New accesses to further education and work by making up balances of competence? First answers from Europe and Germany Several developing practices of acquisition, evaluation and documentation of informal and formal competences are presented. In a second step the several practices are structured and the model of the bilans des competences from France and a German adaption is explained.
The rigid division between the three subsystems of continuing vocational training in Germany (continuing vocational training for employees, continuing vocational training for the unemployed, individual continuing vocational training) hinders the implementation of an integrated labour market and qualification policy. As a result an effective and efficient use of the financial means for training (combination of financing resources) is not possible.
Going on from the report year 1 (http://www.die-bonn.de/esprid/dokumente/doc-2000/gnahs00_01.pdf) which offered a compilation of data accessible in internet, a discussion of case studies Finland and Switzerland and a suggestion of a ‘minimal’ data collection plan, in the report year 2 an overview of official (governmental) and institutional (providers) surveys on adult education is given. The design of a survey on experts from the national statistical offices is explained and the unexpected sma…
People constitute learning places themselves when a relational room perspective is the starting point of their action. Room in the learning place company can be relationally structured by further education processes. Spacings, syntheses and the consequently following dynamisation of learning places open up possibilities which contribute to a reinforced exchange of experiences. Participants of further education positively evaluate this exchange of experiences because it takes place near the wor…
The article provides an overview of the constellation of stakeholders in health education. It focuses on the publicly funded section and its current challenges such as the participants' age pattern, as well as the range of services and the relating quality standards.
Boundless work, bounded adult education? Setting out from the point of an interdisciplinary work research project on the basis of two empirical case studies it is worked out in which way current modernisation processes are referred back to on learning- and educational processes of staff.
The article presents the European development of new learning centres as well as educational and cultural centres, in which adult education institutions and libraries continue to merge. The author depicts three examples of these new institutions, which are increasingly becoming an element of educational urban development.
The research memorandum for adult and continuing education (2000) focuses systematically on main research areas and contributes significantly to the systematization of the research landscape, the enhancement of possible collaborations and the provision of an overview of research achievements in the discipline for research sponsors as well as the public. Since 2007, adult educational research projects can be entered in a data base in accordance with the memorandum systematic. Acknowledging that …
Justice in/of continuing vocational training? Is there a correlation between continuing training and justice, or put differently; can continuing training contribute to improving opportunities for social participation? The authors pose this question in a broader societal context and approach it against the background of the social capital approach. They refer to empirical findings from Northern Ireland which put into perspective the wide-spread idea of the positive correlation of social capit…
Based on the PIAAC findings, the authors certify international competitiveness to the German educational system and refute the reproach of insufficient training maturity of German trainees. At the same time, they criticise the recruitment practise in businesses, which is marked by an increasing academisation and exclusion of certain applicant groups