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The current paper deals with cooperation under the perspective of governance from an organizational view. According to the variety forms of cooperation in the field of adult education, cooperation can be seen as a medium that adult educational organizations can use for their reproduction and coordination in different institutional environment. Based on empirical findings from a case study it can be shown that organizations initiate cooperation for collecting resources and legitimation. In this …
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
Quality testing and organisational development The project QUEST (developing quality, controlling, testing) It is reported of the model, implementation and results of a project for quality testing (QUEST). It collected the concepts, approaches and experiences – in terms of quality assurance - at several folk high schools and prepared the implementation of the model test of Bund-Laender-Commission (BLK) on learner orientated quality assurance in further education networks.
Transfer of information and knowledge in development of organisations projects The contribution shows with an example of a project, how it dealt with the organisational development of educational institutions and how the transfer can be organised in an extensive way.
Die Diplomarbeit von B. Dietsche beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Mitarbeitende in Bildungseinrichtungen mit Schnittstellen (als Orte, an denen sich Kompetenzen und Arbeitsabläufe funktionell differenzierter Bereiche überschneiden) umgehen. Dabei wird eingangs die beherbergende Erwachsenenbildung begrifflich definiert und als eine Veranstaltungsform mit langer pädagogischer Tradition und aktuell expansiver Entwicklung unter dem Namen Tagungs- und Kongressmarkt in den Blick genommen. Es folgt…
