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Current Aspects of Professional Qualification Consultancy for Companies Professional counselling has to pick up the thread of the real-life in-house training in order to provide companies with efficient counselling services. A first step would be to make companies sensitive to the identification of a call for action to help them to renovate their learning culture. Thus, they need a repertoire of innovations which is based on a cooperative approach and the application of company expertise to …
A new profession for trainers of vocational education »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)« The contribution reports on the context, concept and perspectives of a pilot further education for »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)«, which is currently being tested in Bavaria. It ensures especially the pedagogical qualification of the trainers which is urgently required today and it supports t…
Die Diskussion um die Beschäftigungs- und Bildungsprobleme Geringqualifizierter ist durch drei Interpretationsmuster gekennzeichnet: 1. Geringqualifizierte haben ein Motivationsproblem. 2. Geringqualifizierte haben nur unzureichende Lernkompetenzen (und sind in der Folge nicht beschäftigungsfähig). 3. Es gibt zu wenig Arbeitsstellen für Geringqualifizierte – eine Investition in Bildung ist nutzlos. Gerhard Reutter, der sich in seinen Ausführungen v. a. auf die Studien von Baethge/Baethge-Kinsky…
Competence or authorization? PISA – a challenge also for adult education and research PISA also provokes adult education and adult pedagogy to a new evaluation of the prerequisites of participation in adult education and the meaning of “making up for” by means of adult education, of a heterogenous programme which has received less attention since the reform of education. Therefore this contribution scetches the state of the art of the compensatory education for adults (basic education, scho…
Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
The results from the PISA study and the future of adult education The results of the PISA study have made it clear how urgent the individual as well as the society as a whole depends on a secure system for after school learning and a secure system for lifelong learning. In the contribution perspectives of the development of the qualification demand on behalf of the employment system are scetched with a view to globalization tendencies. In front of this background it is necessary to filter th…
