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Im vorliegenden Heft werden in gebotener Kürze einige neuere Ansätze und Ergebnisse der Teilnahme- und Motivationsforschung in der Weiterbildung vorgestellt. Die Zahl der Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema ist insgesamt begrenzt, auch wenn es noch einige weitere Arbeiten außer den hier präsentierten gibt: Teilnahme-, Beteiligungs- und Motivationsforschung sind in der Regel empirisch aufwändige und teure Verfahren. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass hier durchaus neuere, interessante Ergebnisse vorliegen.
The reference to “classical” authors dominates the literature on organizational learning to an extent which is comparably large within the field of organizational sciences. After briefly reviewing the state of the art of theories of organizational learning, this article introduces a new model of organizational learning which builds on Knud Illeris’ “learning triangle”. Basically, it adopts the general structure of this triangle and transforms the crucial concepts of Illeris’ approach to analogo…
The objective of this empirical study is to provide an overview of the strategies and measures that further education institutions employ concerning migration and diversity. Focusing on organization-wide approaches which foster diversity, the study analyses the level of organization and management, human resources and the spectrum of educational opportunities. The survey was addressed to public educational institutions that are legally recognized as well as to private institutions. The empirica…
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…
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
This article presents didactic approaches to financial literacy using the example of the CurVe project (debt counselling as a starting point for basic education – curricular integration and transitions) which was launched at the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in March 2013. The project analyses the connection between excessive debt and basic educational needs. Its focus is on participative didactics and its goals include the strengthening of basic education through the conceptualisa…
The social milieus and the slowed down expansion of education Going out from the fact that the expansion of education in the last decades has not enabled an equality of educational opportunity, the contribution explores the development of the social mileus and their specific educational behaviour on the basis of the theory approach of Bourdieu.
Program analyses are considered as genuine methods of research in further education. The basic understanding is that innovation is not only an invention of new methods, but also an implementation of existing methods in new ways. The most important approaches of program analysis will be presented and discussed concerning their alteration. This is also relevant for qualitative research in further education in general.
North-west passages between body, emotion and cognition in pedagogy On the unity and difference of perceiving, feeling, thinking and imagination powers in learning- and educational processes Setting out from the point of different newly theory approaches, especially in the integrative therapy, the contribution makes the holistic way of learning- and educational processes a subject of discussion.
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Bildungssystemen hängt davon ab, wie gut die Übergänge zwischen Sektoren bewältigt werden können. Für die Weiterbildung stellen sich an Übergängen vielfältige Herausforderungen. Sie kann durch Überbrückungsangebote den Transfer für Benachteiligte erleichtern, an Übergängen beratend tätig werden oder Fortbildungen für Professionelle an Übergängen konzipieren. Das Heft will klären, wie sehr das Konzept des „lebenslangen Lernens“ Durchlässigkeit hierzulande befördert und …