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The demographic change and the growing demand of skilled workers in Germany puts workers with migration background in the focus of interest in politics, economy, research and, increasingly, of adult education. The following article analyses empirically the relationship between the socio-cultural determinants, which are theoretically embedded in Esser’s model of social integration, and the participation in further vocational education of working adults with a migration background in Germany on t…
Further education is regarded as an investment in the future, in which large parts of the population of Germany participate. However not all groups benefit from this investment in equal measure. The contribution particularly focuses on the further education situation of migrants. A subsequent subscription of the development of pedagogical concepts of deficit- and adaption orientated basic approaches from the early 1970s up to the current stronger resource- and integration orientated offers. The…
„Language, language and nothing but language“ has been the motto of Dutch integration politics since the nineties. The „minority model“ practised before had been put out of use because it emptied the cash boxes and tired out the intrinsic initiative of the minorities. Since 1998, the „Law on the Naturalization of Newcomers“ regulates the educational programme for immigrants, namely, language and general orientation courses, as they are now being introduced in Germany as well. But the Dutch mode…
Weiterbildung ist für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund essentiell. Deshalb existiert im Bereich der Weiterbildung eine Vielzahl an Indikatoren, welche die Leistungen der Migrant/inn/en sichtbar machen sollen. Jedoch, so moniert der Autor, gleicht diese Form des Monitorings eher einer Einbahnstraße, denn nicht nur Migrant/inn/en, sondern die gesamte Gesellschaft muss an der Integration mitwirken. Bislang existieren aber keine geeigneten Indikatoren, um diesen notwendigen gesellschaftlichen Bei…
Wertedebatten sind immer schwierig. Sie stehen traditionell im Verdacht, eine übergeordnete Orientierung des Handelns restaurieren zu wollen, wo Wirklichkeit unübersichtlich geworden ist. Das Heft versucht ohne moralischen Zeigefinger auszukommen und beschreitet hierzu zwei Wege: Es untersucht erstens Prozesse der berufsethischen Vergewisserung der Erwachsenenbildung und ihre kodifizierten Manifestationen, z.B. Leitbilder. Zweitens versucht es ethischen Konflikten in der Erwachsenenpädagogische…
The wide demand for physical education reflects a growing awareness of the value of physical activity in society as a whole. The concepts of comprehensive physical activity applied by institutions of adult education focus on physical coordination, strength, perseverance, stretching and the activation of persons with reduced physical capabilities. Institutions of adult education cooperate with other actors engaged in health promotion such as health insurance organisations. There is much common g…
Das Zuwanderungsgesetz macht eine Restrukturierung und Koordination bestehender Maßnahmen der Migrationssozialarbeit erforderlich. Wolfgang Bosswick trägt hierzu ein ganzes Maßnahmenbündel zusammen, in das Erkenntnisse zweier Gutachten eingeflossen sind, die er für die Zuwanderungskommission und das hessische Sozialministerium erstellt hat. Er empfiehlt eine ständige interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Integration des Bundes und der Länder. Bestehende Segmentierungen sollen aufgehoben, Verfahren v…
The author certifies the integration courses for immigrants, which were launched at the beginning of this year, a false start. The responsible Federal Agency allegedly operates with delusive numbers of started courses; the approval procedures are supposed to be too lengthy and the implementation for the sponsor of language courses is allegedly unprofitable. This is supposed to apply intensified to the 30 hour long orientation course, where hardly any direct payers can be expected. Especially t…
