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Rahel Varnhagen von Ense (1771-1833) war Begründerin von einem der wichtigsten deutschen Salons. Sie bemühte sich die zeittypischen Beschränkungen weiblicher Bildungsmöglichkeiten zu umgehen und auch die gesellschaftliche Ausgrenzung der Juden zu überwinden. Sie gehörte der Epoche der Romantik an und war Teil der Aufklärung.
The "Red Series" provides quick access and initial orientation regarding the characteristics and features of continuing education in the individual countries. The volumes combine country-specific data and information on a scientific basis. A comprehensive service section facilitates further enquiries. On this base, continuing educators from research, practice and administration are able to prepare coopertion activities.
Competence and education, emotions and virtues The ambivalence of competence in the portfolio experience of volunteers A portfolio setting in which volunteers identify, evaluate and document their competencies acquired through voluntary work is at the same time a location of special experience with education and competence: competencies expected by the labour market and acquired in voluntary work converge with predominating notions of education. This article looks at the antagonisms and int…
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
Auch wenn die Beschäftigung mit dem Thema offene Bildungsmaterialien (OER) in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen hat und die Abkürzung OER inzwischen vielen in der Bildung Tätigen geläufig sein sollte, ist die Bildungslandschaft in Deutschland von einem flächendeckenden Einsatz von OER weit entfernt. Wie ist es um OER in der EB / WB bestellt? Ist die Erstellung und Verwendung von offenen Bildungsmaterialien in der Erwachsenenbildung sinnvoll und wünschenswert – und wie kann sie gelingen? D…
Abstract: The paper describes trends of convergence and divergence in enterprise-provided continuing vocational training in Europe between 1999 and 2005. Based on the survey CVTS, the indicators for courses incidence, access, intensity, direct costs and the indicator learning at the workplace will be analyzed. The paper concludes with an outlook with references to sketches of an educational theory to be written for this field of adult education.
