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This report provides an overview of the standards between professional and organisational logic for adult education – from the perspective of funding and continuing educational organisations, education policy and research. It also summarises various strategies for improving teaching and training, and identifies outstanding questions. It also points out the role of teaching as a construct, which largely depends on the viewer’s perspective.
Wie lernt man Führung in der Erwachsenenbildung? Tragen ältere Leitungspersonen in Bildungseinrichtungen dazu bei? Welche Erfolgsfaktoren gibt es? Biographische Abhandlungen geben Aufschluss. Aktuell ist das Generationen-Verhältnis in der Erwachsenenbildung in den entsprechenden Bildungseinrichtungen auch durch das Ausscheiden älterer Berufstätiger präsent. Die AutorInnen fragen nach Lebensläufen und Biographien der leitenden ErwachsenenbildnerInnen in Bildungseinrichtungen und Hochschu…
More popular than its reputation Learning success controls in adult education The research project called “LeKo“ of the European Federation for Catholic Adult Education (KBE), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has analysed how learning success controls can be included in all areas of adult education and it has analysed which attitudes participants have towards it. The first empirical results are presented here. Thereafter the pedagogical-instrumental value is …
While political education appears to be of secondary importance in the national grants policy, on the European plane it is coming to a new blossoming. The European ministers of education are working towards a joint educational planning programme and are looking for common aims in political education. The pertinent grants programmes are a rich source of for good practice. In cross-section tasks the intertwining of political education and political development manifests itself. Monika…
