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Gerade formal gering oder nicht qualifizierte Erwachsene nehmen seltener an Weiterbildung teil. Um die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung in Betrieben, v. a. in KMU, zu erhöhen, ist gezielte Beratung sinnvoll. Hier setzt das Konzept des Weiterbildungsmentoring an, dessen Potenziale und Verstetigungsmöglichkeiten die Autorinnen darlegen.
Kooperieren ist eine elementare Praktik in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, so Matthias Alke im »Stichwort«. Wie diese Praktik in der Digitalisierung Einrichtungen und Verbände herausfordert, diskutieren Mathias Repka, Christof Schulz, Julia von Westerholt und Beatrice Winkler im »Gespräch«, während Jan Koschorreck und Angelika Gundermann zeigen, dass Kooperieren besonders geeignet ist, die Bewältigung der Digitalisierung zu unterstützen. Michael Marquart und Florian Köhler widmen sich mit i…
Die Corona-bedingte Schließung von Einrichtungen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung hat vor allem diejenigen Lehrenden hart getroffen, die freiberuflich Kurse leiten. Am Beispiel der Volkshochschulen zeigt die Autorin, welche Auswirkungen die Pandemie für Solo-Selbständige hatte und wie Einrichtungen und Politik reagiert haben.
In international comparative analyses on further education the clustering of countries is widely established. Frequently, such typologies are derived heuristically, referring to theoretical approaches or single indicators, which make it difficult to obtain a systematic overview. This contribution presents the main arguments of two theoretical approaches (welfare state regimes Esping-Andersen 1990 and varieties of capitalism Hall/Soskice 2001) that refer to indicators on the macro level for expl…
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) reflects upon adult learning from the perspective of a life profile. The article describes the system and methodological approach of the NEPS with a special focus on the group of adults. The education and employment history as well as the consequent competence development of the adult working age population is analyzed. Overall, 60,000 people are surveyed in the NEPS including more than 11,000 adults. First data is already available to the expert publ…
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…
More popular than its reputation Learning success controls in adult education The research project called “LeKo“ of the European Federation for Catholic Adult Education (KBE), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has analysed how learning success controls can be included in all areas of adult education and it has analysed which attitudes participants have towards it. The first empirical results are presented here. Thereafter the pedagogical-instrumental value is …
Research activities in adult education are currently only partially visible and dispersed across numerous data sources. This report examines existing information resources and identifies limitations in terms of completeness, accessibility and technical interoperability. To improve the long-term visibility of research and provide a reliable basis for research on the discipline itself, existing infrastructures should be more closely interconnected, persistent identifiers such as ORCID systematica…
