This text is focused on examining the relevance of the trends towards democratisation in the Adult Education context of Spain. After giving a description of the legal frame, the text develops a brief explanation of the different models which coexist in Adult Education centres. In particular, the author emphasises the relevance of the social model in the Spanish contexts of Adult Education, as it is starting from high expectations about the learners’ capacities and based on the participant’s rig…
Dieser REPORT 29 thematisiert die Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen, vor denen die neuen Bundesländer im Bildungsbereich nach der Wiedervereinigung stehen.
The report introduces the topic of municipal education monitoring based on the »Aachen Declaration« on municipal educational responsibility by the German Association of Cities and Towns. The statistics on adult education centres are essential for the still limited local continuing education monitoring. Two examples (Rheingau-Taunus district and City of Trier) explicate the data benefits, which indicate strengths and weaknesses and reveal operative requirements to decision makers in institutions…
Main pillars of professionalisation. The “qualification framework for teachers“ and the “core curriculum adult education and continuing education” Here two initiatives are being compared, which want to contribute to the professionalisation of the continuing education area. The “qualification framework for teachers“ is a German derivate of the European Qualifications Framework. It creates a grid in which the manifold qualification possibilities for teachers of the continuing education area can …
People learn in manifold ways in football clubs. This article illustrates this by examining the manager-licensing system of the German Football Association and initiatives aimed at strengthening the role of volunteers in clubs through special qualification strategies. This article supplements a retrospective text which shows that clubs are an important place of learning and the roots of adult education lie in the domain of clubs.
Statistische Weiterbildungsdaten können eine gute Grundlage der Steuerung und Entwicklung von Weiterbildung sein – auf politischen Bühnen wie auch vor Ort in den Einrichtungen. Vor 50 Jahren hat man mit der systematischen datengestützten Beobachtung des Weiterbildungshandelns begonnen, als die erste Folge der Volkshochschul-Statistik erschien. Daran erinnert dieses Heft. Im Blick auf Potenzial, Perspektiven und Grenzen des Weiterbildungs-Monitorings zeigt sich: Statistiken aus Trägerperspektive…
