The author discusses the influence of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) on the literacy education field in Canada. Methodology is holistic and centred around critical policy analysis. Finds Canada invested heavily in the surveys and has not yet changed policy or practice in response to the findings. Two reasons for lack of influence are suggested: the difficulty of comparing literacy survey results over time, and the lack of federal investment in the org…
From 1992 to 2007 a considerable amount of German and EU funding was put into development projects described as “Qualification Development Management” (German acronym: QUEM) and aimed to support the quality of vocational qualification structures in the former GDR. QUEM was sponsored by the ABWF (Study Group for Corporate Continuing Education Research). In this article the author, a scientist working on QUEM, sums up the activities in the programmes and projects which were funded. He identifies …
Education or competence – a pseudo alternative? It is a platitude that the structural change of society also leads to structural problems of further education. Therefore this is discusses intensively for some time past and the practical transpositions are gross. The impression of the authors is that it is argued, latently or explicitly, dichothomic even though that in fact is not necessary. In this contribution the authors want to expand on two such contradiction theorems with the intention …
Die Gruppe der Langzeitarbeitslosen bleibt relativ groß - selbst in Zeiten zurückgehender Arbeitslosigkeit - und stellt eine Herausforderung für die berufliche Weiterbildung dar. Bisherige Konzepte der fachlich - funktionalen Qualifizierung haben sich als unzureichend erwiesen. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen didaktisch-methodische Modelle, praxiserprobte Methoden und Instrumente für die Arbeit mit Langzeitarbeitslosen, die neue Impulse und neue Orientierungen für die Weiterbildungsarbeit verm…
The pretentions on professionalization of further education in the area of tension between managerism, evidence based practice and obligation of participants The transformation of the welfare state also leads to a change in professional profiles in further education. This shows among others in the tendencies of de-professionalization, such as in the form of a (re-) subordination of adult pedagogical professional roles and activities under the logics of administration, market and law or other…
Überlegungen, Marketing in der Weiterbildung zu realisieren, sind beinahe so alt wie die Marketinglehre selbst. Einerseits stehen Erwachsenenbildner/innen immer noch der Thematik skeptisch gegenüber, andererseits ist nach dem Marketingboom in der Weiterbildung am Anfang der 1990er Jahre zu vermuten, dass sich Marketing auch in der EB-Praxis bewährt hat. Für die vorliegende empirische Fallstudie hat die Autorin vier Volkshochschulen über einen Zeitraum von zwei Jahren begleitet, um die Akzeptanz…
Using the example of the town of Marl, located on the edge of the Ruhr area, the author points out the significance of the interaction between education and culture for urban development. He also shows which paths a town may take to deal with the structural change.
