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Eine kontinuierliche Beschäftigung mit einer Fremdsprache ist sinnvoll – und zwar dann, wenn man gerade Zeit hat. Die Bedürfnisse und Interessen der Lernenden sind ebenso unterschiedlich wie ihre individuellen Lernvoraussetzungen (Erfahrung, Lerntyp etc.). Unter diesen Aspekten betrachtet zeigt sich, dass der herkömmliche Sprachunterricht in Form von genormten und an feste Zeiten gebundenen Kursen zu unflexibel ist und zunehmend an seine Grenzen stößt. Hier können Neue Medien Abhilfe schaffen, …
In dem Band sind die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts "Selbstorganisiertes Lernen im Alter" dokumentiert. In qualitativ angelegten Fallstudien untersuchte die Autorin Alteninitiativen im Frankfurter Raum aus system- und handlungstheoretischer Sicht auf die Aspekte Selbstverwirklichung, Selbstbildung und Selbstorganisation. Die Ausgangsfragen der Studien bezogen sich auf die Wissens- und Kommunikationsformen, Wertorientierung und Handlungsrationalitäten, die das Handeln der Akteure in den Alten…
Education Programmes under one Roof. The new EU action Programme for Life-long Learning (p. 34-37). The new EU education programme PLL (Programme for life-long learning) aims at combining the previous programmes SOKRATES II and LEONARDO DA VINCI II under the same roof, and hence extends the previous range of opportunities for financial backing through a cross-section programme which enables cooperation outside the boundaries of education. The article gives an overview about the complete program…
The opening up of higher education and the development of higher education insti-tutions as institutionalized and organized settings for lifelong learning has been focused in educational policy and scientific discourse for more than ten years. Consequently, research at the interface between further education and higher education research at international, European and national levels has been intensified in order to disclose framework conditions, forms and challenges regarding current and expec…
A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
Reshaping the Relationship between Natural Sciences and Society – The implicite Learning in Contemporary Society How much does an average citizen need to know in the field of natural sciences in order to cope with the challenges of contemporary society? This question is being asked from various points of view. We will reconstruct current debates related to this question along three different lines: on the European level, within academia, and by means of a concrete case study. By relating the…
Participation in continuing higher education has various perspectives particularly with regard to lifelong learning. By arrangements in the field of continuing higher education, universities need to react to changing learning and educational biographies as well as to enable prospects in the context of lifelong learning. An important aspect belonging to this is the transfer of knowledge. Based on the definition of influencing factors on transfer of knowledge by von Krogh and Köhne, the system of…
Die Grüne Transformation bringt einen sozialökologischen Strukturwandel mit sich, der alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche betrifft. Wie kann die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung dabei unterstützen, diesen Strukturwandel zu gestalten? In welchen Bereichen ist sie selbst von diesem Strukturwandel betroffen? weiter bilden reflektiert Lösungsansätze aus der Praxis der EB/WB.
From 1992 to 2007 a considerable amount of German and EU funding was put into development projects described as “Qualification Development Management” (German acronym: QUEM) and aimed to support the quality of vocational qualification structures in the former GDR. QUEM was sponsored by the ABWF (Study Group for Corporate Continuing Education Research). In this article the author, a scientist working on QUEM, sums up the activities in the programmes and projects which were funded. He identifies …
