Extracurricular Learning and Continuing Education
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The Working Group concentrates its work in the important field of Extracurricular Learning and Continuing Education on a sector of education that is independent from and parallel to formal schooling, tertiary education, and vocational training, covering those educational activities for children, adolescents, and adults which take place outside the formal education system. This area has therefore come to be known as non-formal education. What is promoted is the acquisition of knowledge and skills that enable people to take an active part in society and gain better access to the labour market whilst enhancing their personal development. Through processes of extracurricular learning, people can acquire the competences needed to sustainably shape our society and fulfil their responsibilities as world citizens. Extracurricular Learning and Continuing Education relies on very diverse forms of organisation in Germany in a heterogeneous landscape of providers representing a commensurately diverse range of educational aims and focus groups.
The Working Group deems it crucial to embed Education for Sustainable Development more firmly into the sector of extracurricular learning and continuing education and is therefore actively engaged in promoting the exchange of ideas and development strategies, the search for points of mutual interest and potential cooperation, and the identification of providers and qualified contributions to Education for Sustainable Development.
The current endeavours of the Working Group are particularly focused on:
- stimulating the discourse around the creation of a set of quality criteria for ESD;
- developing a catalogue of special objectives within the context of extracurricular ESD;
- building a network of support to advance the creation of a qualification framework and the spread of ESD;
- developing joint projects and participating in concerted efforts, e.g. the project “Sustainable Germany”.
Contact:
Working Group on Extracurricular
Learning and Continuing Education
Arbeitsgruppe Außerschulische und
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dvv international
Obere Wilhelmstraße 32
53225 Bonn, Germany
Person to contact: Eva König
koenig@dvv-international.de
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