In dem Beitrag werden aktuelle Standpunkte und Projekte zur Qualitätstestierung in der Weiterbildung skizziert und diskutiert. Im Anschluss werden bildungspoltische Trends - zunehmende Ökonomisierung der gesamten Weiterbildung - herausgestellt und allgemeine Schlussfolgerungen - die Vernetzung unterschiedlich ausgerichteter qualitätspolitischer Initiativen - gezogen.
In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West) hat sich die Alphabetisierung von Erwachsenen in den letzten 15 bis 20 Jahren zu einer wichtigen Bildungsaufgabe entwickelt. Nach der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands zeigte sich schnell, daß auch das realsozialistische Bildungssystem Analphabetismus nicht verhindern konnte. Der Band enthält die Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Erhebung zum Stand der Alphabetisierung und Elementarbildung sowie Situationsanalysen und Praxisberichte. In einem Resümee werden Han…
This article focuses on continuing education for adults with a migrational background in Germany. Based on recent research findings, the authors call for a differentiated view on adults with a migrational background and point out prospects for research and practice.
From the viewpoint of Akademie Remscheid, a leading provider of further education courses involving education through play, this article presents the facets of the phenomenon of play as relevant to education and illustrates them using several examples of play that can be applied to adult education. The focus is on group games which can be played using simple materials. The central fields of learning targeted by play are identified as social skills, perception, expression, creativity and problem…
The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
The following report focuses on the issue of recording the impact of learning in adult and continuing education. It depicts the complexity of empirical-analytical impact and sensitizes for a differentiated access of adult educational research, based on the demand for evidence-based practice and education policy, which increases the pressure to conduct research on valid data on the impact of educational activities. This is substantiated, inter alia, due to the complex topic and the particulariti…
