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Adult Education is rarely associated with genuine research methods. But recently a number of innovative methodical approaches have emerged which have been implemented in adult education. Often these empirical approaches are interconnected and therefore will be in the focus of our attention. This edition of REPORT will present and evaluate these innovative research methods in adult education.
Design Thinking als Ansatz zur Problemlösung und Innovationsentwicklung kommt mittlerweile in zahlreichen Kontexten zur Anwendung. Auch die Erwachsenenbildung, so die Autorin und der Autor, kann hiervon profitieren. Am Beispiel der Programmplanung wird der Ansatz vorgestellt und eine Design Challenge beschrieben.
In international comparative analyses on further education the clustering of countries is widely established. Frequently, such typologies are derived heuristically, referring to theoretical approaches or single indicators, which make it difficult to obtain a systematic overview. This contribution presents the main arguments of two theoretical approaches (welfare state regimes Esping-Andersen 1990 and varieties of capitalism Hall/Soskice 2001) that refer to indicators on the macro level for expl…