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So far in the field of continuing education research the management concept is and has been primarily focused. Therefore the research is still centred on directing structures and objective processes. Thus, this article concentrates on leadership, i.?e. the superior’s intended influence on the coordination of organisation members. Based on a contrastive case comparison, it analyses the enhancement of hierarchical and non-hierarchical forms of action coordination triggered by the superior’s leade…
Care of the elderly in Germany can nowadays be guaranteed only thanks to the immigration of foreign domestic help and of foreign staff who do, however, not conform to the German job description of „Altenpfleger/in“ (specialist for old persons’ care). This tends to endanger high-quality standards in care. Further education courses directed towards an intercultural opening of old persons’ care could show a way from this dilemma: a team that consists of people from different origins can, with appr…
In vielen europäischen Regionen haben sich Interneterfahrungsorte zu wichtigen Promotoren von Erwachsenenbildung und digitaler Inklusion entwickelt. Eine zentrale Herausforderung für solche Interneterfahrungsorte liegt in der Qualifizierung ihres Personals, der Moderatorinnen und Moderatoren für digitale Inklusion. Diese Gruppe zumeist zwar hoch motivierter, oft ehrenamtlich tätiger Menschen zu qualifizieren, ist kompliziert – teils aufgrund unterschiedlicher Vorqualifikationen, teils aufgrund …
http://www.diezeitschrift.de/12014/bildungsforschung-01.pdf