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Main pillars of professionalisation. The “qualification framework for teachers“ and the “core curriculum adult education and continuing education” Here two initiatives are being compared, which want to contribute to the professionalisation of the continuing education area. The “qualification framework for teachers“ is a German derivate of the European Qualifications Framework. It creates a grid in which the manifold qualification possibilities for teachers of the continuing education area can …
Although adult educators are inevitably confronted with ethical problems in their work, they have not yet developed a code of professional ethics to guide them and justify their actions both to themselves and others. One possible strategy to intensify the discourse on professional ethics, the author suggests, may be to interlink the debates on professional ethics and professionalisation.
Das Seminar für freies Volksbildungswesen an der Universität Leipzig bestand mit Unterbrechung von 1923 bis 1933. Als einzige universitäre Einrichtung bildete es schwerpunktmäßig Lehrkräfte der Erwachsenenbildung aus bzw. weiter. Die Seminare waren dabei auch für Teilnehmer ohne Hochschulzugang offen. Zunächst war Hermann Heller Leiter, bevor Paul Hermberg nach dessen Ausscheiden übernahm.
Adult education as a profession is neither clearly defined in relation to neighbouring fields nor clearly structured internally. Thus an ambivalent situation is created: on the one hand there are careers on this side and beyond institutionalised adult education. On the other hand the commitment towards a professional purpose seen as pedagogical in a narrow sense begins to crumble. The author refers to a speech by W. Schulenberg from 1969 and shows perspectives for the profession. They aim at a …
Management in Nonprofit-Organisationen stellt besondere Anforderungen und fordert spezielle Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten. Die Autorin stellt das Verbandsmanagement Institut (VMI) der Universität Freiburg in der Schweiz vor, das seit 25 Jahren in diesem Segment Forschungsarbeit leistet. Hier wurde das „Freiburger Management-Modell für NPO“ entwickelt. Seit diesem Jahr wird ein berufsbegleitendes Studium angeboten, das sich an Teilnehmer aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum wendet.
Mit der Verbindung von Professionalisierung und Humor in einem Heft soll nicht der Pfad der erwachsenenpädagogischen Ernsthaftigkeit verlassen werden. Schon der jüngere Seneca hat erkannt: "Res severa verum gaudium" - Humor ist eine ernste Angelegenheit. Ist Humor vielleicht eine professionelle Basisqualifikation des pädagogischen Personals?
Constructive approaches to the EQF and DQR - Basic and advanced certificate model for further education teachers This article presents a specific qualifications framework for the sector of further education, consisting of a two-stage model (basic and advanced certificates). This touches on the discussion about the EQF and DQR as a motivation and opportunity for the professionalisation of further education. The model takes up examples from Austria and Switzerland and is aligned toward prelimi…
A new profession for trainers of vocational education »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)« The contribution reports on the context, concept and perspectives of a pilot further education for »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)«, which is currently being tested in Bavaria. It ensures especially the pedagogical qualification of the trainers which is urgently required today and it supports t…
