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The development of typologies is used as a method in social and educational research that helps to systematically reduce complex information. Thus, developing typologies facilitates theoretical as well as empirical clarification and contributes in this way to the attainment of scientific insights. Typologies are based on the results of comparisons derived from analysing empirical material. These results are then clustered and outlined as dimensions for allocating individual cases, identifying i…
Case studies The contribution describes principles and possible yields for the implementation of case studies in the area of adult education. The research practical implementation itself is deliniated with an example from a research project from the area of learning research. Amplified are especially the central phases of the approach to the research field and the interpretation work.
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
Der Bericht erläutert die Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Befragung von Trainern und Trainerinnen für Frauen in Weiterbildungskursen im Bereich IT und E-Learning sowie einer Befragung von Frauen, die an solchen Kursen in der Tschechischen Republik, in der Slowakischen Republik, in Finnland, Frankreich, Spanien und in Deutschland teilgenommen haben. Er ist im Rahmen des LEONARDO-Projekts „E-Chance for women“ entstanden. Die Befragung hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Erfahrungen der Trainer und Tr…
The latest number of the Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (»Further Education Report System«) of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research marks a trend reversal: whereas in the last periods under review an increase in the attendance of further education courses was to be observed, currently attendance is regressive by five percent points – particularly in general further education. The author presumes that one reason for this is education’s focussing on the labour market perspective, an atti…
