This report from England is part of a research project entitled Literacy/Basic Education – State of the Art from a historical and systematic Perspective in terms of Transferability. It focuses on the way adult (il)literacy has been approached, dealt with, discussed and analysed both politically and scientifically in England. It provides a historical overview on government strategy papers and outlines central ideas in theoretical discussions regarding literacy and literacy practices. However, in…
German universities have been compelled to live on a tight budget for years. Therefore, university financing is on the one hand concerned with more efficiency, on the other hand with the opening up new sources of income. Possible instruments for more efficiency are global budgets and the dividing-up of budgets according to indicators. New sources of income might be funded research and the provision of further education. But German universities are still a long way from being "entrepreneurial un…
Within the bounds of constitutional law, the Federal Government has educational-political powers concerning educational contents. These it exercises in manifold programmes and initiatives, among others in the area of further education. Veronika Pahl, head of the competent department in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) gives a summar y of the most important initiatives along with the political considerations that form their background. Quality problems are grouped in categor…
Das Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW) war bis zuletzt die wichtigste Erhebung zur Weiterbildungsbeteiligung in Deutschland. Jetzt hat es Konkurrenz bekommen: den europäischen „Adult Education Survey“ (AES). Die Ergebnisse beider Repräsentativbefragungen der deutschen Bevölkerung liegen in diesem Band vor. Neben Aussagen zur Beteiligung, zum Zeitaufwand, zu Formen, Kosten, Nutzen und Themen von Weiterbildung werden Merkmale vorgestellt, die sich als zentrale individuelle und beschäftigungsbezog…
Der Beitrag von Peter Faulstich und Gernot Graeßner basiert auf einem Text, der für die Veröffentlichung im „Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2006“ (Reihe „Schriften der DGfE“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) vorgesehen ist. Die Autoren analysieren die Ergebnisse einer Erhebung zum aktuellen Stand der Hauptfach-Studiengänge Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Erwachsenenbildung. Sie zeigen, dass die europaweite Umstellung auf Bachelor- und Master-Abschlüsse (Bologna-…
In Switzerland, experienced teachers can validate their competencies which they have achieved in the field of adult education. By submitting a self-assessment which is oriented along a competency profile, to the Swiss Association for Continuing Education (SVEB), the teachers demonstrate in a comprehensible way that they possess the necessary competences to teach in adult education. Experts examine the submitted self-assessments and use the competency profile as a reference standard. The experts…
So far, numeracy as part of basic education has only been considered peripherally in the German-speaking countries, regarding the scientific as well as the practical approaches of adult education. In this article, theoretical and conceptual lines of the discourse are linked systematically. In addition, it is argued for an extension of the discourse by including the concept of subject-oriented basic education, which is based on the concept of numeracy as social practice. Initial findings from tw…
An essential task for administrative staff in adult education is to develop and offer courses. In the field of economic education (basic education), there exist only very few offers and didactic material. Hence, there is a great demand to describe requirements concerning competencies to be taught in this area. Such requirements for competencies may serve as a base for the development of courses in adult education. This article explores the questions on which requirements concerning competencies…
Cooperative education arrangements are confronted with manifold anticipations which can be subsumed as ‘synergy’. This article which presents qualitative-empirical partial results of a current research project, is dealing with the question how Volkshochschulen (folk high schools) which are part of an integrated cooperation, are broaching the issue of synergy and how they describe their handling with this demand of cooperation. There are five strained dimensions of synergy and a broad spectrum o…
The following report offers an insight on the theoretical and empirical issue of cultural adult education. It is understood as an institution for the refinement of the aesthetic senses which, according to Welsch, can easily become anesthetic – a situation of suspended sensitivity. A second empirical approach presents the current provisions systematized by three “Portals of Participation“. Cultural educational provisions may be attributed to the “systematic-receptive type“, the “independent-crea…
