This paper deals with a new approach in the promotion of literacy, which focuses on social integration. This approach has been inspired by a concept of adult education aiming at integration and by social work oriented to the life world of the addressees. These concepts are being adapted to the work with functionally illiterate persons. The approach discussed here includes different forms of action promoting literacy: both learning and consulting, and also institutional cooperation in networks. …
The Northrhine-Westphalian labour ministry, in a research project carried out by the Landesinstitut für Qualifikation (State’s Institute for Qualification) in Soest, investigated what possible contribution to immigrant integration might be expected from the State’s institutions of further education. The results, laid down in the study „The contribution of further education twoards the integration of immigrants”, look like a list of shortcomings: insufficient data, an unclear market structure, a…
In drei Thesen werden Aufgabenstellungen und Kritikpunkte der aktuellen politischen Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland vorgestellt. Zugespitzt sind sie auf die Fragestellungen: Marginalität oder Relevanz; Integration oder Autonomie¤und Normativität oder Beliebigkeit.
As a result of the current migration of several hundreds of thousands refugees in Germany alone, concepts for successful language training become increasingly important. The integration programme funded by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) plays a central role. This article refers to data collected by the author regarding success factors for language learning. In this qualitative study, 51 interviews were conducted with integration programme participants in a reception centre…
The partners of the Leonardo project "Training for the Integration of Migrants into the Labour Market and the Local Community (TRIM)” explored the issue of workplace language learning with migrant and ethnic workers. This handbook is a result of the project to support a training programme focused on vocational, linguistic and other cultural aspects, involving both the immigrants and the locals, in order to achieve an effective integration of the immigrant workforce into the labour market and …
Ausgehend von einer zunehmend durch Multikulturalität geprägten Gesellschaft analysiert die Autorin sowohl Asymmetrien im Verhältnis von zugewanderten Minoritäten und der Majorität als auch Ansätze von Integration und skizziert diesbezügliche Zukunftsaufgaben für die Erwachsenenbildung.
