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"Discourses of transformation" A discourse-analytical examination of professionalism coming into being and its changes After a few basic textual and methodological clarifications on an empirical discourse analysis, focused on Höhne, the author verifies with this method the mythological development models of professionalism.
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…
Through their employment in adult education, or as an additional means of learning alongside adult education, the media contribute towards the shedding of limitations of the place of learning and are themselves places of disengagement at the same time. The author, in a media-analytic perspective, outlines how communicators from the world of publishing are integrated into the didactic triangle and thus devaluate the pedagogical frame of the learning situation. At the same time new structures are…
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 …