Von der Umkehr des Matthäus-Effekts – Stundenintensive Weiterbildung bei geringen numeralen Kompetenzen

International large-scale assessments, the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) and adult education systems

Neue Bücher aus der Weiterbildungsforschung

Researching the political economy of adult learning systems. Theoretical amendments and empirical findings

Multi-layered perspective on the barriers to learning participation of disadvantaged adults

In steady search for optimization: the role of public and private actors in Switzerland’s political economy of adult education

Berufliche Weiterbildungsbeteiligung von Älteren im europäischen Vergleich – Welche Rolle spielen Institutionen?

Comparing adult education systems: Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand

Kooperation als Medium der Selbststeuerung und Reproduktion von Organisationen der Weiterbildung

The article deals with cooperation under the perspective of governance from an organisational view. According to the variety forms of cooperation in the field of adult education, cooperation can be seen as a medium that adult educational organisations can use for their reproduction and coordination in different institutional environment. Based on empirical findings from a case study, it can be shown that organisations initiate cooperation for collecting resources and legitimation. So, organisat…

Nachhaltigkeit und Öffnung der Hochschulen für erwachsene Lerner

The relation between sustainability and widening access to adult learners in higher education is both well comprehensible and highly vague. Accordingly, and following the arguments of Seghezzo (2009) and Foster (2001), the paper aims to complement academic discourse on widening access of higher education by showing the benefit of using the concept of sustainability not merely as an operational measurement index or a learning topic content-wise. Rather, a different understanding of sustainabilit…