Zweifellos hat die Nutzung digitaler Medien in der Corona-Pandemie auch in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung einen großen Schub erfahren, wenn dies die Einbrüche in Angebot und Teilnahme nicht vollständig ausgleichen konnte. Doch wie nachhaltig ist diese Entwicklung? Reichen die bisherigen Anstrengungen aus, um die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung im Allgemeinen und die Volkshochschulen im Besonderen zukunftssicher aufzustellen? Darüber sprachen Herausgeber Josef Schrader und Redakteur Jan Rohwe…
Ist die Zukunft der Bildung durch Technologie geprägt? Das steht für Dr. Anna Hansch, Senior Customer Success Manager bei LinkedIn, und Andreas Dörich, Geschäftsführer der oncampus GmbH, außer Frage. Doch was bedeutet »gute Bildung« in diesem Zusammenhang? Welches sind die Stärken der EdTech-Branche, und welche Rolle spielen pädagogische Fragen? Hierüber sprachen Hansch und Dörich mit Redakteur Jan Rohwerder.
Hans Georg Rosenstein describes the objectives and priorities of the renewed European Agenda for Adult Learning, which was adopted by the European Council in 2011. Both, the role of the European Commission are analyzed as well as the tools and budget for the agenda’s implementation. The article concludes with a critical classification of »Erasmus for all«, the new EU-programme for general and vocational education.
This article provides insight into the lives of active retirees whose departure from gainful working life has ushered in a new stage in their work-related development. The results of an explorative interview study with retirees working for pay or voluntarily are presented. The article in particular examines the differences between previous work and work-related activity in retirement as well as aspects relating to continuing education.
Within vocational training, small and medium-sized enterprises are confronted with various problems and challenges. Such enterprises began to initiate and organize specific continuation education programs within networks and other forms of cooperation in order to overcome these problems. This article evaluates such business networks on the basis of an empirical qualitative study focusing on the requirements and preconditions for effective cooperations.
The article focuses on the development of the global educational discourse from a human rights perspective, particularly with regard to adult education and lifelong learning. The author discusses the historic milestones set by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the consequent understanding of learning as well as the various national implementation strategies of the right for lifelong learning.
In the form of a review, the author outlines the history of how cooperation has been achieved and imposed in the field of continuing education. He distinguishes between cooperation as an intervention and as an exchange, and between proclamatory, hierarchical and participative cooperation. The structure of the network is presented as way to boost cooperation, and is studied to identify risks and key success factors.
Equality of professional and academic education? Results of comparisons according to the “Oldenburger Anrechnungsmodell” It is intended to strengthen the permeability of the educational system by taking into account professional qualifications for academic studies. The article describes an appropriate instrument, developed as a model project, to measure levels of learning units which is being used for comparisons between professional and academic qualifications.
People learn in manifold ways in football clubs. This article illustrates this by examining the manager-licensing system of the German Football Association and initiatives aimed at strengthening the role of volunteers in clubs through special qualification strategies. This article supplements a retrospective text which shows that clubs are an important place of learning and the roots of adult education lie in the domain of clubs.
Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.
