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Welche individuellen Wirkungen zeitigt Bildungsurlaub? Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass die Teilnehmenden vielfältige Wirkungen mit ihrer Teilnahme an Bildungsurlauben verbinden. Die Autorin, Mitverfasserin der Studie, stellt deren Kernergebnisse vor.
This article describes the attempt to reveal the most suitable methods of learning for learners of the German language without previous knowledge of the Latin alphabet (Literacy DaZ Courses). Seven different methods of learning are compared in four different courses so that each syllabus will be mediated in one course with method A and in another with method B and so on. The method of teaching/learning will be switched with each new syllabus. The article focuses on the critical description of t…
Starting out with deliberations on the relationship between the course of life and the constructed biography of an individual, this article intends to elucidate the contexts of learning as they are treated in various (inter-)national studies, by focusing on the individual’s course of life. To clarify which methodological design is most appropriate to study processes of (lifelong) learning and education, it then seems necessary to highlight a particular methodological approach. This leads, ultim…
Over the past 15 years, a variety of approaches have been developed in (adult) education contexts to validate formal, non-formal and informal competences and thus harness them for lifelong learning purposes. Despite the development, testing and evaluation of appropriate procedures as well as process-accompanying research and procedural clarification processes, a nationwide implementation can not be observed. It can be deduced from these findings that the low degree of implementation of correspo…
Wie kann Lernberatung aussehen und wie können Lehrende sich hierfür qualifizieren? Diesen Fragen geht H. Pätzold in der vorliegenden Untersuchung nach. Zunächst wird in der Auseinandersetzung mit der einschlägigen Debatte in der Erwachsenenpädagogik eine breite Lesart des Lernberatungsbegriffes entwickelt. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit den Zulieferkonzepten für einen erwachsenenpädagogischen Lernbegriff und eine umfassende Darstellung zentraler Beratungskonzepte von der Ind…
From the principle of the regulated occupation to the supremacy of certification: fields of conflict en route to the German qualifications framework (DQR) This article addresses the central difficulties observed in the search for consensus during the current development of a national German qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR). As well as the difficulty in blending in the German national “dual system” of vocational training with the EQF, the main difficulties identi…
Das Thema Beurteilung wird auf dem Hintergrund des komplexen Handlungsfeldes der Modernisierung - ihrer spezifischen paradoxen Dynamiken - mit den Aspekten: Struktur, Kultur, Person und Natur verbunden und an markanten Beispielen kritisch bewertet.