Participation in further education is a central success factor for economic growth and societal as well as individual development. This is especially true today because in most industrialized countries, labor markets and work processes are changing rapidly. Data on further education, however, show that not everybody participates and that different social groups participate to different degrees. Activities in continuous vocational education and training (CVET) are mainly differentiated as formal, non-formal and informal CVET, whereby further differences between offers of non-formal and informal CVET are seldom elaborated. Furthermore, reasons for participation or non-participation are often neglected. In this study, we therefore analyze and compare predictors for participation in both forms of CVET, namely, non-formal and informal. To learn more about the reasons for participation, we focus on the individual perspective of employees (invidual factors, job-related factors, and learning biography) and additionally integrate institutional characteristics (workplace and company-based characteristics). The results mainly show that non-formal CVET is still strongly influenced by institutional settings. In the case of informal CVET, on the other hand, the learning biography plays a central role.
Zusammenfassung
Die Befunde zum informellen Lernen am Arbeitsplatz stützen sich auf wenige Analysen und Studienergebnisse. Bislang ist unklar, welche Lernanlässe den Erwerb zusätzlicher Informationen in informellen Lernkontexten auslösen, welche Lerngelegenheiten durch die Beschäftigten der Altenpflege genutzt werden und wie die Lernaktivitäten zu klassifizieren sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag benennt berufsspezifische Lernanlässe und zeigt auf, welche Lerngelegenheiten für den zusätzlichen Erwerb von Informationen, Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten durch die Beschäftigten der Altenpflege wahrgenommen werden. Insgesamt verweisen die Befunde der Interviewstudie auf die Relevanz digitaler Medien und es zeigen sich tätigkeitsspezifische Unterschiede in der Nutzung ausgewählter Lerngelegenheiten.
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