Datennutzung der VHS- und Verbundstatistik. Potenziale für Bildungsforschung, -politik und -praxis

Drop-out in der Weiterbildung – eine Verschränkung von Perspektiven zur (Re-)Konstruktion des Phänomens Drop-out

Berufliche Weiterbildung – Teilnahme und Abstinenz

Neue Bücher aus der Weiterbildungsforschung

Moralische Probleme und ethische Fragen von Lehrenden der Erwachsenenund Weiterbildung – Ein Modell für die Forschung zur erwachsenen pädagogischen Bereichsethik

Komplexe Organisation und organisierte Komplexität

Organizations function as the central generators of complexity in modern society by regulating and constantly increasing the opportunities for simultaneous action. The paper conceives populism as a socially widespread form of criticism of this organized complexity and systematically differentiates it from fundamentalisms and conspiracy theories as important complexity reducing interpretations of modernity. The structural logic of organizations and their role in society is analyzed in relation t…

Geringe Literalität und politische Grundbildung: Die Bedeutung schriftsprachlicher Fähigkeiten für die Selbsteinschätzung politischer Grundkompetenzen

Basic civic education is discussed as a substantial pillar in the discussion on basic education, although little is known about the basic civic skills of adults with low literacy skills. In this article based on the results of LEO 2018 and with logistic regression models, the thesis is examined that low-literate adults assess their own civic skills as rather low and thus exclude themselves from the political field. It is shown that even when controlling for various socio-economic factors, low-l…

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…

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