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Marion Seevers ist Leiterin der Referatsgruppe Weiterbildung und außerschulische Berufsbildung beim Senator für Wissenschaft und Bildung in Bremen. Das Gespräch mit ihr und dem stellvertretende Direktor des DIE Klaus Meisel moderiert Dr. Peter Brandt. Marion Seevers sieht eine Mitverantwortung der öffentlichen Hand, wenn es darum geht, Qualität in der Weiterbildung zu sichern, und plädiert für länderübergreifende Qualitätsstandards.
Geht es nach Jens Matthes, brauchen Menschen, die Garten- und Landschaftsbauer werden wollen, nicht mehr unbedingt eine einschlägige Ausbildung oder Berufserfahrung vorzuweisen, wenn sie zur Prüfung zugelassen werden wollen. Es reicht, wenn sie in Nachbarberufen brauchbare Erfahrungen gesammelt haben und eine modularisierte Vorbereitungsmaßnahme durchlaufen. Für DIE stellt er sein Konzept für die Anerkennung von Vorleistungen vor, das von einem Expertenforum im November 2001 zur Erprobung empfo…
Why have we lately seen a renaissance of the concept of „region“ in the social sciences? The author explores changing perspectives on this concept against a background of technical and social development. While the electronic media allow networking as a form of cooperation that is motivated by functional aspects and exceeds regional boundaries, cooperation within the physical boundaries of a region is facilitated by ease of personal contacts, shared facilities and common institutions. Both tend…
Matthias Pfüller outlines the historical development of central and peripheral regions in the former GDR and former West Germany. Both qualities are found to be relatively persistent. Still, there have been successful attempts at bringing centre and periphery closer together, such as the FRG „educational offensive“ in the 1960s and similar efforts in the GDR. Since the 1990s, however, Germany’s inner dissimilarities have not been further reduced, but are rather on the increase. The author dou…
The author outlines European and German activities and initiatives in the European Year of Languages. In order to bring these initiatives to fruition, it will be necessary to establish the usefulness of language knowledge in the minds of all European citizens. The author’s argument in favour of familiarity with more than one foreign language as a culturally enriching experience culminates in the promise that „monolinguality is curable“.
Urbanising processes have built up city regions. The borders of large cities can not be identified any longer. The hinterland has increasingly attracted population and companies. Without control, this kind of settlement development causes financial problems to the large cities as well as environmental and structural problems. Although cities and their hinterland are closely linked and although there are clearly visible problems, there is still an evident lack of visions for developing city regi…
Klaus Luther, Diplom-Volkswirt, ist Leiter der Unterabteilung „Allgemeine Bildung, Lebenslanges Lernen“ im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. Zuvor war er Assistent am Institut für Regionalforschung an der Universität Kiel, wissenschaftlich koordinierender Sekretär der Enquete-Kommission „Zukünftige Bildungspolitik – Bildung 2000“, Consultant bei der OECD und lange Jahre in der Fraktion der SPD zuständig für Bildungsfragen. Mit Prof. Ekkehard Nuissl spricht Klaus Luther über das Progr…
Online communities have been praised as utopian realms of free, equal and unrestricted communication by some; others have condemned them as anti-social pseudo-communities. Both attitudes, however, focus on the technical framework and do not take the actual quality of the interaction into account. The author describes types of interaction in virtual communities in general, then looks at four types of communities dedicated specifically to learning, and explores their potential.
The author comments on his essay’s title which should refer to a „human being“ rather than to a „migrant“. With examples drawn from literature, theatre and real life he underpins his theory of an increasing malfunction of language as a means of communication. Finally, he reflects on cultural identity and a (German) concept of integration into a target culture.
English is firmly established as a lingua franca, yet in order to preserve cultural variety the mastering of several languages will continue to be indispensable. The author demonstrates in which ways learners profit from knowledge of and comparison between various languages and argues in favour of a common aim of „English plus multilinguality“.
