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This paper shows which quality standards are relevant for higher education and business perspective in the development and establishment of successful occupational studying programs. The aim is to record the expectations of universities and companies of quality in the context of continuing higher education. The level of the students is deliberately not placed in the center to allow the institutional view on cooperation. The methods used in connection with these studies are guideline-based int…
In this article the theory and practice of adult education are described as a system which sustains itself using certain rules of play. The author starts out with an introduction to the term »play/game« placing particular emphasis on the fact that this game sets off further acts of communication: further moves are made. Next, four dimensions are identified in which ways of playing games can be observed: the personal, the social, the organisational and the community dimension. Adult education is…
Local responses to local challenges Marketing strategies of adult education centres during times of demographic change As a result of their course offerings and their target groups, adult education centres offer excellent prerequisites for structuring and shaping demographic change at the local level. These centres thus fulfil a necessary social function while at the same time strengthening their own position. Target-group oriented marketing by the same token plays a major role in order to …
“The Ideal World of the Bildungbürger and Rural “Borderline Experiences” Programmes of German adult education centres in 1957 In this article course programmes of German adult education centres in 1957 are examined from the perspectives of four time-witnesses of German social history during the Cold War: (1) What memories are stimulated among time-witnesses as to what the courses were really like? (2) What approach is used in the cover text? (3) What differences can one find when comparing th…
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit entstand im Rahmen des Projekts Beratungsforschung rund um den ProfilPASS am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. Auf der Basis einer internetgestützten Befragung, an der sich insgesamt 709 ProfilPASS-Beraterinnen und -Berater beteiligten, wurden insbesondere die organisationalen Bedingungen von Beratung untersucht. Hierbei konnten statistische Zusammenhänge im Hinblick auf finanzielle, personelle zeitliche u…
In seinen Lebenserinnerungen hält der 1869 in Buchholz geborene Dr. Anton Heinen 1932–1934 kritisch Rückschau vor allem auf seine Berufsbiografie im katholischen Bildungssystem von 1893 bis 1918 und auf dessen Institutionen. Außerdem beschäftigt er sich ebenso mit Fragen des beruflichen wie des privaten Handelns als Geistlicher. Auf diesen „Rechenschaftsbericht“ stieß Dr. August Pieper (1866–1942) in Heinens Nachlass. Von Pieper stammt die in dieser Ausgabe enthaltene kurze Einleitung und in…
Within the field of adult education/continuing education the topic counselling occupies a central role. This concerns the theoretical discourses as well as the different types of offers. This study book situates the topic counselling in its pedagogical reference framework and provides central lines of development and differentiation. These include questions about the interaction, the forms of action and the conditions of good consultation. Moreover different forms of educational guidance are ou…
