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We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
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The project GRETA – basics for a standardized process for recognizing teachers’ and trainers’ competences in adult and continuing education – developed an interdisciplinary structural competence model encompassing all tasks for teachers and trainers in adult and continuing education. It is the basis for developing procedures for recognizing and certifying relevant competences for teaching and training in adult and continuing education. So far GRETA will develop a concept for validation procedur…
Web-basierte Lerninstrumente bieten die Möglichkeit, Validierung von Kompetenzen mit geringerem Ressourceneinsatz durchzuführen, und erleichtern das Nachweis- und Zertifikatsmanagement. Ein solches web-basiertes Lerninstrument für Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbildung wird im Projekt EULE („Entwicklung einer web-basierten Lernumgebung für Weiterbildung, Kompetenzerwerb und Professionalisierung von Lehrenden in der Erwachsenenbildung“) entwickelt. Über 25 Lernfelder, für die Lern- und Validierungsa…
Die Validierung von non-formal und informell erworbener Kompetenzen wird zur Zeit breit diskutiert, zumeist aber unter dem Blickwinkel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Die Autorin plädiert dafür, Validierung auch zu einem Thema der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung zu machen. Denn: Im Sinne einer Chancenermöglichung kann Validierung dazu beitragen, Teilhabe zu ermöglichen – ein erklärtes Ziel der Erwachsenenbildung.
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
Successful communication – i.e. reaching an understanding between speaker and listener – depends on the content and its format, the personality of the speaker, but also on the form and presentation of the content. Especially in situations of learning and teaching, the voice of the speaker plays an important role in the presentation of the content of teaching and learning. Some ways of speaking may render unwanted effects and may be seen as distracting. It is important to note, however, that all…
Political Education has a long tradition in Austrian adult education. In the period of the Second Republic, ist is cinsidered marginalized. A closer look puts this assumption into perspective. Political education is widely party-centered and present in large-scale organizations such as the Federation of Trade Unions. There is a wide and confusing institutional landscape. With a few exeptions, political education is marginalized within traditional adult education such as the peoples universities…
