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Bildungspolitik, insbesondere Weiterbildungspolitik, erlebt in den letzten Jahren national wie international einen neuen Aufschwung. Die Renaissance der Bildungspolitik ist eng verbunden mit einer gesellschaftlichen wie auch ökonomischen Notwendigkeit, die Konkurrenzfähigkeit im globalen Wettbewerb ebenso wie gesellschaftliche Integration und Partizipation umschließt. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Heftes kreisen um die Frage, wo die Schwerpunkte und innovativen Aspekte der (Weiter-)Bildungspoli…
Already Max Scheler developed a functional definition of education. With Scheler, education is not only not opposed to usefulness, but even prerequisite for reaching certain aims at all. In terms of the postmodernist media and mass society the relationship between education and usefulness has to be reformulated. With reference to Lyotard, the author develops a concept of education as a regulative idea. Under these conditions, individuals are not expected to integrate themselves culturally into…
Working biographies today do not last for life. The author describes the concepts of labour entrepreneur as a new type of labour which means that employees put their competence to the market. Characteristics of the labour entrepreneur is responsibilityfor the organisation and the marketing of one’s own competence. As a consequence in adult education didactical and methodical concepts for the interpretation and self-reflection of one’s own biography have to be developed.