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Über die teils prekären Beschäftigungsbedingungen in der Weiterbildung wird seit langem gesprochen. 2023 erschien eine ausführliche Studie zu diesen Bedingungen und der Frage, wie die Beschäftigten mit ihnen umgehen. Der Autor nimmt diese Studie zum Anlass, Beschäftigungsbedingungen und Veränderungsmöglichkeiten in der Weiterbildung kritisch zu beleuchten.
Implementing network type structures has become a widely appreciated strategy to promote actor-relationships in the field of adult and community education and to coordinate them purposefully. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on how a “successful” coordination of actor-relationships can be practically achieved. This paper offers some clues to answering the question by outlining basic characteristics of social networks and then giving reference to a recent case study from Germany.
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Although trainers can be expected to be important for the success further of vocational education, there is no regulation of the qualification of trainers in Germany. A so-called train-the-trainer certificate often serves as proof of professionalism. The study describes the topics of those certificates and their frequencies. Therefore we looked at the programs of 47 providers in terms of a qualitative content analysis. The inductively generated category system contains 56 categories on three hi…
