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Nicht erst heute wird über die Rolle der Erwachsenenbildung mit Blick auf die Versäumnisse im allgemeinbildenden Schulsystem diskutiert. In einer Gesellschaft, in der Bildung zu einer zentralen Ressource geworden ist, erhöhen Schulversäumnisse im Kindes- und Jugendalter das Risiko einer gelungenen sozialen Integration. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat die Debatte um Schulversäumnisse und Schulpflichtverletzungen in den vergangen Jahren in Deutschland einen bemerkenswerten Auftrieb bekommen. In dem …
Traumatisation and national emergency semantics. Continuities in educational policy from Sputnik to the PISA shock The successful launch of the Soviet satellite “Sputnik” in the autumn of 1957 had a lasting impact on u.S. educational policy: expenditures on education and science skyrocketed in order to keep up in the technol-ogy race with the Soviet union. this article explores the conditions in which the launch of a satellite led to a profound shock while at the same time analysing the sema…
During the last two decades, widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evol…
Does law governing continuing education distinguish between general and vocational education? This article examines the question as to whether and in what manner applicable law governing continuing education in Germany distinguishes between general and continuing vocational education. The analysis of the historical line of development shows that this was definitely the case especially during the phase of the so-called “qualification campaign” in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present, on the ot…
This report provides an overview of the standards between professional and organisational logic for adult education – from the perspective of funding and continuing educational organisations, education policy and research. It also summarises various strategies for improving teaching and training, and identifies outstanding questions. It also points out the role of teaching as a construct, which largely depends on the viewer’s perspective.
The rigid division between the three subsystems of continuing vocational training in Germany (continuing vocational training for employees, continuing vocational training for the unemployed, individual continuing vocational training) hinders the implementation of an integrated labour market and qualification policy. As a result an effective and efficient use of the financial means for training (combination of financing resources) is not possible.
The report focuses on empirical data of cultural life from a cultural political perspective. Despite the common experience of growth, a significant increase of cultural life participation cannot be empirically verified with regard to the time budgets applied – at least not of provisions attributed to the narrower definition of culture. There are more visits (especially of large cultural institutions and popular cultural events) but not necessarily more visitors. While the prerequisites for cult…
Ein einheitliches Recht des lebenslangen Lernens gibt es nicht. Aber eine Vielzahl von bildungsbereichspezifischen Rechts- und Verwaltungsvorschriften, von denen einige die Weiterbildung betreffen. Das Heft trägt die neueren Entwicklungen auf Landes-, Bundes- und europäischer Ebene zusammen und bettet die Erkenntnisse zum Recht ein in eine Diskussion um öffentliche und private Pflichten für das lebenslange Lernen.
