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Iller, Carola; Sixt, Carola: Adult education providers as a “steady counterpart” for adult education in small and medium sized companies Results of case studies in companies concerning the needs analysis of small and medium sized companies show that the service offers for adult education should not be restricted to the analysis of the need for adult education. Additionally the companies should be supported when choosing their strategical site and the planning and implementation of reorganisa…
Hanft, Anke; Zentner, Tim: Qualification and personnel development – a competence gap in adult education institutions? Results of an empirical study on qualification of staff in adult education institutions The contribution analyses how adult education institutions and universities prepare their staff with education and training for changed structural requirements and reforms. In the centre are two studies of German state universities and public adult education institutions in the country N…
Dietrich, Stephan; Herr, Monika: Organisational development and new learning cultures The theme “new teaching and learning cultures” is a thematic focus in the professional discourse of adult education for a few years already. One consequence of the hightened attention is an increasingly differentiated understanding of what can be regarded as the ”new teaching and learning cultures”. It can be observed that the treatment of the theme does not allow a restriction on the questions of didactics…
Ehses, Christiane; Zech, Rainer: Good organisation – a contribution to the self-conception of the adult education profession Quality standards were found on the empirical basis of analysis of consultancy cases as well as group discussions with heads and consultants of adult education organisations. These quality standards can be the precondition for a comparability of organisations and they can also be quality standards for their organisation’s evaluation by internal or external evaluators a…
Küchler, Felicitas von: Trials of innovation and development of the pedagogical professionality of the consultancy system The central terms of the framegiving political education programme are presented. Scetched are the the implicit requirements of the innovation consultancy as well as the principles of work that were developed during the concept of the scientific councelling for the support of the innovation consultancy. With the background of the current social scientific professional co…
Arnold, Rolf; Lermen, Markus: The systematic of the need: „It is actually about something quite different“ For professionals in the departments of adult education the question of the different starting points, strategies and methods of needs analysis, respectively of making information on needs accessible, has an important role on the way into a market orientated adult education. The question of need sometimes grows into a meaning of large dimension, which makes the impression that this emp…
Statistische Weiterbildungsdaten können eine gute Grundlage der Steuerung und Entwicklung von Weiterbildung sein – auf politischen Bühnen wie auch vor Ort in den Einrichtungen. Vor 50 Jahren hat man mit der systematischen datengestützten Beobachtung des Weiterbildungshandelns begonnen, als die erste Folge der Volkshochschul-Statistik erschien. Daran erinnert dieses Heft. Im Blick auf Potenzial, Perspektiven und Grenzen des Weiterbildungs-Monitorings zeigt sich: Statistiken aus Trägerperspektive…
Für Studierende der Erwachsenenbildung wurde das Werk binnen zehn Jahren zum Klassiker. In die überarbeitete Neuauflage wurden nicht nur Entwicklungen der neunziger Jahre aufgenommen, sie strukturiert die Bereiche und Facetten der Weiterbildung (Theorien, Methoden, Werte und Normen, Geschichte, Internationalität, Politik, Institutionen und Management) noch klarer als zuvor und bietet in zwei Kapiteln Hilfen für Studium und Praxis. Das Buch empfiehlt sich als Studientext durch ein lesefreundlich…
