The article deals with the importance of decision-making processes referring to professional practices in career counseling and continuing counseling. Based on an empirical analysis of specific details the process of counseling is being illustrated. Parts of this analysis are the counseling interviews that were selected and provided by the consultant him- or herself. Therefore the counseling interviews represent the common practice of the counseling process. The analysis was conducted as an ana…
In the search for strategies to combat skills shortages, employees with simple tasks have often not been focused on. However, making up about 20?% of all employees, this group of workers represents an important qualification potential. It is the purpose of our paper to investigate the question whether expected or existing difficulties in filling vacancies for skilled personnel increase the training activities of firms towards employees in low-skilled jobs. Our analyses show that expected skills…
Using the crisis-ridden Afghanistan as an example the authors show the importance of adult und continuing education for the positive development of a conflict region. By strengthening the employability of young people in transition from school to university or professional life it helps preventing frustration, aggression and violence – and thus also the emergence of new conflicts.
Gutscheine als Instrument der Nachfrageförderung haben in der Weiterbildung seit rund einer Dekade deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Gleichzeitig sind sie umstritten. Was sind empirisch zu beobachtende Effekte von Weiterbildungsgutscheinen? Sind Gutscheine, wie im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag in Bezug auf die Bildungsprämie formuliert, „erfolgreiche“ Anreize zur Stimulierung der Weiterbildungsteilnahme und auf welcher Basis kann man das einschätzen? Unter anderem mit diesen Fragen hat sich die kür…
Die Publikation beinhaltet Ergebnisse von zwei Analysen, die im Frühjahr 2013 am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung im Auftrag des Kultusministeriums des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt durchgeführt wurden. Bezugspunkt ist das Gesetz zur Förderung der Erwachsenenbildung im Lande Sachsen-Anhalt (EBG) und die auf dieser Basis geförderte Weiterbildung der nach EBG anerkannten Einrichtungen. Im Einzelnen handelt es sich um - eine Auswertung der vom Land erhobenen Daten der EBG-geförderten Einrichtu…
The article illustrates a heuristic model that describes the multidimensional interdisciplinary social phenomena of functional illiteracy in a clearly arranged way. To implement professional literacy programmes that match the different target groups, scientific findings about educational deprivation, life circumstances and barriers to equal participation in connection with low literacy skills are to be arranged in a proper order. One result of the research project “HABIL” is the development of …
In this article, the reactor disaster in Fukushima (March 2011) together with the changes in energy policy following in its wake are used to enquire about reactions in the fields of natural science and technical didactics. The empirical finding is that didactical discourse has been little affected by Fukushima. The reason for this, in the view of the author, is to be found in the theoretical problems associated with specialised didactics, in this case didactics involving technology, as well as …
