Evangelical adult education center Westphalia and Lippe

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Working area of ​​the Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe

The Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe e. V. (EBW) is a church institution for continuing education with the headquarters in Dortmund . Every year it offers around 8,000 adult education events as well as integration courses and other education-related services in the area of ​​the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and in the area of ​​the Lippe regional church . The Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe eV is a recognized institution of public further education in North Rhine-Westphalia and certified by the seal of approval for further education.

history

The Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe eV was founded in 1975. In the Westphalian regional church there had been several impulses for a revitalized adult education work in the post-war period: in 1949 the establishment of the social welfare office in Haus Villigst and in 1950 the Ev. Academy Rhineland - Westphalia in Hemer. The Haus Villigst conference center, the men's groups, academics meetings and the Evangelical Academy in Hemer - from 1956 in Iserlohn - became the forerunners of the EBW, which was founded as the Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia in 1962 and acted as the Evangelical Adult Education Network in the 1960s. In 1975 the Ev. Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe eV This was a decisive step on the way to the professionalization of church adult education with the development of a full-time pedagogical infrastructure and the establishment of regional offices in the area of ​​the Westphalian and Lippe regional churches. Up until the mid-1990s, the distance learning course in adult education was a focus of the pedagogical qualification . The distance learning course was completed by more than 2,000 full-time, part-time or voluntary employees from various church or social institutions.

aims

Based on the biblical tradition, the EBW wants to empower women and men through lifelong learning and contribute

  • for the development of personality
  • to clarify questions of existence and belief
  • to enable a social and responsible coexistence in society and
  • to meet the demands of the world of work.

The goals and the basic orientation of evangelical adult education are summarized in a model.

Educational work

The offer includes more than 8,000 events annually with around 90,000 teaching hours or 90,000 participant days (boarding school events with overnight stays); they are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the further education law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The educational offers are divided into the following subject areas:

In these subject areas are z. B. the following offers:

  • Religious education : pilgrimage offers , excursions to churches, mosques and synagogues ; Offers on interreligious and intercultural competence as well as offers in connection with the Reformation Decade 2017 and the dialogue between religion and science;
  • Work-related offers: advanced training for educators, train the trainer, rhetoric courses , conflict training, burnout prophylaxis, legal questions on the Internet;
  • Society and social affairs: qualification for civic engagement such as B .: advanced training in spiritual competence, meditation and grief counseling, pedagogically oriented church tours, dementia support, neighborhood development;
  • Topic culture and health: workshop poetry slam , theater visits with an accompanying program of theater education , film seminars, excursions and seminars on questions and topics of contemporary art as well as cultural driving license health, anti- burnout training.

Projects

Project office Reformation Decade of the Ev. Church of Westphalia in the Ev. Adult education center Westphalia and Lippe eV

On the way to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the Ev. Church in Germany proclaimed the "Reformation Decade". Each year has its own motto (e.g. 2013: "Reformation and Tolerance ", 2014: "Reformation and Politics "). Since September 1st, 2012 the project office Reformationsdekade of the Ev. Church of Westphalia settled. The tasks of the project office include a. networking with internal church partners ( church districts , offices, works , institutions of the Protestant Church of Westphalia, networks within the Protestant Church in Germany) and with non-church actors (federal, state, municipalities, cultural institutions). In addition, the project office designs and organizes its own events in the themed years of the Reformation Decade.

Pilgrims office in the Ev. Adult education center

For 2010, the EBW developed a new pilgrimage route along the Emscher under the name: Pilgern im Pott. Since then there has been a pilgrimage office in the EBW. Every year there is a program with pilgrimage tours on foot, by bike or even with vintage cars . It advises when individuals, schools or communities are looking for pilgrimage routes or training opportunities to become a pilgrim guide are required. The contact person in the pilgrims' office is the director of studies for religious education.

The sponsoring association

The sponsoring association was founded in Dortmund in 1975. Its members are church districts of the Westphalian and Lippe regional churches as well as free Ev. Works and associations, regional ev. Educational institutions and conference centers. The general assembly and the board of directors are organs of the association.

The association is a member of the state organization Evangelical Adult Education in North Rhine-Westphalia (EEB NRW), the German Evangelical Working Group for Adult Education (DEAE) and the Evangelical Working Group for Adult Education in Europe (EAEE). In addition, the EBW is a member of the Gütesiegelverbund Further Education eV, in the discussion group of state organizations of further education in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the working group of educational institutions and academies (folk high schools) in North Rhine-Westphalia (ABA).

Business and study office in Dortmund

The business and study office of the EBW has its seat in the house of regional church services in Dortmund. It is intended to coordinate, support and profile the educational work of Protestant adult education in the Westphalian and Lippe regional churches. The tasks of the business and study office include:

The educational advisory board

The pedagogical advisory board advises the board on all pedagogical questions of the Ev. Adult education work and accompanies the establishment of further education professionally. The tasks of the Pedagogical Advisory Board include:

  • Development of concepts and work programs of the Ev. Adult education
  • Evaluation of the educational work in the EBW
  • Development of advanced training concepts for full-time pedagogical and volunteer employees
  • Organization of a pool of consultants as support for regional offices
  • Processing of current adult educational topics and priorities
  • Advising the board on pedagogical questions of the Ev. Adult education.

Members

  • Bibeldorf Rietberg
  • Education and advice from Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel in Bielefeld
  • Bildungswerk der Ev. Student communities of the EKvW
  • Ev. Adult education Blue Cross in the EKvW
  • Ev. Adult education Blue Cross in Germany
  • Ev. Adult education of the Ev. Help for women in Westphalia
  • Ev. Adult education Ennepe-Ruhr
  • Ev. Adult education church district association East Westphalia (KK Herford, Lübbecke, Minden, Vlotho)
  • Ev. Adult education KK Arnsberg
  • Ev. Adult education KK Bielefeld
  • Ev. Adult education KK Bochum
  • Ev. Adult education KK Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid
  • Ev. Adult education KK Gladbeck / Bottrop / Dorsten
  • Ev. Adult education KK Gütersloh
  • Ev. Adult education KK Hamm
  • Ev. Adult education KK Iserlohn
  • Ev. Adult education KK Münster
  • Ev. Adult education KK Paderborn
  • Ev. Adult education KK Recklinghausen
  • Ev. Adult education KK Siegen
  • Ev. Adult education KK Soest
  • Ev. Adult education KK Steinfurt / Coesfeld / Borken
  • Ev. Adult education KK Tecklenburg
  • Ev. Adult education KK Unna
  • Ev. Adult education Lippe regional church
  • Ev. Student work in Westphalia eV / Kurt-Gerstein-Haus
  • Ev. Conference venue Haus Nordhelle
  • Ev. Bildungswerk Dortmund
  • Violence Academy Villigst of the EKvW
  • Institute for Church and Society of the EKvW, Church of Westphalia (IKG)
  • International Education and Encounter Association

Chairperson

  • 1975–1997: Günter Apsel, founding member
  • 1997–2001: Albert Stutte
  • 2001–2006: Günter Ebbrecht
  • 2006-2010: Fred Sobiech
  • since 2010: Andreas Huneke

executive Director

  • 1976-1981: Henning de Gruyter
  • 1981–1986: Georg Behse
  • 1987–2014: Günter Boden
  • since 2014: Antje Rösener

Publications

  • Basics, focus, working methods - adult education in the Ev. Church of Westphalia
  • 30 years of Evangelical Adult Education Center Westphalia and Lippe e. V. - Accents and highlights from Protestant adult education - Festschrift for the 30th anniversary
  • Annual programs
  • Work and vocational education as a task of evangelical adult education
  • Is there anything nicer? For the 10th anniversary of the church leader training in 2011
  • Yesterday as good as today? Reformation and Education
  • The educational mission of Protestant family and adult education in the Philipp Melanchton year 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

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