The article presents key findings of a study on the attitude towards education among immigrants. The study also covers interests in continuing education particularly with regard to parent education programmes.
Non-Participation in Work-based Training in Europe. Results of a Field Study CVTS3 After a review of theories and empirical results concerning enterprise-based continuing training, results of the enterprise survey CVTS3 are discussed with a focus on training abstinence. It is shown that most non-training enterprises do not see a need for training. Public financing measures for the promotion of continuing training are likely to be less efficient for these enterprises, while awareness campaign…
Continuing education at schools of higher learning – data on developments in the context of the Bologna process Wide-ranging, different and at the same time diverging factors are having an impact on schools of higher learning, causing uncertainty among staff as well as institutional insecurity. This also goes for scholarly continuing education. In general it would appear that there is a trend towards commercialisation of universities linked with a growing autonomy of sub-units, faculties and…
Non-formales und informelles Lernen gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Markus Bretschneider analysiert richtungweisende Dokumente der Europäischen Union zu diesem Themenfeld. Er berücksichtigt u. a. das "Weißbuch zur allgemeinen und beruflichen Bildung" (1995), das "Memorandum über Lebenslanges Lernen" (2000) und den "Aktionsplan der Kommission für Qualifikation und Mobilität" (2002) sowie "Gemeinsame europäischen Grundsätze für die Validierung des nicht-formalen und informellen Lernens" (2004). D…
Die Integrationskurse für Migrantinnen und Migranten vermitteln nicht nur sprachliche Kompetenzen, sondern auch Wissen über die deutsche Gesellschaft und ihre Werte. Gelingt diese Wertevermittlung aus Sicht der Teilnehmenden? Dieser Frage gingen die Autorin und der Autor in einer qualitativen Untersuchung mit zwölf leitfadengestützten Interviews nach.
