Large parts of adult education are not being reached through relevant laws at all anymore. Thus a factual deregulation is the consequence. This loss of scope faces a growing provision profundity of those laws thar are tangent to the adult education area and that have been revised lately. The author draws attention to this ambivalent context by means of the most important legal basis of adult education: the adult education laws of the German states and the social statute book III (SGB III).
The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
The author certifies the integration courses for immigrants, which were launched at the beginning of this year, a false start. The responsible Federal Agency allegedly operates with delusive numbers of started courses; the approval procedures are supposed to be too lengthy and the implementation for the sponsor of language courses is allegedly unprofitable. This is supposed to apply intensified to the 30 hour long orientation course, where hardly any direct payers can be expected. Especially t…
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.
Die Idee der Schulpflicht ist älter als das Paradigma des lebenslangen Lernens. Wäre es nicht konsequent, heute an eine lebenslange Bildungspflicht zu denken? Der Direktor des DIE, Prof. Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein, hat den Bildungsrechtler Prof. Hermann Avenarius vom Deutschen Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) nach Chancen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen gefragt.
Anhand der Konflikte im »Hohenrodter Bund« 1929 kann abgelsesen werden, dass sich eine Generation vor allem durch ein gemeinsames Bewusstsein sowie durch eine Vielzahl geteilter gesellschaftlicher Merkmale und darauf bezogener Deutungsmuster auszeichnet. Das hat Karl Mannheim ein Jahr zuvor durch die theoretische Anerkennung der subjektiven, die gemeinsame praktische Betroffenheit widerspiegelnden Generationsmerkmale bereits klar erkannt.
