There are voices at the political level, which call for a relocating of finances into sections of early education. This article demonstrates the high relevance of public stimuli in opposition to such claims. Therefore, results of the Brandenburg-Study will be presented, in which the usage of continuous training vouchers have been quantitatively and qualitatively researched. It will be demonstrated how in specific vocational and private phases within the lives of women in health and social secto…
The aim of wider-benefits research is to record the complexity of benefits and other effects on both the personal and the societal levels deriving from the individual’s educational efforts. The central issue is: “What changes are affected by learning interventions?” Schuller/Desjardins 2010, p. 229). The exploration of the wider benefits of learning is still in its infancy. Pioneers in this field of research are, in particular, to be found in the UK – the Centre for Research on the Wider B…
Geld kann es für Bildung nie genug geben. Darüber sind sich alle Akteure – von den Betrieben über die Einrichtungen und Anbieter der Weiterbildung bis hin zu den Teilnehmenden – einig. Dennoch bestimmen Rationalisierung, Effizienzsteigerung und die Abwägung von Kosten-Nutzen-Relationen auch die Diskussion um die Finanzierung von Weiterbildung. Die Bildungspolitik versucht ihrerseits, die Kosten der Erwachsenenbildung auf verschiedene „Schultern“ zu verteilen und Förderungen gezielter einzuset…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
This article is based on the significance of informal forms of learning in the context of lifelong learning as well as the structural educational theory following Marotzki. The authors sum up qualitative-empirical research findings on orientational changes of travel workers – young adults – while visiting and working in foreign countries to finance their journey. On this base, structural aspects of these journeys are identified, which can create an educational space: critical experiences, autot…
This contribution describes an approach for the assessment of the total expenditure for adult and continuing education and training (ACET) in Austria, broken down by public and private sources of financing. Variants of estimates of the expenditure are presented. Direct expenditure has been at 0.7% and the sum of direct and indirect expenditure at 1.2% of GDP in 2009. The largest share is born by the enterprises (40%), followed by the public (30-34%), and the individuals slightly below 30%. Amon…
