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The article introduces two commemorative articles for anniversaries of adult education providers and identifies their trivialising way of dealing with problematic parts of history. The commemorative article for the 100th anniversary of the „Heimvolkshochschule Tingleff“ plays the role of its managing director during the NS-regime down. The commemorative article on behalf of a city’s 800th anniversary dealing with the history of the Community Adult Education Centre Dresden excludes the problemat…
Die öffentliche Finanzierung für Erwachsenenbildung verlagert sich immer mehr von institutioneller Förderung zu projektförmiger Drittmittelförderung. Das Heft informiert nicht nur über neue Töpfe (neue europäische Fördergeneration!), sondern fragt kritisch nach den organisationalen Wirkungen dieser Umsteuerung. Im Produktionsbereich wurde vor Jahren das Bild der atmenden Fabrik als innovatives Organisationsmodell diskutiert, das auf wechselnde Auftragslagen adäquat reagieren kann. U. Witthaus …
Competing for Third-party Funds. Development strategies for adult education providers. Which strategic opportunities are available for adult education providers which would like to successfully attract sponsors on the third-party funds market? This article distinguishes four concepts according to an organisational theoretical perspective which are widely accepted in practice and only partially combined: (a) „flexible specialization“: the purpose is to increase the reaction period of content-bas…
