For the evaluation of the World Literacy Decade (2003–2012), the author focuses on the successful and unsuccessful UN literacy objectives. In the article, the mobilization for global literacy, the reliable data survey on the extent of the literacy problem, the world report »Education for All« with a main focus on alphabetization, the acknowledgment of literacy as a continuum of the »Belém Framework for Action«, the »UNESCO LIFE Initiative«, the »E-9 Initiative« as well as several international,…
Nach der Veröffentlichung eines Entwurfs für den Deutschen Qualifikationsrahmen (DQR) im November 2010 befindet sich die Diskussion in einer kritischen Phase. Die Weiterbildung findet zunehmend Interesse am Thema und hat Einflussmöglichkeiten erschlossen. Aber ihr bleibt nicht viel Zeit, in der DQR-Diskussion Position zu beziehen. Ihre Optionen im bildungspolitischen Machtspiel müssen offengelegt und reflektiert werden. Hierzu leistet das Heft einen wichtigen Beitrag. Im Rahmen einer Umfrage b…
Consequences from subject-orientated research: questions to a media- and adult didactical requirement Based on empirical results that are currently available on subject-scientific basis on e-learning, the author wants to pose questions to media- and adult didactical set-ups. He asks these questions pointedly by bringing the “burning glass-thesis” up for discussion. Thereby it needs to be clarified, which characteristics justify a specific media-didactical discussion. Because these specific r…
From gender related education via the gender mainstreaming to the gender competence The different participation of women and men in adult education gives clues for their different circumstances in life and attributions that have a hierarchic impact concerning the gainful employment and securing of financial existence. These gender typical contexts are traditionally subject matter part of the women's movement or gender related educational work that took up a large space in the adult education…
In adult education, fields of activity have lost their strict boundaries: administrative employees also perform pedagogical work – such as counselling, for instance – and full-time pedagogical employees also have to handle administrative work – e.g. in project management. Both qualitatively and quantitatively, administrative employees play an important role in the pedagogical functioning of institutions of adult education, although this factor is often neglected in both research and measures of…
Consultancy in transition Interfaces of school and study as well as of study and job Setting out from the point of a teaching insight, which understands study as a job biographical phase, study entrance as well as study withdrawal as central interfaces of this phase achieve increasing significance. At the universities increasingly practical initiatives at these interfaces can be observed; certainly hardly any empirical studies exist that take a closer look at the need of the students at thi…
Theoretical references in professional adult education and vocational training To the extent that social sciences are dependent on the terms with which they are formulated also adult education underlies the impacts of terminological decisions, that can be encountered this way or another way. The usage of the term intervention is such a decision, it stands in the centre of this contribution. By interpreting the empirical results of research on self-learning competences as well as by theoretic…
PISA and adult education – temptations and open questions “The PISA results are an invitation for the debate and for developing the research rather than conclusive judgeements on the miracle recipe to improve the educational performance” (Heller 2003, p. 30). Earmarking for the discussion of policies of adult education after PISA is that the results are taken to express most different positions in little differentiated way. To this also the typical reception problems contribute, such as t…
Lehrkräfte bilden die zahlenmäßig größte Gruppe der Praktiker in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung. Sie firmieren je nach Handlungsfeld als Trainerinnen, Dozenten, Teamerinnen, Lernbegleiter oder Kursleitende. Ungeachtet ihrer Bedeutung für die Qualität der Lehr-Lernprozesse und ihrer Funktion als Repräsentanten der Einrichtungen gegenüber den Teilnehmenden standen sie lange nicht im Fokus der Bemühungen um Professionalisierung und Professionalitätsentwicklung. Im Zuge aktueller Projekte rücke…
Die globale Gesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts ist eine »Gesellschaft in Bewegung«: Menschen verlassen ihre Heimat freiwillig oder sehen sich – aus einer Vielzahl von Gründen – zur Auswanderung gezwungen. Nicht wenige suchen gerade in Deutschland nach besseren Lebensbedingungen und Sicherheit, nach Arbeit und Wohlstand – neben Flüchtlingen und Asylbewerbern aus Drittstaaten seit einigen Jahren auch Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner europäischer Krisenstaaten. Welche aktuellen Herausforderungen besteh…
