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The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
The contribution contrasts interview statements of further education managers of the car industry from the years 1994 and 2004. The expert interviews draw a sober picture of the reality of operational education in the branch: the methods of determination of requirements and of the educational controlling are barely more elaborated than ten years ago; innovations of the industrial relations law do not grip; group work and e-learning are no longer favoured forms. Therefore the further education o…
Schäffter, Ortfried: Innovation consultancy in the pedagogy of adult education Institutionalisation of innovation in the organisations of extended vocational training Firstly the contribution shows to which extent an organisational theory on the pedagogy of adult education offers explanatory possiblities for an ongoing innovative structural change. Then the implicit aspect of innovation in concepts of pedagogical organisational is being expatiated and conceptually differentiated. The diffe…
Küchler, Felicitas von: Trials of innovation and development of the pedagogical professionality of the consultancy system The central terms of the framegiving political education programme are presented. Scetched are the the implicit requirements of the innovation consultancy as well as the principles of work that were developed during the concept of the scientific councelling for the support of the innovation consultancy. With the background of the current social scientific professional co…
Erst in den 90er Jahren wird der Begriff „Innovation“ auch mit dem Bildungsbereich in Verbindung gebracht. Was aber bedeutet „Innovation“ in der Erwachsenenbildung? Angeregt durch die Resonanz auf den gleichnamigen Preis des DIE gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren dieser Frage nach. Bei der Auswahl der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger klärt sich am Beispiel der ausgezeichneten Projekte, was von der Jury im Konsens als innovativ empfunden wird. 1999 waren dies Ansätze zu einer neuen Lernkultur, …
In this paper, the authors examine the setting of and working with boundaries between everyday work and innovation development, based on an empirical analysis of an innovation lab in the social economy. The lab allows intrapreneurs to learn and use entrepreneurial practices to foster social innovation. The process of boundaries setting can be made clear by the spatial structuring of performative practice, the constitution of symbolic spaces, the rhythm of divergence and convergence as well as a…