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This contribution deals with the definition of adult basic education and its entanglement with interests and power relations in the field of public education administration of the German Laender. As the New Literacy Studies view literacy as a social practice that is related to interests and power relations, guided interviews concerning the definition of adult basic education as well as legitimising rationales from the perspective of education administration were illustrated. The interviews are …
The article focusses on the importance of time for the political adult education. Current socio-cultural and socio-economic challenges – in particular: the commodification and acceleration in the context of education and learning – results in a wide range of pressing time issues. However the adult education und the political education pay little attention to the importance of time. For this reason, this issue will be deepened in the article. First, the situation of the political adult education…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
This article sums up development cooperation in adult education, providing information about the fields in which this cooperation takes place, which funds it uses and which professionals are involved. When it comes to the question of how German adult education exports have affected transitional countries, the spotlight is on evaluation. The authors ascertain that evaluation work has reached different stages in different educational fields. In the sector of vocational education cooperation the f…
Hanft, Anke; Zentner, Tim: Qualification and personnel development – a competence gap in adult education institutions? Results of an empirical study on qualification of staff in adult education institutions The contribution analyses how adult education institutions and universities prepare their staff with education and training for changed structural requirements and reforms. In the centre are two studies of German state universities and public adult education institutions in the country N…
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
Die Bedeutung von Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung in nationalen wie internationalen Bildungsdebatten ist unbestritten. Die in Deutschland angelaufenen Projekte werden im Jahr 2009 erste Arbeitsergebnisse vorstellen können. Die Beiträge dieses Heftes werden vornehmlich einen Beitrag zur Theorieentwicklung leisten und damit Grundlagen für die weitere Forschung auf diesem Gebiet schaffen.
Nach der Veröffentlichung eines Entwurfs für den Deutschen Qualifikationsrahmen (DQR) im November 2010 befindet sich die Diskussion in einer kritischen Phase. Die Weiterbildung findet zunehmend Interesse am Thema und hat Einflussmöglichkeiten erschlossen. Aber ihr bleibt nicht viel Zeit, in der DQR-Diskussion Position zu beziehen. Ihre Optionen im bildungspolitischen Machtspiel müssen offengelegt und reflektiert werden. Hierzu leistet das Heft einen wichtigen Beitrag. Im Rahmen einer Umfrage b…
Federal law as envisaged in the socalled Hartz paper provides for the introduction of education vouchers. Is political education concerned? Against this background, the author explores funding structures of political education on the federal as well as on the Länder plane, of municipalities and foundations. Her verdict is disenchanting: many institutions of political education, especially the very small ones, are facing their end. This is corroborated by two statements of experts from the field…
Welche Neuerungen haben die Weiterbildungsgesetze in Berlin und Nordrhein-Westfalen gebracht? Der Autor, Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Bildung, Forschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung im Deutschen Bundestag und Ehrenvorsitzender des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbands (DVV), vergleicht und analysiert die beiden Gesetze, zeigt aber auch offene Fragen und Desiderate auf.
