PISA for adults? Remarks about the consequences of PISA for adult education The PISA results shown by the OECD for the school area also have consequences for adult education. For the development of adult education itself but also for a holistic concept of lifelong learning it will be of importance to be able to refer to specific international comparative results. The contribution describes measures of policies of adult education that were initiated following the PISA results and it scetches…
Supporting Projects Replaces Safe-guarding the Infrastructure. Northrine-Westphalian structural change. The state funds of Northrine-Westphalia for further education were reduced from € 120 Mio to € 88 Mio between 2000 and 2007 by governments of different colours. The most recent reduction was carried out while promising € 12 Mio annually out of the European Social Funds (ESF) instead. This rearrangement from institutional base support to project-oriented support is a great challenge for furthe…
Education for sustainable development is being practiced exemplary in Sweden, Finland, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands. This outcome is the result of the present attempt of a European comparison in sustainable education. Since reliable indicator systems are absent at present, with which one could measure whether a country practices sustainable development more efficiently than others, the estimation of the author is based on surveys with official institutions and conventional assessme…
Complaints about the governmental withdrawal from public responsibility for adult education are most common nowadays. The "retrospects" shows how the perception of public responsibility during the last three decades of the 20th century has changed in the mirror of different political guidelines and an altering public interest in adult education.
In the last years the issue of adult literacy has gained international and national importance – not least due to the comparative surveys IALS, ALL, and PIAAC, conducted by the OECD. The result was a series of developments in education policy, in particular regarding the promotion and financing of adult literacy programmes. Based on country reports, the present article provides internationally comparative insight into the discussion regarding the promotion and financing of adult literacy progra…
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
Christoph Ehmann untersucht alle Bereiche des Bildungswesens hinsichtlich Finanzierbarkeit und möglicher Finanzierungsformen. Dabei kommt er zu dem verblüffenden Ergebnis, dass die bildungspolitischen Entwicklungen der letzten 30 Jahre, unter der Forderung nach Gleichbehandlung und gleicher Förderung, tatsächlich dazu beigetragen haben, die vorhandenen sozialen Ungleichheiten in der Bildungsbeteiligung nicht zu mildern, sondern fortzusetzen und zu verschärfen. In dieser 2. vollständig überarbe…
Grundlage des Buches ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der professionstheoretischen Diskussion der letzten 35 Jahre, fokussiert auf die Begriffe 'Profession', 'Professionalisierung' und 'Professionalität'. Es werden Ansätze und Schulen integriert, die weder in der deutschen Soziologie noch in den deutschen Erziehungswissenschaften bisher angemessen gewürdigt wurden. Neben der Theorie liefert der Band aber auch eine realistische Einschätzung der Verberuflichungschancen und deckt Begrenzungen der Profess…
