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Wir haben festgestellt ..., daß es ein schwieriges Unterfangen ist, sich Europa zu nähern. Schon das, was mit Europa gemeint ist, zerfasert bei genauerem Blick: Weder geographisch noch politisch noch kulturell hat Europa klare Grenzen. So stand es im Editorial des Themenheftes Europa und Bildung, das wir vor drei Jahren als Nr. IV/1995 dieser Zeitschrift veröffentlichten. Erst drei Jahre, und nun wieder das gleiche Thema? Welch einfallslose Redaktion! Sogar so einfallslos, diesen beiden Europa-…
Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
This issue of REPORT focuses on current trends in adult and continuing education in various European countries, with a particular emphasis on the situation in Spain, Romania, Finland, Great Britain and Germany. Documenting the results of an international lecture series held at the University of Essen-Duisburg, the essays, for the first time, are presented in English. The articles gathered in this REPORT may serve as a point of departure for further studies in this area of research and contribut…