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Mit Blick auf gesellschaftliche Veränderungen diskutiert der Autor zukunftsorientierte Inhaltsfelder von Weiterbildung und zeigt Entwicklungstendenzen bezogen auf Methoden, Personen und Institutionen auf.
A variety of investigations are concerned with examining competencies of professionals in fields of adult education, neglecting the question what characterizes the activities they perform in order to organize learning situations. By analyzing an opening sequence of two different adult education lessons, the author shows, how microethnographic approaches of analyzing videotaped face-to-face interaction offer new insights in how participants ordinarily deal with challenges of establishing and sus…
In the past, continuing higher education at university level has been a marginal phenomenon in Germany, both within universities and the context of adult education on the whole. Internationally though, adult education has gained significant importance / relevance in recent years. While implementing the objectives of the bologna-process, German universities are undergoing a far-reaching transition. In addition, the rules of market economy will apply for universities increasingly. This very devel…
Interview mit Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein zum Thema "Methoden der Erwachsenenbildung", entstanden im Rahmen eines gleichnamigen Seminars an der Universität de Vest din, Timisoara, Rumänien.
Der Autor beschreibt das „Benchmarking-Verfahren“ als geeignetes Instrument zur Qualitätsdefinition in Bildungszusammenhängen. Im Gegensatz z. B. zur häufig eingesetzten „ISO-Norm“ knüpft Benchmarking an Methoden der Selbstevaluation an.
It becomes apparent in the current critique on methods of competence diagnostics that the problem does not lie in empirical or methodical, but mainly in theoretical deficits. Psycho-dynamic explanations are missing. Moreover, competences are mainly constructed as individual traits while social dimensions are ignored. Both deficits are considerable blank spaces. This paper argues that competence cannot be the cause of performance, but only the conscious notion of how masterly ways of acting look…