Seminare leiten macht Spaß. Oft genug aber bergen Lehr-Lernsituationen Konfliktpotential. Das vorliegende Buch rückt diese, insbesondere die Lehrenden herausfordernden, Situationen ins Blickfeld. Anhand von konkreten Praxisbeispielen werden Handlungs-alternativen abgewogen und Hilfen zum souveränen Agieren gegeben. Dabei wird in knapper Form auch das nötige Hintergrundwissen zu Gruppenprozessen vermittelt. Das Buch ist aufgrund seiner Praxisnähe auch für erfahrene Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbil…
In dieser international-vergleichenden Studie über das Bildungsmonitoring zum Lebenslangen Lernen werden Fragen nach den Steuerungswirkungen supra- und internationaler Organisationen wie EU und OECD bei der Implementierung ihrer bildungspolitischen Ansätze in drei europäischen Staaten (Deutschland, Griechenland, Finnland) untersucht. Dabei kommen die im Rahmen einer outputorientierten Steuerung eingesetzten Steuerungsinstrumente, wie Bildungsmonitoring und -berichterstattung, und deren Auswirku…
The European Qualification Framework and the National Qualification Framework of Germany are two offer-specific reference instruments, which should be implemented in the German educational and employment systems. Both of them are difficult to estimate in regard to their transparency, penetrability and support of labour market mobility. Enterprises and educational institutes seem to be different in their logic of action concerning their educational and qualification achievements in the society. …
Migrants are faced with the particular challenge of gaining acknowledgment and social acceptance of their qualifications acquired in their country of origin. They stand to benefit from a comprehensive implementation of the lifelong learning strategy. The acknowledgement of individual skills and competences should not depend on the individual learning environment. Being successful in the labour market is an important objective for holders of foreign qualifications. In addition, being located in …
A good two-and-a-half years after the EU's lifelong learning education programme began, the German National Agency has drawn up an interim balance and reflects current trends of the 2009 applications in the programme. GRUNDTVIG for general adult education. There is increasing demand for established forms of funding, affecting both learning partnerships and continuing education funding for individual workers in the field. Since 2009 the EU has put forward various new funding programmes. There ha…
From the viewpoint of Akademie Remscheid, a leading provider of further education courses involving education through play, this article presents the facets of the phenomenon of play as relevant to education and illustrates them using several examples of play that can be applied to adult education. The focus is on group games which can be played using simple materials. The central fields of learning targeted by play are identified as social skills, perception, expression, creativity and problem…
Reshaping the Relationship between Natural Sciences and Society – The implicite Learning in Contemporary Society How much does an average citizen need to know in the field of natural sciences in order to cope with the challenges of contemporary society? This question is being asked from various points of view. We will reconstruct current debates related to this question along three different lines: on the European level, within academia, and by means of a concrete case study. By relating the…
Continuing Education Participation – Current State of Research and Ascertainment of the Subject-Matter Who for whatever reason, participates in continuing education is one of the core questions of continuing education research and practice. Referring to two texts by Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg, reflections are made on what knowledge participation research has generated since the so called pilot studies of the 1960s and 1970s. At the same time, socio-demographic and occupational-rela…
