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A sectoral educational training framework for continuing education can become a uniform reference point for continuing education. Projects such as Flexi-Path, QF2TEACH or the study »Key competences for adult learning professionals« fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a larger strategy. The authors view the advantages of a sectoral educational training framework to be found in the fact that an SCEF-CE is closer to the continuing education system than general educational training framewo…
New service for programme research. The DIE online archive of further education programmes The German Institute for Adult Education (Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung, DIE) has an archive of Volkshochschule programme plans from 1957 to 2004. Now, a new stage of development has commenced, in the form of its online archive of further education programmes: a smaller-scale digitalised continuation which also forms a picture of the structure of the Volkshochschule situation. This article p…
Constructive approaches to the EQF and DQR - Basic and advanced certificate model for further education teachers This article presents a specific qualifications framework for the sector of further education, consisting of a two-stage model (basic and advanced certificates). This touches on the discussion about the EQF and DQR as a motivation and opportunity for the professionalisation of further education. The model takes up examples from Austria and Switzerland and is aligned toward prelimi…
Scientific Education This issue combines empirical and conceptual access points to research of an area of education which has been for the most part neglected by continuing education: What role does natural science knowledge play in the context of informal and non-formal learning processes of adults? And what impetus can be derived for the structure and design of teaching-learning arrangements in other areas? This issue provides insight into specific issues, providing a contribution to inter…
Migrant organisations have developed their own training opportunities for their employees. However, a qualified provision remained difficult. There remain needs of continuing education, e.g. the development of the organisation and its employees. Here the institutions of continuing education are needed.
"Adult education students" as subject of the participation research After a short introduction into the questions and methods of a research project of participation research at the further education Danube University Krems, a partial result for motivation structure is sketched.
In PIAAC werden international Grundkompetenzen von Erwachsenen erhoben. In Deutschland ist die Bevölkerung seit der ersten Erhebung 2012 durch Einwanderung gewachsen und die Alterung der Gesellschaft weiter fortgeschritten. Darüber hinaus hat die Corona-Pandemie Kontakte und damit auch Bildung zeitweise massiv beeinträchtigt. In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, wie sich Lesekompetenzen zwischen sozialen Gruppen in Deutschland unterscheiden und wie sich diese Unterschiede zwischen 2012 und 2023 entwi…
Die Bildung der Zukunft zu verbessern ist erklärtes Ziel des Programms einer »evidenzbasierten Bildungsreform«. Im Hintergrund schwingen dabei indikatorenbasierte Ziele mit, die sich in Beteiligungsquoten an Weiterbildung oder Kompetenzniveaus der Bevölkerung operationalisieren lassen. Voraussetzung solcher Verbesserungen ist, dass das entsprechende Forschungswissen seinen Weg zu Praxis und Politik erfolgreich findet. Aber gelingt das, und wenn ja, wie?
