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Auf Basis seiner Studie zur Wertschöpfung der berufsorientierten Weiterbildung diskutiert der Autor kritisch die Grundlagen und Auswirkungen eines auf Marketing ausgerichteten Weiterbildungsmarkts. Wie kann Bildungswertschöpfung für Lernende und Gesellschaft jenseits der Marktlogik erfasst und aufgewertet werden?
This report provides an overview of the standards between professional and organisational logic for adult education – from the perspective of funding and continuing educational organisations, education policy and research. It also summarises various strategies for improving teaching and training, and identifies outstanding questions. It also points out the role of teaching as a construct, which largely depends on the viewer’s perspective.
Current Aspects of Professional Qualification Consultancy for Companies Professional counselling has to pick up the thread of the real-life in-house training in order to provide companies with efficient counselling services. A first step would be to make companies sensitive to the identification of a call for action to help them to renovate their learning culture. Thus, they need a repertoire of innovations which is based on a cooperative approach and the application of company expertise to …
Main pillars of professionalisation. The “qualification framework for teachers“ and the “core curriculum adult education and continuing education” Here two initiatives are being compared, which want to contribute to the professionalisation of the continuing education area. The “qualification framework for teachers“ is a German derivate of the European Qualifications Framework. It creates a grid in which the manifold qualification possibilities for teachers of the continuing education area can …
Für eine lehrende Tätigkeit in der Weiterbildung gibt es keine allgemein anerkannte Zugangsberechtigung - nicht selten zulasten der Qualität. Das könnte sich bald ändern, sind doch aus der Arbeit des Innovationskreises Weiterbildung heraus die Möglichkeiten überprüft worden, in der heterogenen deutschen Weiterbildungslandschaft zu verbindlichen Kompetenzstandards zu kommen. Hierzu haben das Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung und die Universität Marburg ausländische Vorbilder sondiert, e…
A new profession for trainers of vocational education »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)« The contribution reports on the context, concept and perspectives of a pilot further education for »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)«, which is currently being tested in Bavaria. It ensures especially the pedagogical qualification of the trainers which is urgently required today and it supports t…
Adult and continuing education study programmes prepare students for the broad spectrum of adult educational activities: Teaching is only one adult educational topic among many others: With regard to a theoretical as well as a practical professional perspective, it is advisable to focus on this particular issue.