Neither demarcation nor confrontation. Finding a critical position towards right-wing populism

Right-wing populism has strongly polarizing effects in politics, education and science—a problem which this article aims to adress. Instead of claiming a demarcation between science and education on the one hand and right-wing populist ideology on the other, we initially focus on continuities. At the same time, we are concerned with finding a critical distance towards right-wing populism. Using the theoretical framework of boundary-work we therefore analyse a case of right-wing populist educati…

Typen von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen – Überblick und Ausdifferenzierungen für die Programm- und Organisationsforschung

The contribution aims at outlining a proposition as to how institutions of further education may be typed and systematically increasingly differentiated within the framework of developments on the landscape of further education. In addition to explaining how this differentiation could be achieved, the article also offers a broadening of the current perspective of typologies of institutions by including adjunctive education as a category of typification. The approach is thus anchored at the inte…

Interkulturelle Kompetenz – Training ohne prozessbegleitendes Coaching?

Due to the ongoing process of globalization, the need for trainings for intercultural competences increases. The study aims to measure the meaningfulness of intercultural training without additional coaching. Therefore, it assessed the level of intercultural competence of participants with and without an intercultural training in a cross-sectional study design. The results show that trainings actually have a positive effect on intercultural competence. Thereby, younger participants profit more …

Erratum zu: Typen von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen – Überblick und Ausdifferenzierungen für die Programm- und Organisationsforschung

Erratum to: The political economy of adult learning systems

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Historisches Dokument II: Zusammenfassung aus: Das Integrationspanel

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Sozio-kulturelle Determinanten der beruflichen Weiterbildungsbeteiligung von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland

The demographic change and the growing demand of skilled workers in Germany puts workers with migration background in the focus of interest in politics, economy, research and, increasingly, of adult education. The following article analyses empirically the relationship between the socio-cultural determinants, which are theoretically embedded in Esser’s model of social integration, and the participation in further vocational education of working adults with a migration background in Germany on t…

Education for elders in the U.S.