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This article starts from the premise that an academic discipline directed at practice has to question, within which terms its research results become useful beyond science. For empirical research, the authors put forward the idea of use-inspired basic research. This approach might be a helpful orientation due to (further) educational science’s double challenge to simultaneously prove academic productivity and practical as well as societal usefulness. By reference to points of decision regularly…
Press and public relations work in continuing education is gaining importance through digitization and social media. Here the current guideline for strategic communication in public spaces provides a solid and systematic presentation of the basic structures of press and public relations work. The focus is on different communication strategies for large and small institutions, communication with adult and continuing education target groups, the classic tasks of press and public relations, the We…
This report from England is part of a research project entitled Literacy/Basic Education – State of the Art from a historical and systematic Perspective in terms of Transferability. It focuses on the way adult (il)literacy has been approached, dealt with, discussed and analysed both politically and scientifically in England. It provides a historical overview on government strategy papers and outlines central ideas in theoretical discussions regarding literacy and literacy practices. However, in…
Im Rahmen dieses Projektes entsteht folgende Dissertation: Ioannidou, Alexandra: Bildungsmonitoring und Bildungsberichterstattung zu lebenslangem Lernen (Arbeitstitel)