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The contribution aims at outlining a proposition as to how institutions of further education may be typed and systematically increasingly differentiated within the framework of developments on the landscape of further education. In addition to explaining how this differentiation could be achieved, the article also offers a broadening of the current perspective of typologies of institutions by including adjunctive education as a category of typification. The approach is thus anchored at the inte…
Constructive approaches to the EQF and DQR - Basic and advanced certificate model for further education teachers This article presents a specific qualifications framework for the sector of further education, consisting of a two-stage model (basic and advanced certificates). This touches on the discussion about the EQF and DQR as a motivation and opportunity for the professionalisation of further education. The model takes up examples from Austria and Switzerland and is aligned toward prelimi…
"Adult education students" as subject of the participation research After a short introduction into the questions and methods of a research project of participation research at the further education Danube University Krems, a partial result for motivation structure is sketched.
Die Höhere Bauernschule wird in der zeitgenössischen Bezeichnung „Pflanzschule für tüchtige Communevorsteher und Ständedeputierte“ (1841) genannt. Ihr geistiger Begründer war Carl Friedrich Hermann Klenze (1795-1878). Sie war die erste Heimvolkshochschule in Deutschland, bestand jedoch nur bis 1849. Der pädagogische Ansatz der „Pflanzschule“ kann als ein früher Versuch der Integration politisch-allgemeiner und beruflicher Fortbildung gelten.
Als Sonderbeilage zum Report veröffentlicht das Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung hier die zusammenfassend ausgewertete Erhebung von grundständigen Studiengängen zur Erwachsenenbildung und Weiterbildung sowie weiterführenden Studienangeboten für professionelle Lernvermittler an Hochschulen in Deutschland. Autoren dieser Zusammenfassung sind Peter Faulstich und Gernot Graeßner, einer der früheren Vorsitzenden des Arbeitskreises Universitäre Erwachsenenbildung (AUE). Beide haben auch die l…
Little is known about the qualifications of trainers in further vocational education. Some hold a degree in educational sciences. At the same time prospective trainers seem to be part of the target group of programs that specialize in adult education. The study focuses on which contents are intended in these programs and whether they could qualify for a later occupational activity as a training professional. For this purpose the course descriptions of 32 programs were analyzed and 10 responsibl…
Institutionally organized adult education has traditionally seen the integration of social strata and groups as its most important task. However, in recent years an increasing disinterest of general adult education in integrative work is to be observed which goes along with the emergence of a specialised andragogical approach and institutional compartmentalization: people with disabilities are increasingly catered for by care facilities and financed by social welfare institutions. The emergence…
