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Das vorliegende Buch bietet theoretische Grundlagen und durch Praxis und Empirie fundiertes Wissen für professionelles Handeln in der Kulturellen Erwachsenenbildung. Es versteht sich als eine theoretisch fundierte Arbeitshilfe für hauptamtliche Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen in den Einrichtungen: Ideen für die Planung und Umsetzung von Angeboten in der Kultureller Erwachsenenbildung sind ebenso enthalten wie Grundlagen und Argumente zur bildungspolitischen Legitimation Kultureller Erwachsenenbildun…
Auf Basis eines vorläufigen Datenstandes der wbmonitor Umfrage 2020 werden Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf Weiterbildungsanbieter bis zum Sommer 2020 beschrieben. Von dem Lockdown ab Mitte März waren Weiterbildungsveranstaltungen unmittelbar betroffen und konnten bis zu dessen Aufhebung nicht in Präsenzform stattfinden. Während durchschnittlich vier von zehn zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits laufenden Veranstaltungen vor allem durch die Umstellung auf Online-Formate fortgesetzt werden konnten, m…
Facing todays technological development, one of the central issues further education has to deal with is how to support employees in handling the changes their work activities are subjected to and in shaping these changes. Six company case studies were conducted in logistics and in stationary retailing in order to understand how work activities change on the operative level and what effects might be observed regarding the employees’ competence development. Based on a subject-related approach th…
Organizations function as the central generators of complexity in modern society by regulating and constantly increasing the opportunities for simultaneous action. The paper conceives populism as a socially widespread form of criticism of this organized complexity and systematically differentiates it from fundamentalisms and conspiracy theories as important complexity reducing interpretations of modernity. The structural logic of organizations and their role in society is analyzed in relation t…
Basic civic education is discussed as a substantial pillar in the discussion on basic education, although little is known about the basic civic skills of adults with low literacy skills. In this article based on the results of LEO 2018 and with logistic regression models, the thesis is examined that low-literate adults assess their own civic skills as rather low and thus exclude themselves from the political field. It is shown that even when controlling for various socio-economic factors, low-l…
Right-wing populism has strongly polarizing effects in politics, education and science—a problem which this article aims to adress. Instead of claiming a demarcation between science and education on the one hand and right-wing populist ideology on the other, we initially focus on continuities. At the same time, we are concerned with finding a critical distance towards right-wing populism. Using the theoretical framework of boundary-work we therefore analyse a case of right-wing populist educati…
The contribution aims at outlining a proposition as to how institutions of further education may be typed and systematically increasingly differentiated within the framework of developments on the landscape of further education. In addition to explaining how this differentiation could be achieved, the article also offers a broadening of the current perspective of typologies of institutions by including adjunctive education as a category of typification. The approach is thus anchored at the inte…
