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Diese Ausgabe der DIE Zeitschrift thematisiert Veränderungen der Funktion von Weiterbildung für die Erwachsenenbildung und damit veränderte Anforderungen an die Kursleitenden. Kompakte Lernorganisationsformen und die Vernetzung von Lernorten und Akteuren auf dem Weiterbildungsmarkt gewinnen an Bedeutung, immer mehr unterschiedliche Lernanforderungen werden in Lernarrangements integriert. Dabei erhält die Vermittlungskompetenz des Kursleitenden gegnüber der Fachkompetenz einen höheren Stellenwer…
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…
Anerkennung und Validierung von bestehenden Kompetenzen sowie die Qualifizierung und Weiterentwicklung von berufsrelevanten Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten sind bei der Bewältigung des Fachkräftemangels von großer Bedeutung. Die Autorin lotet die zentrale Stellung von Weiterbildungen aus und betont, dass die effektive Verzahnung von Beratungs-, Anerkennungs- und Validierungsinfrastrukturen ein wichtiges Mittel in der Fachkräftegewinnung und -sicherung ist.
Learning a language is an indispensable prerequisite for participating in both public and working life. Adult education, also in Germany, is currently facing a great challenge in the area of language teaching: In addition to language teaching for migrants and refugees, a key problem is the alphabetization of German and non-German speaking functional illiterates. This paper looks at the conditions for successful language learning by the adults here in focus in organized teaching and learning set…
Death is a central part of our lives, but coping mechanisms are oftentimes less than constructive. The author shows our problematic handling of death and our fear of death and argues that adult education can help facilitate a more productive way of dealing with death and our mortality.
An Austrian study analysed the situation of staff with a migration history within the field of adult education. This article examines barriers and enabling conditions concerning the access to the profession and asks for the use of potential of migration biographies for activities in adult education – considering the part of professionals as well as institutions.
Particularly, disabled people belong to those being excluded from social participation. From these peoples’ point of view, the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities formulates specific challenges for the system of adult and continuing education. What results from these challenges with regard to the various social and individual functions given to adult education and lifelong learning? Answers from the field of adult education, from the pedagogy for the disabled and from socio…
