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The latest number of the Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (»Further Education Report System«) of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research marks a trend reversal: whereas in the last periods under review an increase in the attendance of further education courses was to be observed, currently attendance is regressive by five percent points – particularly in general further education. The author presumes that one reason for this is education’s focussing on the labour market perspective, an atti…
Weichenstellungen von heute werden die Zukunft von morgen mitgestalten. Welchen Beitrag kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten und was werden die Themen sein, die in die Zukunft weisen? Die Beiträge des Heftes beschäftigen sich mit aktuellen Tendenzen: Medienkompetenz (Lehmann, Grube u.a.), Veränderungen in Berufsbiografien (Pongratz), Leben mit Anderen (Hafeneger), Erwachsenengrundbildung (Kamper) und künftige Aufgaben im institutionellen Gefüge von Weiterbildung (Schneider). Alfred Grosser (Par…
Inter-organizational cooperation is understood as a possibility to react on the needs of low skilled adults through the conception of adequate offers. The conception and implementation of new second chance qualification offers that provide a vocational qualification for adults does not only require organizations in the educational system. Also further partners are needed to combine different services across system boundaries that correspond to the educational and to the economic system. The sys…
Continuing education and justice The question as to the connection between education and justice has always been important, even before education was established as a functioning sub-system of society. This applies in a similar manner to the sub-field of “continuing education”. The REPORT examines different approaches to the difficult topic of justice and the required linkage between a discussion based on standards and norms and empirical data (which is too unreliable). The articles especially…
