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The Grundtvig project European Intercultural Competence Programmes (EICP) conducted at the DIE tests further education measures for administrative bodies that involve intercultural competence, not just as far as staff development is concerned, but also in terms of organisation development. The concept is based on the idea of civilian dialogue and addresses heads of administration as well as representatives of migrants’ organisations.
An essential task for administrative staff in adult education is to develop and offer courses. In the field of economic education (basic education), there exist only very few offers and didactic material. Hence, there is a great demand to describe requirements concerning competencies to be taught in this area. Such requirements for competencies may serve as a base for the development of courses in adult education. This article explores the questions on which requirements concerning competencies…
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
With this Portrait Adult Education the DIE presents an updated edition of its previous Country Reports. It contains an outline of the history of adult education in Germany, provides information on its legal basis and funding structures and supplies recent statistical data on adult education offers, institutions and staff. Portrait Adult Education offers researchers, students and practitioners dense and clear information on the current system as well as on future trends and prospects of German a…
Qualitätsentwicklung – als kontinuierlicher Prozess der Organisationsentwicklung verstanden – ist eng verbunden mit der Frage wie sich das eigene Personal entwickelt. Weiterbildungseinrichtungen suchen in diesem Zusammenhang vielfach nach Instrumenten der Personalentwicklung, da sie für sich an dieser Stelle Professionalisierungsbedarf sehen. Der Text wendet sich an Weiterbildungseinrichtungen, die sich in einem Qualitätsentwicklungsprozess befinden und bietet für den Bereich der Personalentwi…
Ein Heft zur "Input"-Seite von Bildungsfinanzierung. Lebenslanges Lernen im allgemeinen und Weiterbildung im speziellen sind von all jenen zu finanzieren, die davon profitieren: Staat, Unternehmen und Individuen. Das nennt man "Ko-Finanzierung". Eigentlich sollte dieses Heft zur Bildungsfinanzierung pünktlich zum Votum der vom BMBF eingesetzten "Expertenkommission zur Finanzierung lebenslangen Lernens" erscheinen. Nun hat sich die Übergabe des Kommissionsberichts verzögert, so dass vorerst "n…
Qualität / Qualitäten: Die Qualitätsfrage umfasst alle Bereiche der Weiterbildung. Lehr-/Lernprozesse, ihre Organisation und Rahmenbedingungen stehen in ihrer Gesamtheit auf dem Qualitätsprüfstand. Das Heft beleuchtet wesentliche Entwicklungslinien: Vergleichbarkeit von Qualitätsmodellen (Schiersmann); Personalentwicklung nach innen (Mathes) und externe Beratung (Ehses/Zech); bestehende Qualitäts-Labels im Ausland (Jermann); bundespolitische Maßnahmen für mehr Qualität durch das BMBF (Pahl). …
The perspective of administrational staff in educational organizations is barely in focus in adult education research. This paper reacts on this desideratum of research and tries to answer the following question: How does the administrational staff of Adult education organizations perceive the collaboration with the pedagogical staff? This question is answered within a qualitative research design. Therefore, the existing data of a qualitative study concerning cultures of teaching in adult educa…
