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Von Arbeitslosen wird viel erwartet: Sie sollen über berufliches Selbstmanagement, biographische Selbstorganisation sowie die Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zur Selbstverantwortung verfügen. Wie realistisch sind aber solche Anforderungen? Und sind sie ohne institutionelle Hilfestellung zu erfüllen? Diesen Fragen wurde in dem Projekt Transferqualifikationen nachgegangen, das von Oktober 1999 bis September 2002 vom BMBF gefördert und am DIE bearbeitet wurde. Im vorliegenden Abschlussbericht werden di…
Quality in further education is not supposed first and foremost to serve the educational organisation itself (the „within“), but the learners (the organisation’s „without”). The “without” should therefore have a substantial say when quality measures are developed and evaluated. Dr. Ch. Ehses and Prof. Dr. R. Zech of the “ArtSet Institut für kritische Sozialforschung und Bildungsarbeit e.V.” explain why the external view-point – the learners’ perspective – is essential, how it can work and what …
Diese Reihe des DIE stellt Praktikerlnnen der Erwachsenenbildung bewährtes Handlungswissen, innovative Methoden, aktuelle Themen und neue Arbeitsfelder aus Sicht der in der Bildungspraxis Handelnden vor. Die Einzelpublikationen der Reihe gehen dabei nicht systematisch – wie im Studium üblich – von der Struktur des Gegenstandes oder Arbeitsfeldes aus. Vielmehr sind sie aus der Perspektive des Berufsalltags entworfen und zielen darauf ab, eine erste Orientierung, verwendungsbezogenes Wissen un…
„Language, language and nothing but language“ has been the motto of Dutch integration politics since the nineties. The „minority model“ practised before had been put out of use because it emptied the cash boxes and tired out the intrinsic initiative of the minorities. Since 1998, the „Law on the Naturalization of Newcomers“ regulates the educational programme for immigrants, namely, language and general orientation courses, as they are now being introduced in Germany as well. But the Dutch mode…
An essential task for administrative staff in adult education is to develop and offer courses. In the field of economic education (basic education), there exist only very few offers and didactic material. Hence, there is a great demand to describe requirements concerning competencies to be taught in this area. Such requirements for competencies may serve as a base for the development of courses in adult education. This article explores the questions on which requirements concerning competencies…
The paper raises the question of how inclusion, in the sense of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is operationalized in institutional learning settings for adults. It presents findings of a qualitative pilot study. Based on a relational theory of space, the findings elicit a conceptual model of the architecture of inclusion at public places of learning for adults. The model illuminates the way social space is constituted in and by the actions of professionals, and th…