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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 Universität Freiburg in der Schweiz hat ein Management-Modell für die Weiterbildung von Führungskräften in Nonprofit-Organisationen (FMM) erarbeitet. Eine ganzheitliche Herangehensweise soll den Teilnehmenden schnell einen praxisorientierten Nutzen garantieren und gleichzeitig eine Erfolgskontrolle ermöglichen. Der Artikel beschreibt das Verfahren und nennt die angewandten Kriterien zur Messung des individuellen und betrieblichen Nutzens.
Taking the Bavarian Vir tual University (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) as an example, the author shows that the innovative potential of vir tual universities lies in the idea of a cooperation of utterly different universities, with teaching staff from different faculties, schools and backgrounds. Bringing these divergent elements together, notably in the question of a mutual acknowledgement of credits issued by each university, is one of the most ambitious aims of the Virtuelle Hochschule Bay…