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Der Beitrag stellt Konzeption und Implementierung eines neuartigen erwachsenenpädagogischen Studienganges, des European Master in Adult Education (EMAE), als Beitrag zur akademischen Professionalisierung kritisch dar. Als zentrale Aspekte werden curriculare Kernthemen, didaktisch-methodische Ansätze und Arbeitsmarktbezug des Studiengangs aufgegriffen. Vor dem Hintergrund der ersten Implementierungserfahrungen wird das Konzept des Studiengangs auf seine Relevanz und Weiterentwicklungspotenziale…
Internationality is increasingly gaining in importance for the domain of further education. However, its tangible added value is of a size which has hitherto been difficult to define for adult-pedagogic practice. This tape presents the results of an evaluation of around 100 international cooperation projects which were promoted within the framework of the EU SOCRATES programme. Numerous examples reveal the possibilities which currently exist and limitations of European cooperation. Deductively,…
The article provides an insight of the opportunities and challenges of analysing spatial aspects in continuing education including the various concepts of spatial references. Regional continuing education characteristics are presented based on initial findings of the German Continuing Education Atlas.
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…
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…
