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Future Skills and the Future of Adult Learning: Fourth Trend Report
The fourth trend report from the Think Tank TRANSIT is dedicated to the concept of future skills and their relevance for shaping the future of adult learning. It provides a theoretical foundation, critically reviews existing competence frameworks, and derives implications for practice. At its core, the report argues for an understanding of future skills that…
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Future Skills Concepts – the Basis of Perspectives for the Future of Adult Education?
Under the term “future skills”, the Think Tank TRANSIT addresses the question of what kind of adult learning is needed to deal with the challenges of the future.
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Individualised life courses as an opportunity and challenge for adult education
The trend towards individualised life courses creates a series of opportunities and challenges for adult education.
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Ever more knowledge and sources available: How does adult education deal with this?
Modern societies have access to ever more knowledge from a growing number of knowledge sources. This paper explores how adult education can guide learners in dealing with the swelling flood of information. Knowledge and ignorance in knowledge societies We live in a time in which ever more knowledge is available from a growing number of…
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«New values in work and adult education and training: New Work = new learning?»
Work is meant to increasingly contribute to self-fulfilment and create meaning in life. Is this trend influencing adult education as well? This focus paper discusses how post-materialist values in general, and New Work values specifically, might impact the future of adult learning. Increased importance of immaterial values Meaningfulness, autonomy and self-determination are values that have…
