
Mona Pielorz, Patrick Werquin
Lost in Validation: Analysis of the French and German Systems
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Pielorz, Mona/Werquin, Patrick (2019): Lost in Validation: Analysis of the French and German
Systems.
In: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at. Das Fachmedium für Forschung, Praxis und Diskurs.
Ausgabe 37, 2019. Wien.
Online im Internet: https://erwachsenenbildung.at/magazin/19-37/meb19-37.pdf.
Druck-Version: Books on Demand GmbH: Norderstedt.
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The idea that we learn everywhere and all the time is not new and is largely accepted on a
wide scale by researchers, policy makers, practitioners, employers, workers‘ organisations and
the general public (e.g. families and applicants). Learning contexts other than formal ones have
received much attention in the scientific literature and the field of policy. Such learning
contexts are called non-formal or informal, and there is little consensus about their respective
definitions. This paper makes the claim that both France and Germany have a system for
validating and recognising non-formal and informal learning outcomes. They are more or less
unified and more or less developed, leading to different outcomes, focusing on different
aspects of individual competences and taking place in different contexts. An analysis is
proposed that explains these differences in countries that have different systems along with
a strong historical attachment to vocational preparation for the labour market. The analysis
shows that the approaches are derived from the same philosophy that we learn everywhere
and all the time and that the corresponding learning outcomes should be given currency,
especially on the labour market. However, the complexity of the systems coupled with a lack
of information and guidance for its users both before and after enrolment as well as the large
variations that exist in the implementation of this philosophical principle mean that there are
good reasons to be lost in the validation procedures.
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