessen Halbzeitbilanz werden anhand von acht Untersuchungsfeldern innovative Ansätze und strukturelle Schwächen identifiziert: (1) Netzwerkbildung und -struktur, (2) Übergänge, (3) Information und Beratung, (4) Qualitätsmanagement, (5) Neue Lernkulturen, (6) Beteiligung und Marketing, (7) Beschäftigungsfähigkeit sowie (8) Transfer. Damit liegt erstmalig eine bundesweite empirische Unters…
In the form of a review, the author outlines the history of how cooperation has been achieved and imposed in the field of continuing education. He distinguishes between cooperation as an intervention and as an exchange, and between proclamatory, hierarchical and participative cooperation. The structure of the network is presented as way to boost cooperation, and is studied to identify risks and key success factors.
Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
