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Weiterbildungseinrichtungen haben das Problem, ihr Angebot zwischen pädagogischem Anspruch und wirtschaftlichem Druck positionieren zu müssen. Diese qualitativ-empirische Untersuchung zeigt, welche Faktoren diese Entscheidung leiten und an welchen Wertmaßstäben sie sich orientiert. Dabei unterscheidet die Autorin drei "Planungskulturen" nach ihrem Maß an Dominanz des Wirtschaftlichen bzw. des Pädagogischen. Der Autorin gelingt es, auch eher verdeckte Motive des Planungshandelns an die Oberfläch…
Vienna’s adult education centres have developed a frame curriculum which focuses on the eight European key competences in continuing education with consideration of national and European educational strategies as well as the European Qualification Framework. The report focuses on the frame curriculum’s key elements and its contact points with the National Qualification Framework – taking the programme area of art and culture as an example. Cultural awareness and artistic competence as a key com…
Despite a relatively similar education system, the way how people can get a qualification for adult and continuing education is different in Germany and Switzerland. Germany has established an academic track within educational sciences with the focus on planning and management. Switzerland follows a vocational track with a basic qualification for teaching adults that could be extended by qualifications within the vocational system for positions in planning and management. This paper analyses th…
The product clinic – a method to plan demand-oriented planning of courses and programmes for continuing higher education Continuing higher education is facing the challenge of having to react to heterogenous target groups and having to position itself in the competitive market of further education. In order to be able to plan demand-oriented programms for further education, knowledge of the addressees´ specific educational needs is required. Product clinics as an innovative method of market …
Programs of further education reflect societal interpretations of education and are the result of professional pedagogical action. Research on programs of further education and on the underlying planning processes is educational research that reconstructs educational concepts in a phenomenological manner and that provides a knowledge base for decisions that need to be negotiated by society. In this context, program-planning models constitute partial perspectives on program planning. One goal of…
Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre wird auch in der Weiterbildung verstärkt über die Verwendung von Kennzahlen zur Steuerung von Einrichtungen diskutiert. Sie spielen bei der Ziel- und Ergebnissteuerung auf der Basis von Produktbeschreibungen eine große Rolle. Wie aber geht man um mit dem Vorwurf und der Problematik mangelnder Validität und Reliabiltität solcher quantitativer Beschreibungssysteme komplexer Leistungen, z. B. von kommunalen Weiterbildungszentren? Die Autoren Martin Brüggemeier, Wolfgang K…
