Ekkehard Nuissl ACE-Staff: Field, Activities, Competences, European Conference Qualifying the Actors in Adult and Continuing Education. Trends and Perspectives am 03. bis 05. Mai 2007 in Bad Honnef Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
Questions What is the aim to foster professionalisation in ACE? What is ACE as an occupational field? What are the imployment conditions of the adult educators? What are the ACE related activities? What are obstacles and perspectives? Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
Aims of Professionalisation Political aims in Europe Supporting adults learning Raising quality of provisions Improving self esteem and competences of adult educators Developing the system of Lifelong Learning Making the system more transparent and reliable Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
ACE as Educational Field Closely connected to many other societal sectors No clearly delimited structure Low rate of institutionalisation Different laws, ministries Many elements of market After strong growth in the recent years kind of stagnation Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
Employment of ACE Staff Debate on competences, less on professionalisation Insecure employment conditions Little self-identity as adult educators Minority full time/unlimited employed Majority working in ACE beside other activities Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
ACE Related Activities Teaching Management Counselling Media/Curriculum development Programme planning Support Evaluation Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
Obstacles and Perspectives Higher Standards Appropriate flexibility Comparable qualifications Better further training More links in LifelongLearning Mitglied der Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung