From 1992 to 2007 a considerable amount of German and EU funding was put into development projects described as “Qualification Development Management” (German acronym: QUEM) and aimed to support the quality of vocational qualification structures in the former GDR. QUEM was sponsored by the ABWF (Study Group for Corporate Continuing Education Research). In this article the author, a scientist working on QUEM, sums up the activities in the programmes and projects which were funded. He identifies …
The article provides an insight into the first results of the PIAAC study and links it with mixed-method and qualitative-empirical approaches as well as the development of competencies in life course. For this purpose, it shows two studies which focus an individual development approach in contrast to the quantitative assessment approach of PIAAC. The aim is to present advantages and disadvantages of different research perspectives.
The author unmasks »education for sustainable development « as an empty phrase, which has failed as a trademark in public relations. Not even the teachers would know what exactly is concealed behind it textually. Per decree an orientational concept of politics and administration is prescribed in order to encounter practitioners with great reserve. Ultimately education for sustainable development is nothing more than plainly modern education.
Development of personality competence and central further education barriers in social milieus Presented are partial results of a current Germany-wide empirical qualitative analysis in which the social and regional differentiation of adult education interests and adult education behaviour in the tradition of milieu research are ascertains and interpreted. On the basis of three social ambiences the development of personality competence and typical further education barriers are introduced.
Diese Ausgabe des REPORT widmet sich unterschiedlichsten Fragen zur Zukunft von Weiterbildung im kommenden Jahrhundert. Die Beiträge behandeln u. a. Themen wie Medien und ihre zukünftige Bildungsfunktion, Bildungspolitik im nächsten Jahrhundert, Bedeutung von Weiterbildung für die Unternehmensentwicklung.
The article points out the need and the direction of changes in points of view, the planning and the character of programmes, the role of teachers and the organizational structures regarding the further development of the German Adult Education Institute „Volkshochschule“. Schneider identifies development processes towards a customer-oriented institution as balancing out different interests of different learners, clients and cooperation partners, and education management as a new competence of …
It is a widely hold myth that face to face contacts are immediate. In this article the author argues that face to face situations are also mediated. Counceling and therapy always use different types of media, like body media, object media and electronic media, without consciously realizing it. The actual developments concerning the way electronic media change our social life are also considered in this article. Challenges and chances that grow out of these developments are presented. The concep…
Erwachsenenbildner/innen müssen die Qualität ihrer Arbeit überprüfbar sicherstellen und kontinuierlich verbessern. Stefanie Hartz und Klaus Meisel vermitteln in der 3., aktualisierten Auflage das hierfür notwendige methodische Grundwissen. Die Autoren behandeln insbesondere das Thema Evaluation, welches einen traditionell pädagogischen Zugang zur Frage der Qualitätsentwicklung darstellt. Darüber hinaus enthält der Studientext eine Darstellung und Einschätzung überregional relevanter Qualitätsma…
Diese Ausgabe der Zeitschrift REPORT widmet sich der institutionellen Seite der Weiterbildung und thematisiert Management, Entwicklung und Veränderung von Organisationen. Das Heft greift damit einen Aspekt auf, der noch immer in der Weiterbildungsforschung vernachlässigt ist. Eine im Zuge der Vorbereitung dieses Heftes durchgeführte gezielte Recherche nach aktuellen empirischen Projekten und neueren empirisch fundierten Publikationen ergab zumindest unter quantitativen Gesichtspunkten recht d…
More and more frequently, counselling is given with the help of media, be it as an alternative to or in parallel with face-to-face counselling. The present qualitative study is concerned with these developments in various counselling centres. To this end, research was carried out on psychosocial counselling centres offering counselling on sexuality, debt, drugs and education, and for children, young people and couples. The publication begins with an overview of counselling institutions, media d…
