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Theme networks and the systematic generation of the new A systematization using the example of the learning regions Meta structures in the form of content orientated “topic net groups” offers a possibility for communication and exchange between the regional projects in the program “Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks”. Thereby they build a field of communication in which practice problems and their solutions appear and therefore they can be brought to discussion. Thus topic n…
Strategies for the strengthening of networking work Selected results from the context of the programme of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research “Learning culture and competency development” A large number of publications on the subject matter of network are engaged with the conditions of the initiation as well as the management of networks. An issue that has so far been neglected in research however poses the question of the strengthening of networking work. The initiation of netw…
System reflexive evaluation of networks and network programmes A methodological perspective To contextualise and substantiate evaluation is a claim which the evaluation of the programme „Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) formulates. But which basic approaches and proceedings are suitable to consolidate the item `networks` with suitable theoretical complexity and methodologically reflective evaluation? In this contr…
Research on learning of distance learners An empirical insight into the practice of distance learning Albeit the high relevance of distance education and distance studies in the field of lifelong learning strategies, there is only few knowledge on the actual process in which the distant student learns. This article presents and discusses the results of a research project, in which distance students filled in questionnaires concerning their learning several times a week over a period of thre…
Further education networks from the view of the sociological neo-socialisms The contribution analyses chances and perspectives which are opened up by applying the theory of sociological neo-institutionalism to network research carried out within the field of adult education. The theory is understood as complementary to those network theories and concepts which are referred to within research already. In a first step basic assumptions and concepts of the sociological neo-institutionalism are …
Seit 2003 fördern Bund und Länder gemeinsam das Projekt, welches sich länderübergreifend für die Qualität von Weiterbildung einsetzt. Nach einer Phase der Entwicklung und Implementierung des Qualitätsmanagementsystems der „Lernerorientierten Qualitätstestierung in der Weiterbildung“ (LQW 2) standen seit 2003 die Fortsetzung der Professionalisierung der Weiterbildung durch Gutachterausbildungen und Support für teilnehmende Einrichtungen im Mittelpunkt. Von Beginn an wurde das Projekt wissen-scha…
Der REPORT thematisiert Netzwerke unter vier Aspekten, die in der Diskussion aktuell bedeutsam sind: die Beziehung zwischen Netzwerken und soziologisch orientierten Institutionalisierungsdebatten, die systemreflexive Evaluation von Netzwerkarbeit, die konkrete Realisierung von Netzwerken mit Bezug auf verbindende Themen und die Problematik der Verstetigung und Nachhaltigkeit von Netzwerken. Die Beiträge des Hefte nehmen Bezug auf die laufende wissenschaftliche Diskussion, aber auch auf die konk…
More popular than its reputation Learning success controls in adult education The research project called “LeKo“ of the European Federation for Catholic Adult Education (KBE), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has analysed how learning success controls can be included in all areas of adult education and it has analysed which attitudes participants have towards it. The first empirical results are presented here. Thereafter the pedagogical-instrumental value is …
Das finnische Bildungssystem hat aufgrund seines erfolgreichen Abschneidens bei internationalen Vergleichsstudien hohe Aufmerksamkeit erzielt. Dieses Länderporträt gibt einen Einblick in das „Bildungs-Musterland“: Dargestellt wird die finnische Weiterbildungslandschaft und ihre Einbettung im Gesamtbildungssystem anhand von Daten und Erläuterungen zu zentralen Systemelementen wie Recht und Finanzierung, Angebotsstruktur, Weiterbildungspersonal und Teilnehmenden. Finnland verfügt über ein fläche…
