Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
»Wir sind alle Flüchtlinge.« Mit diesem Zitat von Hannah Arendt eröffnet Michaela Stoffels den Schwerpunkt des vorliegenden Hefts – und stellt klar, dass das Flüchtlingsthema gesellschaftsweit wie auch in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung weiterhin relevant ist. Für die EB/WB betrifft dies vor allem die Sprach- und Integrationskurse, die, so Rainer Ohliger im Gespräch, einem folgenreichen Geburtsfehler unterliegen. Dass sie aber dennoch sinnvoll sind und für die Teilnehmenden wie auch für die …
Justice and the right to continuing education Education opportunities are unfairly distributed. In the area, too, of continuing education there are disadvantaged groups of persons who especially have already suffered discrimination during their initial vocational education and training. The demand for equal opportunities which dates back to Aristotle and John Rawls implies that everyone who suffers as a result of insufficient or unsatisfactory results in their initial training should have a…
Proceeding from the educational policy objective of achieving greater participation in continuing education, this article presents a set of instruments with which the learning and educational behaviour of adults can be measured statistically. Taking the example of data selected from the Continuing Education Reporting System (Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW)) and the Adult Education Survey (AES), the potential for analysis and the generation of knowledge offered by statistics on continuing edu…
