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Gegenstand dieses Lehrbuchs ist der Einfluss der digitalen Transformation auf die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung. Anhand eines alle Kapitel miteinander verbindenden Fallbeispiels bereiten die vier Autor/innen aktuelle Entwicklungen der Digitalisierung auf und verbinden sie mit Fragen von Bildungs- und Lernprozessen Erwachsener, mit Anforderungen an Lehrende, Planende und Beratende, mit organisationalen Veränderungen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen. Hierbei werden folgende Schwerpunkte …
Programs of further education reflect societal interpretations of education and are the result of professional pedagogical action. Research on programs of further education and on the underlying planning processes is educational research that reconstructs educational concepts in a phenomenological manner and that provides a knowledge base for decisions that need to be negotiated by society. In this context, program-planning models constitute partial perspectives on program planning. One goal of…
Die Broschüre „Kompetenzorientiertes Prüfen in der kaufmännischen Berufsbildung“ richtet sich an Akteure aus dem Bereich der beruflichen (kaufmännischen) Bildung, insbesondere aus der Prüfungspraxis. Sie bietet in komprimierter Form einen aktuellen Überblick zur Thematik zentraler Abschlussprüfungen, leitet konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für die Gestaltung, Bewertung und Einbindung von Prüfungen, sowohl auf Mikro- als auch auf Makroebene, ab und gibt darüber hinaus Anstöße für Entwicklungspersp…
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
Contemporary discourses in the context of educational governance mostly ignore the field of adult education. Discussions focus on global or national level, the significance of municipalities in managing education systems is widely overseen. This paper picks up the concept of governance to identify the structure and processes of managing adult education on municipality level. On the basis of two model examples the practical implementation of adult education governance will be illustrated, which …
The development of typologies is used as a method in social and educational research that helps to systematically reduce complex information. Thus, developing typologies facilitates theoretical as well as empirical clarification and contributes in this way to the attainment of scientific insights. Typologies are based on the results of comparisons derived from analysing empirical material. These results are then clustered and outlined as dimensions for allocating individual cases, identifying i…
In February 2009, a national association of guidance practitioners and scientific experts, known as the German National Guidance Forum for Education, Career and Employment (nfb), presented a widely recognized key issues paper. The following report comments on the paper from the perspective of continuing education research with a special focus on the following issue: Will the structural improvement of continuing educational counselling lead to an increase of participation in adult education? Due…
From the principle of the regulated occupation to the supremacy of certification: fields of conflict en route to the German qualifications framework (DQR) This article addresses the central difficulties observed in the search for consensus during the current development of a national German qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR). As well as the difficulty in blending in the German national “dual system” of vocational training with the EQF, the main difficulties identi…
