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This report provides an overview of the standards between professional and organisational logic for adult education – from the perspective of funding and continuing educational organisations, education policy and research. It also summarises various strategies for improving teaching and training, and identifies outstanding questions. It also points out the role of teaching as a construct, which largely depends on the viewer’s perspective.
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Kompetenzanforderungen an Lehrende und an pädagogisches Personal – die diese auswählen – gestellt werden, um aktuellen Herausforderungen der Weiterbildungspraxis gerecht zu werden und damit Qualität sicherzustellen.
Although trainers can be expected to be important for the success further of vocational education, there is no regulation of the qualification of trainers in Germany. A so-called train-the-trainer certificate often serves as proof of professionalism. The study describes the topics of those certificates and their frequencies. Therefore we looked at the programs of 47 providers in terms of a qualitative content analysis. The inductively generated category system contains 56 categories on three hi…
An Austrian study analysed the situation of staff with a migration history within the field of adult education. This article examines barriers and enabling conditions concerning the access to the profession and asks for the use of potential of migration biographies for activities in adult education – considering the part of professionals as well as institutions.
Anlass für dieses Themenheft ist die derzeit zu beobachtende Entwicklung politischer Konfliktlinien, die Auswirkungen auf Deutschland zeitigen könnten. Konflikte begegnen dem Menschen jeden Tag – nicht nur auf politischer und gesellschaftlicher, sondern auch auf zwischenmenschlicher Ebene. Doch was sind Konflikte eigentlich? Welche existieren innerhalb der Erwachsenenbildung? Und wie kann man lernen, sie zu bearbeiten?
Works councils handle many conflicts. This article pursues the issue how works councils acquire knowledge and competences for dealing with various conflict settings and the significance of programmes in educational institutions for work councils. To pursue the question, the author connects her research findings on learning in work conflicts to the development in practical institutional education for works councils.
The author discusses options for resolving conflicts based on the two most frequent types of conflict: aggression against seminar leaders and participants expressed by inappropriate conduct. He introduces constructive behaviour in conflicts and describes second order conflict solutions.
Der Autor plädiert angesichts der Präsenz offener und verdeckter Konflikte in der Erwachsenenbildung(-sarbeit) dafür, Konflikte wieder zum Gegenstand der Erwachsenenbildungsdiskussion zu machen. Er zeigt verschiedene Konfliktkonstellationen dieses Feldes auf und beschreibt am Beispiel der politischen Erwachsenenbildung die Relevanz vom »Konflikt« als didaktische Kategorie.
