The paper discusses the significance of lifelong learning as a foundation for sustainable development at a local level, explores the UNESCO concept of a learning city, and highlights the importance of sustaining the process of building learning cities.
Referring to the KOSMOS project, the article examines the significance of quality in academic continuing education, the requirements directed at quality management, and options for development in the project. The focus is on new programmes for non-traditional target groups.
Within the field of adult education/continuing education the topic counselling occupies a central role. This concerns the theoretical discourses as well as the different types of offers. This study book situates the topic counselling in its pedagogical reference framework and provides central lines of development and differentiation. These include questions about the interaction, the forms of action and the conditions of good consultation. Moreover different forms of educational guidance are ou…
The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
In Retrospect: On the Conception of REPORT and its Development A conversation with the founding editors The reason for this interview is REPORT’s 30-year existence. Thus, the time has come to once again recall the events and experiences in its long history. In 1978, the “Literature and Research Report Continuing Education” was published for the first time and was essentially a review journal created to give an overview of the still widely scattered and developing discipline of adult and con…
Striking the Balance between Competences – Backgrounds, Methods, Development Necessities The term competence entered the pedagogical/educational discussions of the German Education Council in the 1970s. However, it has recently become, once again, the objective of an intensive debate. It is always about the potential of the individuals which exceeds the certified level of knowledge and skills. This article introduces and analyses three different methodological approaches to the evaluation an…
Migrant organisations have developed their own training opportunities for their employees. However, a qualified provision remained difficult. There remain needs of continuing education, e.g. the development of the organisation and its employees. Here the institutions of continuing education are needed.
"Discourses of transformation" A discourse-analytical examination of professionalism coming into being and its changes After a few basic textual and methodological clarifications on an empirical discourse analysis, focused on Höhne, the author verifies with this method the mythological development models of professionalism.
Serving oneself. The new voluntary work and the role of full-time educationalists People’s own learning and development motives play a more important role in the “new voluntary work” than before. This article relates subjective descriptions by volunteers of the learning motives underlying their commitments and adopts a profession-oriented theoretical perspective to relate these to a strategy of support for volunteers by full-time educationalists, referred to as learning and development supp…
Exclusion by precarious inclusion and the “new spirit” of adult education “The social question in Europe has a new name: Exclusion” (Kronauer 2002, p. 9). A growing number of groups of the society are in danger of being excluded from the support of the society: the shield against social risks, in the first place unemployment, illness and poverty is increasingly becoming weaker; compensation benefits against a missing justice and selectivity such as for example adult education training opport…
