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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 …
Competence Assessment in Working with the Disabled. Experiences Gathered in Franz Sales House in Essen The report focuses on the challenges of implementing a system for competence assessment in the Franz Sales House in Essen – a social institution for the disabled. The authors point out methods for the competence assessment of employees in a social institution to adjust them to future requirements and use them as a base for an effective management of educational processes. Experiences gathered…
The term »valorization« has gained a wide distribution by the EU support programme of vocational training (Leonardo da Vinci). The author points to the prospective that the term will soon be able to establish itself in other educational areas. Valorization can be described as a process of dissemination and utilization of project results with the aim of optimizing their value, increasing their impact and integrating them into training systems. A correlatively strategy shall be existent in projec…
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…
Was die sozial-ökologische Transformation für die Erwachsenenbildung bedeuten kann, erörtert der Autor anhand der Beobachtung eines Bildungsprojekts. Er nimmt dabei eine Transformation des Bildungsprozesses wahr, aber auch der Bildungseinrichtung, der Bildungsakteure und der Teilnehmenden selbst. Diese Veränderungen setzt er in Beziehung zu Aspekten transformativen Lernens.
Communication competences of adult educators are challenged intensively. Successful learning largely depends on the subject matter’s mediative aspects: rhetoric and vocal processes prove to be significant for the learning atmosphere, group dynamics, understandable knowledge communication and setting group and feedback processes in motion. As a result, a sound and comprehensive repertoire of communicative competences is essential, which can be acquired in close relation to linguistics and speech…
Beim Lernen spielen emotionale Prozesse eine große Rolle. Ergebnisse einer Befragung von erwachsenen Lernenden zeigen, dass gerade kooperative Lernformen positive Emotionen wie Freude hervorrufen und Lernmotivation und Lernerfolg erhöhen, so die Autorin und der Autor.
Kompetenzorientierte Bildung wird, so Sabine Schwarz und Peter Brandt im »Stichwort«, »von den Potenzialen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten der Lernenden her gedacht«. Obwohl es »nach wie vor ungelöste Definitionsprobleme« mit dem »Konstrukt« Kompetenz gibt (Matthias Vonken), wird die Orientierung an Kompetenzen besonders auf der europäischen Ebene verfolgt (Noack). Der starke Handlungsbezug wird im Heft immer wieder betont – sei es im »Gespräch« oder beim Blick auf verschiedene Inhaltsbereiche der E…
The current paper deals with cooperation under the perspective of governance from an organizational view. According to the variety forms of cooperation in the field of adult education, cooperation can be seen as a medium that adult educational organizations can use for their reproduction and coordination in different institutional environment. Based on empirical findings from a case study it can be shown that organizations initiate cooperation for collecting resources and legitimation. In this …
