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Iller, Carola; Sixt, Carola: Adult education providers as a “steady counterpart” for adult education in small and medium sized companies Results of case studies in companies concerning the needs analysis of small and medium sized companies show that the service offers for adult education should not be restricted to the analysis of the need for adult education. Additionally the companies should be supported when choosing their strategical site and the planning and implementation of reorganisa…
Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über das österreichische Bildungswesen und historische Aspekte der Entwicklung der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung sowie über die aktuelle Situation der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung in Österreich. Es informiert über die rechtlichen Grundlagen, Mechanismen der Steuerung, Institutionen, Qualitätssicherung, Finanzierung, Angebote und Teilnahme sowie über Berufsfeld und Professionalisierung, Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung im tertiären Sektor und die internationale V…
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…
Production and communication in adult- and further education research Since years questions of adult education and further education are worked on by research in Switzerland. Also the universities participate. Based on recherches it is debated, whether this research practice has lead to a creation of a social field which enables the continuity of discourse, the accumulation of knowledge, the formation of functional standards and the chances of acquiring reputation.
Learning and acting - theses from the subject-orientated perspective It is sketched, by means of a few basic language-philosophical deliberations on the understanding and term of the acting subject, that the pre-assumption of a narrow connection of learning and application of the learnt in acting of the participants is not appropriate.
Fachlicher Austausch und Kooperation zwischen österreichischen und deutschen Erwachsenenbildner/inne/n findet in Wissenschaft und Praxis statt. Doch was wissen deutsche Fachkolleg/inn/en über die punktuellen Kontakte hinaus über das Weiterbildungssystem in unserem Nachbarland Österreich? Welche finanziellen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen bestimmen das Handeln? Wie ist die Lage der in der österreichischen Weiterbildung tätigen Fachkräfte? Und welche aktuellen Entwicklungen und Herausforderung…
