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While political education appears to be of secondary importance in the national grants policy, on the European plane it is coming to a new blossoming. The European ministers of education are working towards a joint educational planning programme and are looking for common aims in political education. The pertinent grants programmes are a rich source of for good practice. In cross-section tasks the intertwining of political education and political development manifests itself. Monika…
Political education as a par t of general adult and continuing education with regards to lifelong learning and on the background of social change, is confronted with a new challenge. Science, economics, representatives responsible for education and learning of adults and politics are looking for instruments to navigate the consequences of globalization. – The author focusses – besides social questions of inequality – problems of cultural identity as one of these consequences and identifies lear…
Je kleiner ein Unternehmen, desto geringer fällt die Weiterbildungsquote der Beschäftigten durchschnittlich aus. Weiterbildungsverbünde sind geschaffen worden, um KMU dabei zu unterstützen, Weiterbildungsbedarfe zu identifizieren und geeignete Angebote zu finden. Die Autor*innen berichten anhand von Ergebnissen der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung über förderliche und hinderliche Faktoren in der Errichtung der Verbünde.
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…
Vocational adult education research Data situation, research questions and selected results Likewise the meaning of adult education the number of reseach works with this theme increase. Prerequisite for interpretation and classification of the present results of adult education research is the knowledge of the underlying sources of data and information. The text at hand gives an overview of the data situation in the area of vocational adult education whereas it features also company ques…
Unity, difference, transitions On the way to a meta theory of the communication formats adult education, consultancy and therapy In theoretical substantiations of adult education the reconstruction perspective is too narrow arranged and adult education is forwardly regarded separately from structurally similar intervention forms. Similarities and transitions between adult education, consultancy and therapy are being neglected with negative consequences for the theoretical subject constituti…
Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die finanzielle Förderung der Weiterbildung als organisiertes Lernen seit dem Ende der 1960er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dies beinhaltet die Beschreibung der kommunalen, landesrechtlichen, bundesrechtlichen und der europarechtlichen Förderung der Weiterbildung mit der Angabe der dafür aufgewandten Förderungssummen. Die Beschreibung ist eingebettet in die Darstellung der dominierenden politischen und geltenden rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen von den…
The Need for Comparative Research on the History of Adult Education and its Challenges Research on the history of adult education has been established as a sub-discipline of adult educational science – however, mainly in a national context. Even nowadays comparative research on the history of adult education is still a step-child of research, facing major challenges which are consequently also problems of presentation.
