Searching for the third way. A statistical look at the practice of winning third-party funds over for further education institutions. The article provides empirical backgrounds for winning third-party funds over for further education institutions through the database of the German Institute of Adult Education. According to the database 17 % of the total financial backing for the Community Adult Education Centres came from third-party funds in 2005, after a maximum of 20 % in 2002. As a comparis…
Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
The article presents a number of photographs of the Franz Pöggeler estate, which is preserved in the archive of the German Institute of Adult Education. The historic pictures vary between ecclesiastic-monumental architectural photography and simple snap shots and illustrate the differences of learning and teaching arrangements in the history of adult education centres. Even though the author regards the photographs as evidence of a mentality-historically obsolete period, they still indicate the…
Hannelore Jouly, Direktorin der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart, umreißt im DIE-Gespräch “Begegnung mit dem Unerwarteten” Dimensionen konzeptioneller und medialer Planung und Gestaltung von neuen Lernräumen und veränderten Lernarrangements in einem multimedialen Lernzentrum. Erhard Schlutz fragt im Beitrag “Vom Methodenklmepner zum Lernarchitekten?”, wie flexibel Lehren und Lernen gestaltet werden müssen, um lebenslange, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse an unterschiedlichen - auch virtuellen - Lernorten z…
Neu starten, Routinen aufbrechen, das Alte hinter sich lassen – für viele eine sehnsuchtsvolle Vorstellung. Gleichzeitig wandelt sich die Welt so beharrlich, dass auch Routine und Kontinuität erstrebenswert scheinen. In der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung findet sich beides: Erneuerung und Bewahrung. Der Neustart von weiter bilden lässt uns auf das Wechselspiel von Kontinuität und Wandel schauen.
Iceberg further education Achievements of the graduation related further education for the mastery of transitions in the educational system Like with an iceberg, the achievements of further education are to a large extent not quite visible for the public perception. Among these are the activities of the facilitation of transitions in the educational system. The author has, within the frame of a dissertation, estimated how many certificates and graduations the German further education produces…
Während die Autoren die Frage nach der Differenzierung von Weiterbildungsinstitutionen und Weiterbildungsinteressen nachgehen, versuchen sie gleichzeitig sich einer neuen Definition von Erwachsenenbildung zu nähern.