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Subjects move and act in spatial contexts and through their actions, they create spaces. This also applies to adult learning and to the professional practice of adult education, yet the systematic incorporation of spatial aspects into adult education research to date has remained marginal. This publication takes the category of space as a focal point, with the various chapters defining and honing its meaning for adult education. It brings together the relevant theoretical discourses, summarizes…
Looking at persons and at those active in organisations has forever been in the focus of psychological research on organisations. Monika Kil draws attention to the fact that pedagogical psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology can also contribute towards a structuring of further education institutions that is conducive to learning. Developing a »learning culture « is one aspect of this. A review of further developments and findings opens up new dimensions for a discourse on organi…
Considering current large-scale developments, the author takes a look at the supervision of spatial development processes as well as the opportunities and potentials of adult education networks for regional development.
Teachers and trainers can only act on what they notice. In line with use-inspired basic research, the question pursued in this book is how teachers’ and trainers’ competence to perceive, analyze, and diagnose situations of learning and instruction can be enhanced resulting in long-term effects. The present state of research with regard to adult education science’s professionalization discourse, teacher education research, competence as well as expertise research is drawn upon in order to gain a…
Based on the currently observable »generation change« in organizations of adult and continuing education, the text deals with conflicts between different generations and age groups, which may arise from this special situation of transition. Different forms of conflicts and tensions are outlined with regard to selected findings from studies of business and adult educational research on organizations. Above all organizations of adult and continuing education are confronted with the dilemma of con…
Hans Georg Rosenstein describes the objectives and priorities of the renewed European Agenda for Adult Learning, which was adopted by the European Council in 2011. Both, the role of the European Commission are analyzed as well as the tools and budget for the agenda’s implementation. The article concludes with a critical classification of »Erasmus for all«, the new EU-programme for general and vocational education.
This article presents the findings of a research project on structure and change in continuing education in Bremen, set out as a longitudinal analysis of selected years between 1979 and 2006. At the level of the continuing education system as a whole, the author identifies a certain structural stability evident from the fact that despite a growth in the number of market-oriented providers from 1996 to 2006, their competition – providers under public law – retained its structural influence on th…
Das Leonardo-da-Vinci-Projekt EUREVINQ hat ein Fortbildungskonzept bestehend aus Curriculum und Qualitätsstandards entwickelt, um die Implementierung einer branchenspezifischen Qualifizierung auf dem europäischen Weiterbildungsmarkt zu unterstützen. Qualitätsstandards geben hier Mindeststandards für die Umsetzung unter regional verschiedenen Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen vor. Es wird die Notwendigkeit von Mindeststandards aufgezeigt und die entwickelten Qualitätsstandards – einerseits für …
Die Diskussion über Qualitätsmanagementsysteme gehört in vielen Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zum beruflichen Alltag. Wo das noch nicht der Fall ist stellt sich für viele die Frage, ob sie ihre Qualität nach eigenen selbstevaluativen Verfahren oder nach anerkannten Modellen entwickeln sollen. Zwei der bekanntesten und international anerkannten Qualitätsmodelle sind die Normenreihe DIN EN ISO 9000 ff. und das Modell der European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). Daneben haben sich in De…
