“Validpack” – new tool to validate the skills of adult educators The article describes how, as part of a European project, a validation tool has been developed to validate skills in adult education teaching. Validating adult educators' skills may be one step in the discussion concerning the professionalisation of adult education. There is a description of the aims of the tool, the competence framework it is based on, and the individual steps in the process. So that it can also be of advanta…
Das vorliegende „Wörterbuch Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung“ ist die Neuausgabe des „Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung“ und versammelt das gegenwärtige Wissen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung. Es enthält Stichworte zu den Themenfeldern Didaktik und Methodik, Forschung und Wissenschaft, Geschichte und Entwicklung, Lehren und Lernen, Wissen und Erfahrung, Organisation und Profession, Politik und Recht sowie Theorien und Konzepte. Mehr als 300 alphabetisch geordnete Stichworte wurden von ausgewiese…
Dieses Wörterbuch bündelt das gegenwärtige Wissen über Erwachsenenbildung. Es enthält Stichworte zu den Themenfeldern Didaktik und Methodik, Forschung und Wissenschaft, Geschichte und Entwicklung, Lernen und Erfahrung, Organisation und Profession, Politik und Recht sowie Theorien und Konzepte. Die über 300 alphabetisch geordneten Stichworte wurden jeweils von ausgewiesenen Autoren nach dem neuesten Stand der Diskussion verfasst. Das Wörterbuch Erwachsenenbildung richtet sich an Studierende, Na…
It is controversial whether vocational basic and continuing education is substitutable or complementary. This report approaches the issue from an entrepreneurial perspective with a special focus on company sizes and provides empirical results on the basis of the IAB-Betriebspanel (representative employer survey). The valuations of a bivariate probit model also indicate the dependency of complementary and substitutional correlations on the individual company size.
Organisation and growth of the continuing training market is increasingly taking place within the private economic sector. There also is increasing reporting coverage of continuing training in accordance with the significance of lifelong learning for societal participation and the retention of occupational competences. In order to enable an accurate picture of the situation and developments of providers of general and vocational education and training to be given, it would be useful to have a k…
Pioneers from the Islands - National Qualifications Framework in England, Scotland and Ireland This article looks into the genesis and structure of the qualifications frameworks in England, Scotland and Ireland, compares them and concludes with notes to be taken into account for developments in Germany. The qualifications frameworks described, which are considered the forerunners of the EQF, have improved connections between the educational sectors. Their recognised benefit is the transpare…
Vocational continuing education by gainfully employed persons – the explanatory power of activity-related features for continuing education behaviour Socio-demographic, company and employment data is often used to explain continuing education behaviour of individuals. Even though continuing education needs arise directly in the job context, job-related aspects are less frequently taken into account – not least due to the availability of data. This has been made possible, however, by a repres…
The area of further teacher education is rarely explored in the German-speaking countries. The few existing studies primarily show one problem: The transfer of contents of further teacher education into lessons seems to be very difficult (transfer problem). Based on these findings, this research project deals with the question how effective vocational schools in the Canton of Zurich organise and implement their school-intern further teacher education. For this purpose the teaching staff of six …
Who are the key players in the field of adult economic literacy? How can continuing education programmes be characterised e.g. from a thematic and content-related perspective? Based on findings gained in a survey on the current programme situation conducted by the DIE, the article provides an overview of the German landscape.
The increasing functional illiteratism among young adults is the background for the project „Gilgamesch“ – a cooperation of the university and the adult education centre in Munich. The learners are organized in small groups, the emphasis of the courses is on verbal improvement, cognitive ordering and handling of knowledge and on the development of individual strategies to overcome writing problems. The project’s theoretical and practical results will be transmitted to various institutions deali…
