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Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
Einführung eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems nach DIN EN ISO 9000 ff. an der Professur für Erwachsenenpädagogik der Universität Leipzig mit Zertifizierung
Der Beitrag von Peter Faulstich und Gernot Graeßner basiert auf einem Text, der für die Veröffentlichung im „Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2006“ (Reihe „Schriften der DGfE“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) vorgesehen ist. Die Autoren analysieren die Ergebnisse einer Erhebung zum aktuellen Stand der Hauptfach-Studiengänge Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Erwachsenenbildung. Sie zeigen, dass die europaweite Umstellung auf Bachelor- und Master-Abschlüsse (Bologna-…
This article investigates the internationally-comparative question how basic education policy is understood at the national level of policy formulation (policy), and how this basic education policy is – taking into account the institutional rules and responsibilities of the multi-level-system (polity) – implemented by a constellation of actors into national education policy (politics). On the basis of empirical data from the project “EU-Alpha”, the interplay of policy, polity and politics in ba…
Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
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…
Competence or authorization? PISA – a challenge also for adult education and research PISA also provokes adult education and adult pedagogy to a new evaluation of the prerequisites of participation in adult education and the meaning of “making up for” by means of adult education, of a heterogenous programme which has received less attention since the reform of education. Therefore this contribution scetches the state of the art of the compensatory education for adults (basic education, scho…
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig war ein Verfasser mehrerer pädagogischer Schriften. Des Weiteren entwickelte er das Konzept der Volkshochschule, welches sich stark an den christlichen Auffassungen, u.a. auch der Erweckung, orientierte und eine lebensweltbezogene Aufklärung, insbesondere auch für die Unterschichten in dänischer Sprache forderte.
