Seit 2020 fördert das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS ) Modellprojekte zu Verbundlösungen im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung. So soll der Blick über die eigene Unternehmensgrenze hinaus unterstützt und die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung erhöht werden. Der Autor, Referent im BMAS , beschreibt die Zielsetzungen der Weiterbildungsverbünde und ihre Erfolgsfaktoren, aber auch Schwierigkeiten bei der Umsetzung.
Until now, the organization-specific proportion in professional development has received little recognition despite its significance for the occupational biographical professionalization of teachers and continuing educators. The book “Organization as Context for Professionalism” was written subsequently to a research and development project, which was aimed at the educational management of continuing educational organization for the professional development of educational employees. The result …
Contrary to communications scientist Kepplinger’s thesis that public opinion can be significantly influenced by journalism, the author maintains that this influence is not very substantial. Scientific journalism is shown to be relevant in three different ways: the information it conveys may simply be useful, or it may constitute a relevant aspect of our culture, or it may play its par t in decisionmaking. Finally, the author sums up the tasks and gives characteristics of good scientific journal…
Over the past 15 years, a variety of approaches have been developed in (adult) education contexts to validate formal, non-formal and informal competences and thus harness them for lifelong learning purposes. Despite the development, testing and evaluation of appropriate procedures as well as process-accompanying research and procedural clarification processes, a nationwide implementation can not be observed. It can be deduced from these findings that the low degree of implementation of correspo…
Appropriate money management is a mandatory everyday competence. Until now, didactic approaches in the field of financial literacy were non-existent. This document presents a competence model, which systematises and describes the requirements of managing money. Various practical potential uses as well as programme formats are presented. Examining three good practice examples for different target groups, the document provides practical guidance including corresponding exercises and check lists f…
More lower rungs for the ladder. A proposal for new literacy levels This article asks whether international models can be applied as a means of finding well-differentiated literacy levels to map skills acquired during the literacy process. To this effect, the article examines the American “component approach”, the English “entry levels” and the “lower rungs approach”. One result is that the article leans towards the means of educational diagnosis known as “formative assessment”. Based on thi…
Dealing professionally with negative emotions Tolerance of frustration and ambiguity as a key competence of providers of continuing education Dealing with disruptions is a key challenge in educational activities. This article uses abusive, insulting or fault-finding statements by participants to analyse professional ways of dealing with negative emotions. Tolerance of frustration and ambiguity are developed theoretically, understood as an element of a broad “feelings-management” and propa…
Adult and continuing education study programmes prepare students for the broad spectrum of adult educational activities: Teaching is only one adult educational topic among many others: With regard to a theoretical as well as a practical professional perspective, it is advisable to focus on this particular issue.
