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Using the example of the town of Marl, located on the edge of the Ruhr area, the author points out the significance of the interaction between education and culture for urban development. He also shows which paths a town may take to deal with the structural change.
Diese Ausgabe des REPORT hat die politische Diskussion um Weiterbildung in den Bundesländern zum Thema. Die Aufsätze referieren und kommentieren aktuelle Entwicklungen und Realisierungsbedingungen von Weiterbildung in den einzelnen Bundesländern.
This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early mode…
Sites and trajectories of learning disconnected from schooling and traditional training are discussed against the background of a new scientification of work related to the shift towards an information technological mode of production. This scientification is rooted in a new relation of theory and practice at work. Accordingly, workers play a new strategic role in work processes: they have to optimize procedures, define and search for reasonable objectives, reflect on methods and strategies of …
Bildung ist wieder auf dem Wege zum Megathema zu werden. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für die Weiterbildung, deren Beitrag zur Zukunftsfähigkeit der Gesellschaft allerorten beschworen wird. Im 21. Jahrhundert wird sich (Weiter-) Bildung veränderten sozialen, ökonomischen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen stellen müssen. Um den sich abzeichnenden Umbrüchen im Bildungsbereich begegnen zu können, müssen Weichen gestellt werden für eine zukunftsorientierte Bildungspolitik. Vor diesem Hinte…
Der REPORT vermittelt einen Überblick zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung und Theoriebildung in der Erwachsenenbildung. Jedes Heft behandelt ein Schwerpunktthema und enthält einen umfangreichen Rezensionsteil.
Working at companies in old age – problem or opportunity? Company strategies for dealing with demographic change Demographic change usually confronts companies with a double challenge. Enterprises have to work with ageing staffs, while a veritable “war for talent” is underway to attract young skilled staff. This article explores the different strategies German enterprises are adopting to meet this challenge. At the same time, it distinguishes between tried-and-proven staff strategies whic…
Changes in the managerial staff of (educational) organizations bring about times of transition with multiple challenges. How can members of the staff be prepared to assume leadership positions? How can new personnel be found and attracted to stay? How can the induction period and the effective transfer of knowledge be organized? To successfully meet all these challenges, a forward-looking strategy is needed, which can be used as groundwork for concrete measures regarding managerial changes. Thi…
