Vienna’s adult education centres have developed a frame curriculum which focuses on the eight European key competences in continuing education with consideration of national and European educational strategies as well as the European Qualification Framework. The report focuses on the frame curriculum’s key elements and its contact points with the National Qualification Framework – taking the programme area of art and culture as an example. Cultural awareness and artistic competence as a key com…
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…
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…
Biography orientation and didactics Deliberations for the guidance of biographical learning in adult education In the practice of adult education methods and concepts of biographical learning have since long been integral part of didactical deliberations and they are newly made subject of discussion again and again with changing reasons and terms. For some time the concept of "Biographizität" is referred to in these discussions without the relevance of this term, which was developed in the …
Die allgemeine Erwachsenbildung fristet im Segment der Weiterbildung ein Schattendasein. Während die betriebliche Weiterbildung, die Weiterbildung von Erwerbslosen oder die Aufstiegsfortbildung im Rahmen der Diskussion über die Förderung des Lebenslangen Lernens sowie über den demografischen Wandel und dem daraus resultierenden Fachkräftemangel an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen haben, spielt die allgemeine Erwachsenbildung, deren Förderung im Wesentlichen durch die Länder und Kommunen erfolgt, in dies…
