Iceberg further education Achievements of the graduation related further education for the mastery of transitions in the educational system Like with an iceberg, the achievements of further education are to a large extent not quite visible for the public perception. Among these are the activities of the facilitation of transitions in the educational system. The author has, within the frame of a dissertation, estimated how many certificates and graduations the German further education produces…
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Programms Alphabund wurden neue Praxiskonzepte für die Lernberatung und Diagnostik in der Alphabetisierungsarbeit entwickelt. Auf den ersten Blick erscheinen Lernberatung und Diagnostik als gegensätzlich: Lernberatung als Instrument zum Fördern und Unterstützen, Diagnostik als Instrument zum Prüfen und Selektieren. Der Band stellt demgegenüber Praxiskonzepte für Lernberatung und Diagnostik vor, auf deren Grundlage beide Handlungsweisen mit dem Ziel der Förderung praktisch zus…
Within the framework of a four-year project (2015-2018) supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and des ESF, among others, the competencies and the orientations guiding the practice of validation personnel in adult education are inquired. While most of the existing research concentrates on competency validation arrangements and instruments, the present research uses a qualitative research design to look at the actors and their practice from the perspective …
The article focuses on an empirical desideratum of research on teaching and learning in adult education – the planning of courses. The planning of courses is a complex decision-making process, which influences the teaching and learning behavior. Empirical findings of schoolteachers’ planning and results of interviews with trainers in adult education are used to identify elements and potential factors that influenced planning behavior. Based on this, the article develops research prospects and a…
The article focusses on the importance of time for the political adult education. Current socio-cultural and socio-economic challenges – in particular: the commodification and acceleration in the context of education and learning – results in a wide range of pressing time issues. However the adult education und the political education pay little attention to the importance of time. For this reason, this issue will be deepened in the article. First, the situation of the political adult education…
Wie werden Programme und Angebote für die Erwachsenenbildung geplant? Dieser Band der Lehrbuchreihe führt durch den kompletten Prozess, von der Bedarfsermittlung über Planung, Marketing und Finanzierung. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt ist das Thema Programmforschung. Studierende aus Erwachsenenbildung und Weiterbildung finden in diesem Grundlagenband alles wichtige zum Thema in kompakter, lesefreundlicher Form. Der Band eignet sich sowohl für das Bachelor- als auch für das Masterstudium. Die Neuau…
In this paper, the authors examine the setting of and working with boundaries between everyday work and innovation development, based on an empirical analysis of an innovation lab in the social economy. The lab allows intrapreneurs to learn and use entrepreneurial practices to foster social innovation. The process of boundaries setting can be made clear by the spatial structuring of performative practice, the constitution of symbolic spaces, the rhythm of divergence and convergence as well as a…
