Hängen Impfbereitschaft und Weiterbildung zusammen? Anhand von Daten aus der Volkshochschulstatistik und dem Adult Education Survey im Zusammenspiel mit den jeweiligen Impfquoten entwickeln die Autoren Aussagen und Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang von Weiterbildung, Gesundheitsbildung und Impfbereitschaft.
The relation between sustainability and widening access to adult learners in higher education is both well comprehensible and highly vague. Accordingly, and following the arguments of Seghezzo (2009) and Foster (2001), the paper aims to complement academic discourse on widening access of higher education by showing the benefit of using the concept of sustainability not merely as an operational measurement index or a learning topic content-wise. Rather, a different understanding of sustainabilit…
Personal and organisational educational counselling The need for support in the search for tailor-made educational programmes is growing along with the ongoing individualisation of educational pathways. Counselling of individuals and organisations is gaining importance in this context. This issue focuses both on new theories as well as educational policy developments, devoting attention to current challenges in various fields of action: the training of vocational counsellors, research of coun…
The paper reviews trends in adult learning in England in the ten years from the election of Labour government in 1997. It highlighted an initial focus on expanding and widening participation in a wide range of initiatives in the years to 2002. From 2003 there has been a dramatic narrowing of focus giving priority to funding qualifications related to the labour market. Throughout the period it highlights restless change in institutional structures.
Manchen Einflüssen ist die Erwachsenenbildung einfach ausgesetzt: den bildungspolitischen Schwerpunktsetzungen der Europäischen Kommission etwa, den Ergebnissen international vergleichender Studien oder einem Interview in der ZEIT, in dem der Nobelpreisträger James Heckman Dinge sagt, die die Erwachsenenbildung betreffen. Was diese Impulse bedeuten, leuchten die Beiträge von Tippelt und Schmidt-Hertha sowie das Gespräch« aus. Andere Impulse möchte die Redaktion bewusst setzen. Zu diesem Zweck…
Immigration countries such as Germany require legal, social and educational measures to organize migration. Both, the immigrant as well as the host population need to be the concern of educational and training activities. Linguistic, intercultural and political educational programmes are particularly relevant. The REPORT on “Continuing Education and Migration” focuses on empirical research findings and implemented concepts: What are the key issues in continuing education to be tackled within th…
