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This article provides an overview of the debate on learning environments and learning locations within adult education research; the authors use a historical review of main research topics in order to understand current learning environments and recent theoretical and empirical discussions. The term of learning environments or learning locations has been introduced into research on adult education in the 1970ies; since this time, each following decade can be characterized by several specific re…
Begriffklärungen rund um das Thema Organisation.
At first sight, Ortfried Schäffter’s thesis looks trivial: a »pedagogical« organisation is an organisation that concentrates on focussing the interplay of all its energies on the success of its specific – namely, pedagogical – work. Examined more carefully, however, this means that a pedagogical organisation is one that furthers learning. Its success cannot be measured in terms of numbers of charges taken care of, duration of care, or hours spent in caregiving or counselling, nor i…
The present discourse in further education is recurringly concerned with cultures, systems and networks. Karin Dollhausen aims at furthering this discussion by drawing a neat line of definition between these crucial terms under the aspect of the sociology of organisations. She goes on to explain what each of the terms does or should mean for public institutions of further education: »culture« – seen as the system of relationships within an organisation – sharpens the view of internal communicat…
Keeping an eye on the practice of management in further education institutions, the observer will encounter a rich variety of changing management strategies. Johannes Hartkemeyer, himself director of a Volkshochschule, scrutinizes past crazes and sets up guidelines for dealing with ever-changing fashions on the one hand, and organisational development on the other hand. His advice is to be a »learning organisation«, watch out for »mental models« of the organisation in a permanent process of ref…
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Organisation in der Erwachsenenbildung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute.
Qualitätsentwicklung ist Leitungsaufgabe. Welche Anforderungen an Rolle und Funktion von Leitung folgen daraus? Was sollten Leitende tun, was sollten sie lassen bei der Gestaltung und Steuerung von Qualitätsentwicklung in Weiterbildungsorganisationen? Wolfgang Nötzold beantwortet die Fragen einerseits in Anlehnung an das Qualitäts- und Organisationsmodell der EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) sowie unter Berücksichtigung der vielfältigen Erfahrungen von Weiterbildungsorganisatio…
