Das Leonardo-da-Vinci-Projekt EUREVINQ hat ein Fortbildungskonzept bestehend aus Curriculum und Qualitätsstandards entwickelt, um die Implementierung einer branchenspezifischen Qualifizierung auf dem europäischen Weiterbildungsmarkt zu unterstützen. Qualitätsstandards geben hier Mindeststandards für die Umsetzung unter regional verschiedenen Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen vor. Es wird die Notwendigkeit von Mindeststandards aufgezeigt und die entwickelten Qualitätsstandards – einerseits für …
Considering current large-scale developments, the author takes a look at the supervision of spatial development processes as well as the opportunities and potentials of adult education networks for regional development.
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
Scientific Training and Further Education on Career Guidance in International Comparison Most international experts insist that neutral and efficient career guidance can only be guaranteed by a very high professional proficiency of the counsellors. In recent years qualification offers for trainers have huge differences in both quality and contents of training. The contribution illustrates, on the basis of international studies, the efforts to establish European standards of qualifications fo…
Schäffter, Ortfried: Innovation consultancy in the pedagogy of adult education Institutionalisation of innovation in the organisations of extended vocational training Firstly the contribution shows to which extent an organisational theory on the pedagogy of adult education offers explanatory possiblities for an ongoing innovative structural change. Then the implicit aspect of innovation in concepts of pedagogical organisational is being expatiated and conceptually differentiated. The diffe…
In dem Beitrag wird anhand eines Beispiels - aus dem Projekt: Beratung zu multimedialem Lernen in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen des Berufsfortbildungswerks des DGB Rhein- Neckar-Tauber - illustriert, dass mediengestütztes Lernen Organisationsentwicklung auslösen bzw. Organisationsentwicklungsprozesse beeinflussen kann.
In recent years, the discourse on competences as well as the increasing importance of informal learning particularly at workplaces have attributed a prominent position to the procedures of visualization and balancing of vocational competences within the educational practice as well as in education policy debates.However, most of these procedures focus on apprentices or participants of further education courses. This rather limited view has largely excluded teachers and/or dispositive employees …
Based on considerations of the signaling theory and the reputation approach this study examines whether a relationship between employer-provided continuing vocational training and the success of establishments to recruit external qualified staff, can be demonstrated. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of establishments in Germany carried out in 2011. The results of a multivariate analysis show that establishments with continuing vocational training are more successful in recruiting qua…
