Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
The focus of this article is on the necessity of competences and qualifications in the lower job segment of the labour market and the applicability of educational programs to acquire these and encourage people with low skills to participate in lifelong learning. Various requirement profiles of literacy in the work context are described. The importance of operational multipliers used in job-related basic education is pointed out. Exemplary methods, used in GRAWiRa in order to concretize basic ed…
Working at companies in old age – problem or opportunity? Company strategies for dealing with demographic change Demographic change usually confronts companies with a double challenge. Enterprises have to work with ageing staffs, while a veritable “war for talent” is underway to attract young skilled staff. This article explores the different strategies German enterprises are adopting to meet this challenge. At the same time, it distinguishes between tried-and-proven staff strategies whic…
People constitute learning places themselves when a relational room perspective is the starting point of their action. Room in the learning place company can be relationally structured by further education processes. Spacings, syntheses and the consequently following dynamisation of learning places open up possibilities which contribute to a reinforced exchange of experiences. Participants of further education positively evaluate this exchange of experiences because it takes place near the wor…
Dieses Thesenpapier entstand in Anlehnung an einen umfangreicheren Artikel mit gleichlautendem Titel. Es fokussiert 9 Thesen für die zukünftigen Entwicklung sogenannter „Lernender Unternehmen“, die der Autor auf der Grundlage einer Studie der DEKRA Akademie entwickelt.
Das Potenzial von OER in der Bildung ist – vor allem in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung – noch nicht ausgeschöpft. Das liege auch an bestehenden Unsicherheiten und Herausforderungen für rechtssicheres Handeln, legt die Autorin dar – und zeigt auf, wie diese überwunden werden können.
