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Ein historischer Längsschnitt über die Bedeutung von Sprachenlernen und den Wandel im Sprachunterricht.
Within the process of socio-political transition adult education is an important tool for Eastern Europeans to orientate themselves in their rapidly changing social environment and to find new professional perspectives. Nevertheless, there are many obstacles blocking the way to the participation of all ethnic groups of the former Soviet Union in adult education courses. The article intends to show that besides various objective reasons, e.g. the disastrous economical situation, there are sever…
The DIE Journal on Adult Education (DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung) was renamed "weiter bilden" in 2018. The quarterly DIE Journal focuses on a specific topic to inform about current developments in adult education. It is mostly directed at full-time employees and planners in continuing education as well as authorities in education policy and administration. It is scientifically sound as well as practice oriented - magazine as well as reflection instrument.
Welche Rolle übernehmen Programmplanende, Fachbereichs- und Einrichtungsleitungen im gegenwärtigen digitalen Wandel der organisierten Weiterbildung? Auf der Basis von Ergebnissen der Evaluationsstudie zu einer Qualifizierungsreihe diskutieren der Autor und die Autorin deren spezifische Funktion und die Bedarfe, die sich für die zukünftige Professionalisierung abzeichnen.
More and more frequently, counselling is given with the help of media, be it as an alternative to or in parallel with face-to-face counselling. The present qualitative study is concerned with these developments in various counselling centres. To this end, research was carried out on psychosocial counselling centres offering counselling on sexuality, debt, drugs and education, and for children, young people and couples. The publication begins with an overview of counselling institutions, media d…
