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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…
With this Portrait Adult Education the DIE presents an updated edition of its previous Country Reports. It contains an outline of the history of adult education in Germany, provides information on its legal basis and funding structures and supplies recent statistical data on adult education offers, institutions and staff. Portrait Adult Education offers researchers, students and practitioners dense and clear information on the current system as well as on future trends and prospects of German a…
This third edition of the DIE Portrait Continuing Education in Germany has been extensively revised to include up-to-date figures on such key areas of continuing education as numbers of courses offered, participants, institutions and staff employed. The volume also outlines the history of German adult education and provides information on its basis in law and funding matters. Educational researchers, planners, administrators and practitioners, will thus obtain a thorough insight into the conti…
The paper reviews trends in adult learning in England in the ten years from the election of Labour government in 1997. It highlighted an initial focus on expanding and widening participation in a wide range of initiatives in the years to 2002. From 2003 there has been a dramatic narrowing of focus giving priority to funding qualifications related to the labour market. Throughout the period it highlights restless change in institutional structures.
The "Red Series" provides quick access and initial orientation regarding the characteristics and features of continuing education in the individual countries. The volumes combine country-specific data and information on a scientific basis. A comprehensive service section facilitates further enquiries. On this base, continuing educators from research, practice and administration are able to prepare coopertion activities.
In consideration of the omnipresent commitment to the significance of lifelong learning, the article analyses the role of continuing education within public education funding. Over the past 20 years, public continuing education funding has been reduced by 41 %. The low participation rate in continuing education, particularly among the less qualified and atypically employed, encourage an increase in public investments. Funds should enhance staff counselling, qualification and professionalism as …
Internationalität gewinnt für den Weiterbildungsbereich zunehmend an Bedeutung, doch ist ihr konkrete Mehrwert ("Added Value") für die erwachsenenpädagogische Praxis eine bislang schwer zu definierende Größe. Dieser Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Evaluation von rund 100 internationalen Kooperationsprojekten, die im Rahmen des EU-Programmes SOKRATES gefördert wurden. Zahlreiche Beispiele zeigen die derzeit bestehenden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen europäischer Kooperation auf, schlußfolgernd …
The Financing of vocational adult education has changed a lot over the last decade. Demand-led funding instruments were introduced at federal as well as state level, aiming to support various (target) groups. The paper reviews, whether these funding instruments addressed special gaps in the funding system and tries to provide first and preliminary impressions whether and to what extent these instruments might have contributed to increasing participation rates in Germany. The analysis suggests t…
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…
This overview in table form of the adult education centres survey for 2021 presents key findings pertaining to institutional characteristics, personnel, funding and events.
