Paid Educational Leave in Europe - A Recommendation

Regulations relating to training release (training leave) now exist in eight EU states. Where they exist, insufficient transparency and counselling, resistance in companies and fear for jobs have been ascertained in those eligible. There is frequently a lack of political will to make training release more effective for lifelong learning. In a Socrates project (1998–2000) with partners from Belgium, France, Italy and Germany the question of whether training release can be a strategy for the pr…

Didaktik des Bildungsurlaubs

Bildungsurlaubs-Politik

Das Lernzeitkonto

The "learning time account" links the politics of working hours with professional adult education. As a derivative from the "working hours account" it represents an instrument with which the worked for time demands of the employee is changed into adult education instead of into money. Depending on whether the adult education serves work related or private matters, the resources are made available by the employer or by the employee (time and money). In the discussion of lifelong learning the ins…

Lernen durch Handeln im Spiel

Weiterbildung in Hamburg

Widerstände im Lehr-Lern-Prozeß

Vorbereitende Überlegungen zu einer Theorie sozialökonomischer Erwachsenenbildung

Weiterbildung in Rheinland-Pfalz

Zwischen den Stühlen

Caught between Two Stools. Adult Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities The report analyses connecting factors for the manifestation of an inclusive approach in adult education for people with mental disabilities. It presents existing organisational forms and qualification paths. The core challenge is seen in the development of an inclusive professionalism which combines the expertise and competences existing in both general adult education and help for the disabled. The develop…