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Hanft, Anke; Zentner, Tim: Qualification and personnel development – a competence gap in adult education institutions? Results of an empirical study on qualification of staff in adult education institutions The contribution analyses how adult education institutions and universities prepare their staff with education and training for changed structural requirements and reforms. In the centre are two studies of German state universities and public adult education institutions in the country N…
Arnold, Rolf; Lermen, Markus: The systematic of the need: „It is actually about something quite different“ For professionals in the departments of adult education the question of the different starting points, strategies and methods of needs analysis, respectively of making information on needs accessible, has an important role on the way into a market orientated adult education. The question of need sometimes grows into a meaning of large dimension, which makes the impression that this emp…
Dietrich, Stephan; Herr, Monika: Organisational development and new learning cultures The theme “new teaching and learning cultures” is a thematic focus in the professional discourse of adult education for a few years already. One consequence of the hightened attention is an increasingly differentiated understanding of what can be regarded as the ”new teaching and learning cultures”. It can be observed that the treatment of the theme does not allow a restriction on the questions of didactics…
Ehses, Christiane; Zech, Rainer: Good organisation – a contribution to the self-conception of the adult education profession Quality standards were found on the empirical basis of analysis of consultancy cases as well as group discussions with heads and consultants of adult education organisations. These quality standards can be the precondition for a comparability of organisations and they can also be quality standards for their organisation’s evaluation by internal or external evaluators a…
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…
Die Begleitmaterialien zum Doppelband von Erika Schuchardt „Krisen-Management und Integration“ geben einen thematischen Einstieg und vollständigen Überblick über die Inhalte der beiden Bände und enthalten eine Zusammenstellung von über 2000 Auto-/Biographien, in denen von Krisen betroffene Menschen ihre Lebensgeschichte erzählen. Hinzu kommen Berichte und Schilderungen aus anderen Perspektiven: von Partnern, Angehörigen und Fachleuten. Die „Jahrhundert-Bibliographien von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart …
