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…
Mit fünf Kurzbeiträgen zu Projekten im Themenbereich "Lernen in Weiterbildungseinrichtungen" stellt sich der Projektverbund OKRA vor. OKRA steht für "Professionalisierung begleitender Lernberatung in unterschiedlichen Handlungskontexten". Die vorgestellten Gestaltungsprojekte kommen aus den Bereichen Altenhilfe, Schulen des Gesundheitswesens, aus der Beratungspraxis für kleine Wirtschaftsunternehmen und der Lernberatung für Migrant/inn/en.
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.
Ein Bericht über eine neue, interdisziplinäre Veranstaltungsform zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, die im März 2005 stattfand.
The "learning time account" links the politics of working hours with professional adult education. As a derivative from the "working hours account" it represents an instrument with which the worked for time demands of the employee is changed into adult education instead of into money. Depending on whether the adult education serves work related or private matters, the resources are made available by the employer or by the employee (time and money). In the discussion of lifelong learning the ins…
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.