Schrader, Josef: Struktur und Wandel der Weiterbildung. 2011

Kastner, Monika: Vitale Teilhabe. Bildungsbenachteiligte Erwachsene und das Potenzial von Basisbildung. 2011

Schwarz, Martin P.; Dewe, Bernd: Beraten als professionelle Handlung und pädagogisches Phänomen. 2011

Guimarães, Paula; Lima, Licínio C.: European Strategies of Lifelong Learning. 2011

Guimarães, Paula; Lima, Licínio C.: European Strategies of Lifelong Learning. 2011

Schriftschwäche als Handicap

Recent empirical data show that 7.5 million adults in Germany do not reach a minimum level of reading and writing skills and, therefore, are classified as functional illiterates. However, the social and educational background of this part of the population differs considerably from wide-spread perceptions of the target group as it is represented in courses for illiterates in adult education. While the latter normally showed heavy learning problems at school, the wider group normally passed scho…

Qualitätsmanagement als Steuerungsinstrument im Weiterbildungsbereich

In adult education as an almost deregulated educational sector, governance happens indirectly via support programs and educational initiatives. Money plays a central role as a medium of governance and is also used to promote quality management systems. Quality management itself unrolls a governing capacity in the adult education system: in doing so, different models stress different starting points for quality development. This paper responds to the question which factors influence the developm…

Weiterbildungssteuerung auf kommunaler Ebene

Contemporary discourses in the context of educational governance mostly ignore the field of adult education. Discussions focus on global or national level, the significance of municipalities in managing education systems is widely overseen. This paper picks up the concept of governance to identify the structure and processes of managing adult education on municipality level. On the basis of two model examples the practical implementation of adult education governance will be illustrated, which …

Guimarães, Paula; Lima, Licínio C. European Strategies of Lifelong Learning. 2011

Weiterbildung in der postedukativen Gesellschaft?

This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…