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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.
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Inclusion – An Organisational Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part 1 The report evaluates the option of offering inclusive adult education at adult education centres on a larger scale. The compatibility of the new policy statement in adult education centres and the principle of inclusion are pointed out. Implications of the concept of inclusion are presented, which lead to the conclusion that inclusion can only be implemented with a comprehensive organisational developmen…
An Austrian study analysed the situation of staff with a migration history within the field of adult education. This article examines barriers and enabling conditions concerning the access to the profession and asks for the use of potential of migration biographies for activities in adult education – considering the part of professionals as well as institutions.
The results from the PISA study and the future of adult education The results of the PISA study have made it clear how urgent the individual as well as the society as a whole depends on a secure system for after school learning and a secure system for lifelong learning. In the contribution perspectives of the development of the qualification demand on behalf of the employment system are scetched with a view to globalization tendencies. In front of this background it is necessary to filter th…
Die Wissensbausteine decken die in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung zentralen Themen- und Begriffsfelder ab und bieten in ihrer Gesamtheit einen Überblick über das jeweilige Handlungsfeld. Sie vermitteln wissenschaftlich fundiertes und praxisrelevantes Grundlagen- und Handlungswissen, das die Bedarfe der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer im Hinblick auf ihr pädagogisches Handeln berücksichtigt. Sie richten sich an Lehrkräfte in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, die frei-, neben- oder hauptberuflich tä…
Wann gilt Weiterbildungspolitik als erfolgreich? Was können Politik und andere Weiterbildungsakteure tun, damit Weiterbildungspolitik gelingt? Die Autorin weist auf alte und neue Risiken hin und legt Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen für den Erfolg dar.
Critical adult education Adult education in the horizon of contemporary societal criticism The essay contacts basic lines of the early critical theory in order to connect it with power analytical surveys on neoliberal restructuring of education. Foucaults analytics of power serves as a guide to decipher the current self-organisation discourse in adult education as part of a power-knowledge-complex. Thereby the present reform strategies manifest themselves as gouvernemental arrangements for …
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…
Qualität / Qualitäten: Die Qualitätsfrage umfasst alle Bereiche der Weiterbildung. Lehr-/Lernprozesse, ihre Organisation und Rahmenbedingungen stehen in ihrer Gesamtheit auf dem Qualitätsprüfstand. Das Heft beleuchtet wesentliche Entwicklungslinien: Vergleichbarkeit von Qualitätsmodellen (Schiersmann); Personalentwicklung nach innen (Mathes) und externe Beratung (Ehses/Zech); bestehende Qualitäts-Labels im Ausland (Jermann); bundespolitische Maßnahmen für mehr Qualität durch das BMBF (Pahl). …
