The rising importance of continuing education in the knowledge-based society is undisputed, but the broad organisational and legal area of continuing education has not been surveyed adequately to date in statistical terms. This article provides an overview of the heterogeneous landscape of providers and explains the existing data situation. Following this, the problems associated with a separation between providers of vocational from general education are discussed. Finally, the current changes…
Within the bounds of constitutional law, the Federal Government has educational-political powers concerning educational contents. These it exercises in manifold programmes and initiatives, among others in the area of further education. Veronika Pahl, head of the competent department in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) gives a summar y of the most important initiatives along with the political considerations that form their background. Quality problems are grouped in categor…
Das Lehrbuch stellt das Lehren und Lernen Erwachsener ins Zentrum der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, das als ein Mehrebenensystem betrachtet wird. Unterschieden werden die Ebene der bildungspolitischen Steuerung, die Ebene der Organisationen, in denen Aufgaben der Leitung, des Managements und der Programm- und Angebotsentwicklung verortet sind, sowie die Ebene der Lehr-, Lern- und Beratungsprozesse. Die Wirkungen der Erwachsenenbildung werden als Ergebnis einer Ko-Konstruktion der Handlungen v…
In federal Germany the political responsibility for educational planning and research subsidies is newly under discussion. The keyword is „decartelization“. Leibniz association’s vice-president pleads for more interlacing instead of decartelization.
So far, time and space have been addressed in separate discourses without considering the connections between the categories. An integrative perspective on the regulation of participation in further education promise social space perspective. Against the background of the demand for the interweaving of discourses of time and space, the paper deals with the question of which temporal relationships can be found in social space regulators of participation in further education. First of all, the ca…
System reflexive evaluation of networks and network programmes A methodological perspective To contextualise and substantiate evaluation is a claim which the evaluation of the programme „Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) formulates. But which basic approaches and proceedings are suitable to consolidate the item `networks` with suitable theoretical complexity and methodologically reflective evaluation? In this contr…
