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The pretentions on professionalization of further education in the area of tension between managerism, evidence based practice and obligation of participants The transformation of the welfare state also leads to a change in professional profiles in further education. This shows among others in the tendencies of de-professionalization, such as in the form of a (re-) subordination of adult pedagogical professional roles and activities under the logics of administration, market and law or other…
"Discourses of transformation" A discourse-analytical examination of professionalism coming into being and its changes After a few basic textual and methodological clarifications on an empirical discourse analysis, focused on Höhne, the author verifies with this method the mythological development models of professionalism.
This report reflects the current place and task of adult education centres in the German educational counselling landscape. It outlines current challenges and points out activities of state associations and the federal association aimed at a higher level of professionalization and quality in the field of counselling.
Peter Faulstich erörtert die Folgen des "Selbstorganisierten, -gesteuerten, -bestimmten Lernens" für das lehrende Personal in der Erwachsenenbildung. Fachliche und soziale Kompetenzen sowie ein vielfältiges Methodenrepertoire sind die grundlegenden Anforderungen an Lehrende. Faulstich konzentriert sich in seiner Diskussion auf die Aspekte Rollenverständnis, Expertise, Attribute von Professionalität, Aufgaben erwachsenenbildnerischen Handelns, Lehraufgaben und Kompetenzen der Lehrenden.