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This article, which emanates from the KLASSIC project funded by the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research, explores whether the conveyance of metacognitive techniques effectively boost confidence in one’s own learning effort, thus helping escape the vicious cycle of expectations of failure and failure itself (in this case: older adults in everyday settings void of problems). The empirical study shows that tools such as self-surveys, paired problem-solving, learning diaries or portf…
This article sheds light on cooperation between different educational fields as seen from the point of view of experts in education. The authors present the initial findings from the group discussions of a DFG project which started recently. These findings cast doubt on whether cooperation can succeed when different occupational groups know so little about one another within and outside their educational sectors. It remains to be seen whether future data expected from the project confirms the c…
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.
Das REPORT-Jubiläumsheft fasst Erfahrungen, Ergebnisse und Methoden aus der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung bildungspolitischer Programme zusammen und ermöglicht so eine Einschätzung des möglichen Ertrages solcher Begleitung wie auch ihrer zum Teil prekären Positionierung im Schnittfeld unterschiedlicher Interessen.
The article presents the results of a DFG project on program planning of workplace learning, which was conducted between June 2013 and May 2015 at the Department of Adult Education/Continuing Education at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The central questions were: a) How do internal and external stakeholders influence the program planning and training design in the context of workplace learning (targeted audiences, objectives, contents, didactic fields of action)? b) Which specific forms of …
Sammelband mit Beiträgen von Behringer/Käpplinger/Moraal/Schönfeld
The results from the PISA study and the future of adult education The results of the PISA study have made it clear how urgent the individual as well as the society as a whole depends on a secure system for after school learning and a secure system for lifelong learning. In the contribution perspectives of the development of the qualification demand on behalf of the employment system are scetched with a view to globalization tendencies. In front of this background it is necessary to filter th…
