Wie können Studienergebnisse wie PIAACund LEOdie Praxis der Grundbil¬dungsarbeit unterstützen? Warum hat die PIAAC-Studie im Gegensatz zur LEO-Studie bisher weniger durchdringen können? Und welche Rolle spielen Netzwerkarbeit, Finanzierungsstrukturen und der Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis für die Weiterentwicklung von Grundbildungsangeboten? Hierüber sprach Ewelina Mania (DIE) mit Lisa Göbel, Referentin und Projektmanagerin beim Verband der Volkshochschulen von Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. u.a…
Die Einrichtungen der Erwachsenenbildung können sich mittels Quali-tätsmanagementprozessen weiterentwickeln und im Rahmen solcher Prozesse eine gemeinsame Haltung herausarbeiten. Darüber hinaus stellen Programmangebote zur Politischen Bildung einen zentralen Aspekt dar, wie die Einrichtung authentisch auftreten kann. Der Autor Stephan Kaps reflektiert mit Blick auf die Arbeit in seiner vhs Wege zu einer Haltung.
Die Entwürfe der Weiterbildungsrepublik konzentrieren sich stark auf die berufliche und betriebliche Weiterbildung. Doch auch für die allgemeine und die politische Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung gibt es vielfältige Initiativen und Förderprogramme auf Bundesebene, die zu einer Weiterbildungsrepublik gezählt werden können. Der Autor diskutiert, welchen Beitrag sie zu einer Weiterbildungsrepublik beisteuern, und zeigt Desiderate auf.
The social milieus and the slowed down expansion of education Going out from the fact that the expansion of education in the last decades has not enabled an equality of educational opportunity, the contribution explores the development of the social mileus and their specific educational behaviour on the basis of the theory approach of Bourdieu.
Can continuing university education be "internationalised"? Factors conditioning success and constraints on the export of continuing education programmes from German, Austrian and Swiss schools of higher learning In the context of a general expansion of the university sector through an ongoing differentiation and new regulatory models, the international orientation has become a key differentiating factor and quality aspect. This article shows that possibilities for greater internationalisati…
An Austrian study analysed the situation of staff with a migration history within the field of adult education. This article examines barriers and enabling conditions concerning the access to the profession and asks for the use of potential of migration biographies for activities in adult education – considering the part of professionals as well as institutions.
The article presents the results of the author’s study on the views of pedagogy students on politics and education. The research has been undertaken subsequently to the 2015 parliamentary elections won by the party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc” (“Law and Justice”, PiS). During the election campaign, this party’s program offered radical changes, also in the Polish educational system. The aim of the study was the recognition of the level of interest in politics, the approach to democracy and education…
This article investigates the internationally-comparative question how basic education policy is understood at the national level of policy formulation (policy), and how this basic education policy is – taking into account the institutional rules and responsibilities of the multi-level-system (polity) – implemented by a constellation of actors into national education policy (politics). On the basis of empirical data from the project “EU-Alpha”, the interplay of policy, polity and politics in ba…
Stepped courses of studies and professionalization of adult education Reflections against the background of first experiences at the Ruhr-University Bochum The contribution takes the occasion of the dynamics of reform, with the transposition of the study into two cycles, to show policy-making decisions which need to be made for the study offers in the area of adult education. One important point of reference is the question, as to what extent the reform counteracts the efforts concerning pr…
This article presents the results of an empirical research project in which participants in continuing education and employees were surveyed about their learning times. The survey indicated that (1) continuing education is co-financed on a large scale through the devotion of private time. (2) Individuals show flexibility and commitment in creating their own learning and continuing education times. (3) Times can no longer be clearly assigned to “learning” and “working” even from a subjective poi…
