Dobischat analysiert grundlegende Problemlagen und Trends der beruflichen Weiterbildung und fordert als Konsequenz eine stärkere Zusammenarbeit zwischen Betrieben und Weiterbildungsorganisationen. Die zunehmende Regionalisierung in so genannten „Lernenden Regionen“ fördert nach seiner Einschätzung eine solche Entwicklung. Am Beispiel eines Modellprojekts in Gronau untersucht er kritisch die Frage, was Weiterbildung zum regionalen Strukturwandel beitragen kann. Er betont, dass nur eine Basisfina…
Die Literaturrecherche gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen und Diskussionen der Jahre 1995–1999 im Bereich der Gesetzgebung zur Weiterbildung in Deutsch-land; hier insbesondere die Novellierungen der Ländergesetze zur Weiterbildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Niedersachsen und in Rheinland-Pfalz begleitend. Die in der Rubrik „Internationale/vergleichende Darstellungen” zusammengestellte Literatur ermöglicht einen Einblick in die Weiterbildungspolitik und die gesetzlichen Regelungen andere…
This report provides an overview of the standards between professional and organisational logic for adult education – from the perspective of funding and continuing educational organisations, education policy and research. It also summarises various strategies for improving teaching and training, and identifies outstanding questions. It also points out the role of teaching as a construct, which largely depends on the viewer’s perspective.
The article focuses on the historically empirical data of DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung and contributes to adult educational journal research. By analyzing bibliographic meta data, continuities and changes in the content spectre are identified. The compositions of authors is differentiated between occasional and regular authors and compared to other scientific journals. Data on the journal’s reputation in the field complete the picture.
The paper reviews developmental-psychological research on the (in-)stability of adult personality aspects. Big Five personality traits as well as surface characteristics are addressed. Hereby, the direction and the extent of change are compared for various personality aspects, and the influences on personality changes are discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn for the field of adult education.
In her dissertation, the author collected and evaluated self-assessments of language study travellers travelling with Carl Duisburg Centres. 90 participants were questioned quantitatively. In addition to the expected competence improvement of foreign languages, the flexibility and mobility as well as intercultural competences were increased. The competence acquisition in connection to the participants’ individual ages was investigated in a supplementary qualitative research.
Vocational continuing education by gainfully employed persons – the explanatory power of activity-related features for continuing education behaviour Socio-demographic, company and employment data is often used to explain continuing education behaviour of individuals. Even though continuing education needs arise directly in the job context, job-related aspects are less frequently taken into account – not least due to the availability of data. This has been made possible, however, by a repres…
The article describes the project „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ which is working as a meta-server to supply users with an information system of relevant data in the field of education, adult and further education. The internet is offering big quantities of information and the chance to build up complex documents. Both make it more difficult to select and evaluate information. The „Deutscher Bildungsserver“ incorporates information critically bringing it into an order making it easier for users to …
