Zur Steigerung der Weiterbildungsbeteiligung wird einem flächendeckenden Beratungsangebot große Bedeutung beigemessen. Es stellt sich jedoch die Frage, wie bestehende öffentlich verantwortete Strukturen in einem finanziell vertretbaren Rahmen ausgebaut werden können. In diesem Beitrag wird das britische Beispiel der Telefonberatung Career Advice Service (ehemals Learndirect) in seinen Grundzügen erläutert, wobei auf Vor- und Nachteile hingewiesen wird. Es zeigt sich, dass durch Learndirect neue…
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…
Cultural patterns characterize the architecture in which we live and learn. The article by Urs Maurer helps to discover these unconsciously perceived patterns as an architectural language and adopt it for educational building. It is based on the concept of architectural language being marked by polarities, particularly the antagonism between »death crystal« and »tree of life« coined by Ernst Bloch.
