Fluchterfahrungen sind für viele Betroffene kritische Lebensereignisse. Entscheidend für die innere Bewältigung ist, einordnen zu können, was ein Ereignis kritisch für die eigene Biographie macht, was die Folgen sein können und wie nach der Erschütterung und oftmals Verzweiflung ein konstruktiver Umgang mit den Erinnerungen an das Ereignis möglich wird. Was kann die Erwachsenenbildung leisten, um geflüchtete Menschen zu unterstützen? Welche Haltung und welche Unterstützungsstrukturen die Lehre…
In den vergangenen Jahren sind unterschiedliche BNE-Zertifizierungen entwickelt worden. Aus den Erfahrungen eines Projekts zur Entwicklung einer solchen Zertifizierung zeigt der Autor, wie ein Zertifizierungsprozess Einrichtungen helfen kann, sich im Bereich BNE zu professionalisieren.
Trends with expectations and pretensions in further education in the context of changed work place conditions It is worked out in the contribution that because of changed work place conditions, especially in the area of information and communication technologies, an altered need for further education has developed. Concluding, possible consequences for the providers of adult education are sketched
Despite a relatively similar education system, the way how people can get a qualification for adult and continuing education is different in Germany and Switzerland. Germany has established an academic track within educational sciences with the focus on planning and management. Switzerland follows a vocational track with a basic qualification for teaching adults that could be extended by qualifications within the vocational system for positions in planning and management. This paper analyses th…
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 product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
Participants related and milieu related aspects of participation in adult education It is assumed that the participants quotas, participants interests and participants motivation do not only differ regarding the central sociodemografic features but also differ strongly with regard to the respective milieu affiliation. Theoretically the milieu studies add on to the traditional pilot studies of adult education (cp. Strzelewicz among others 1966) and the differentiating analyses of the modern r…
Im Mai 2025 wurde Karin Prien (CDU ) zur Bundesministerin für das neu gegründete Ministerium für Bildung, Forschung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend ernannt. Erstmals vereint ein Bundesministerium alle Bildungsetappen von der frühen Kindheit bis ins Alter und ermöglicht so eine durchgängige Perspektive auf lebenslanges Lernen. Über ihre Pläne und deren Bedeutung für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung sprachen mit ihr die Herausgeber Prof. Dr. Josef Schrader und Dr. Peter Brandt.
