Maxims as a "soft" instrument for quality assurance in honorary organised adult education It is reported of the results of a model project of rural adult education that had the aim of developing close to practice quality criteria for honorary staff in this field.
Learn-time strategies, workplace realities and individual desires The general conditions and structures of learn-time strategies are critically discussed and summarised in the context of company related further education reality.
Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
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 individual and society today On the relevance of actor-network-theory, post-academic science and self-directed learning Introduced are deliberations on a post-academic science that came into being by the societal change as well as the requirements concerning self-directed learning in future.
Trends with expectations and pretensions in further education in the context of changed work place conditions It is worked out in the contribution that because of changed work place conditions, especially in the area of information and communication technologies, an altered need for further education has developed. Concluding, possible consequences for the providers of adult education are sketched
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
Nach einer kritischen Einführung zur behaupteten Krise politischer Bildung werden anhand eines Interviews mit einem Leiter von Arbeit und Leben Veränderungen in diesem Bildungsbereich vorgestellt. Daraus werden Perspektiven politischer Bildung bei korporativ-pluralen Anbietern entwickelt.
Vorgestellt werden die Ergebnisse eines SOKRATES- Projekts über europaweit existierende Möglichkeiten zur Akkreditierung schon vorhandenen Erfahrungswissens für einen Hochschulzugang. Besonders hervorgehoben wird das bislang weitgehend ungenutzte Potential dieser Zugangsmöglichkeit zum Studium.
