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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…
The article discusses the chances of using a gerontological data base (Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adulthood, German Acronym: ILSE) for analyses in educational biography research: Learning to age tends to be the central category of this analyses. The article comments on the current debate of aging and education and expounds the problems of politically driven activation of elders and the programmatic turn in the discussion. In a second step the article elaborates on what terms it is …
Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung soll im Kontext des Lebenslangen Lernens an den Hochschulen weiter ausgebaut werden, wobei der Bildung von Verbünden im BLK-Programm „Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung“ hohe Priorität eingeräumt wurde. Die Umfrage ist an einen Teil der Projekte dieses BLK-Programms gerichtet und untersucht die fördernden und hemmenden Faktoren im Prozess der Bildung von Verbünden. Die Befragten stehen dem Verbundgedanken positiv gegenüber. Ein Gewinn wird insbesondere in den Kontak…
The latest number of the Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (»Further Education Report System«) of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research marks a trend reversal: whereas in the last periods under review an increase in the attendance of further education courses was to be observed, currently attendance is regressive by five percent points – particularly in general further education. The author presumes that one reason for this is education’s focussing on the labour market perspective, an atti…
