As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…
For the author, "globalization" and "lifelong learning" are the epitome of disengagement in the economic and/or the pedagogic field. Using the genre of meditation, he develops the concept of disengagement - a shedding of limitations - by the example of disasters, markets, exacting demands in the context of learning, the power of the economy, the responsibilities for education. Reflecting on Comenius and Ralf Dahrendorf, the author tries to “bring the amok-running economism back to its senses” a…
The "Yellow Series" contains an didactically structured inventory of relevant topics in the field of adult education. It imparts professional knowledge based on the academic state of research. The volumes are intended for self-studying but are also suited as additional reading for studying and training. The systematic preparation of each topic also supports specialists in assuring the theoretical and methodological base of their actions.
Participation in continuing higher education has various perspectives particularly with regard to lifelong learning. By arrangements in the field of continuing higher education, universities need to react to changing learning and educational biographies as well as to enable prospects in the context of lifelong learning. An important aspect belonging to this is the transfer of knowledge. Based on the definition of influencing factors on transfer of knowledge by von Krogh and Köhne, the system of…
From 1992 to 2007 a considerable amount of German and EU funding was put into development projects described as “Qualification Development Management” (German acronym: QUEM) and aimed to support the quality of vocational qualification structures in the former GDR. QUEM was sponsored by the ABWF (Study Group for Corporate Continuing Education Research). In this article the author, a scientist working on QUEM, sums up the activities in the programmes and projects which were funded. He identifies …
Seit Jahrzehnten wird Krisenvorsorge im Gesundheitssektor als technisch-institutionelle Aufgabe begriffen. Die Bevölkerung wird dabei meist übersehen – obwohl sie die Schlüsselressource in jeder Krise ist. Und diese Ressource lässt sich bilden. Wortwörtlich. Warum Information während der Pandemie nicht ausreichte, um Panik und Verharmlosung zu verhindern – und was Deutschland von Finnlands „Comprehensive Security“ lernen kann, wo Medienkompetenz offiziell als Verteidigungsinstrument gilt.
Für jedes gesellschaftliche Handlungsfeld gibt es ein Bildgedächtnis, das einen emotional-affektiven, also nicht-rationalen Zugang zu eben diesem Feld bietet. Wie steht es um das Bildgedächtnis der Erwachsenenbildung? Gibt es vielleicht, wenn nicht Bilder, dann bestimmte Motive, die repräsentativ für die Erwachsenenbildung sind?
The present findings are based on a programme analysis of one fifth of all programmes provided by public adult education institutions in Low Saxony in 2012. The study focused on field classification as well as on the analysis of participation portals. Over all, eight portals were developed and identified for the analysis. The findings provide information on methods for addressing social requirements and thus differentiating the educational field – how intercultural education undergoes a delta-s…
