The 4th sector of education is dominated and directed by market economical criteria while government organized adult education and lifelong learning systems for active labour market policy only have an additional function. The author discusses alternatives by intervention of education policy and isolates three types of financing systems in countries of the European Union: the market regime, the bureaucratical regime, and the mixed regime. Generally he realizes a trend towards a growing relevanc…
Skript des Vortrags von Susanne Offenbartl, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE), den sie anlässlich der AUE-Jahrestagung im September 1999 gehalten hat. Die Wissensbestände verändern sich kontinuierlich und altern immer schneller. Gleichzeitig ist eine Individualisierung der Kommunikations- und Informationsbedarfe festzustellen. Das Internet wird den Erfordernissen beider Entwicklungen gerecht. Am Beispiel des Internet-Service des DIE und zwei wei…
Consulting as an empirical deficit? Evaluation of educational institutions’ programs The article discusses the empirical relevance of consulting in adult education institutions. By evaluating the programs of institutions, it will be shown that consulting only selectively is present and thus may help to document the programmatic and theoretical discourse on the matter in a less efficient way. This lack will be interpreted as a deficit in its implementation by the respective institutions and in …
Analysing the Course of Processes in Counselling – A Desideratum Reasoning and Development of a Research Design Different processes of counselling have been a non-studied field of research in adult education so far. It is necessary for the professionalization of counselling to close this research gap by an empirical basic work, because the need for counselling is increasing. A research design is explained by this article. The methodological outline will be developed and reasoned.
Auf Einladung des Arbeitskreises Universitäre Erwachsenenbildung (AUE) diskutierten ca. 120 Teilnehmende im September 1999 über Tendenzen in der universitären Weiterbildung. Insgesamt hat die Tagung deutlich gemacht, dass sich ein grundlegender Paradigmenwechsel in der universitären Weiterbildung abzeichnet. Drei Leitthemen bestimmten die Vorträge und Diskussionen: 1. Gestufte Abschlüsse und Leistungspunkte: Dieser Trend manifestiert sich in den Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen, die sich im S…
The report introduces the topic of municipal education monitoring based on the »Aachen Declaration« on municipal educational responsibility by the German Association of Cities and Towns. The statistics on adult education centres are essential for the still limited local continuing education monitoring. Two examples (Rheingau-Taunus district and City of Trier) explicate the data benefits, which indicate strengths and weaknesses and reveal operative requirements to decision makers in institutions…
In the person of the „quality developer“, the concepts of the staff and the organisational developer merge in a common striving for more excellence. Institutions in further education that wish to take quality development into their own hands thus are defining a new temporary role that has to rely on very special competences. Elke Mathes explains about this role and adds insights on further qualification needs from the DIE course “Quality developer in institutions of adult education”.
The article provides a systematizing overview of contemporary methodological approaches and results of research on guidance and counselling. As well qualitative as quantitative approaches will be explored and concerning its insight located. Different but also complementary findings become visible. At the end, it will be argued in favour of a further elaboration of research on guidance and counselling in adult education. Therefore, it should be looked for a mutual relation between studies and a …
Das Lehrbuch bietet einen Überblick über gesellschaftliche und theoretische Rahmungen sowie über Handlungsformen professioneller Beratung in der Bildungs- und Berufsbiografie. Dabei geht die Autorin davon aus, dass Beratung die Grundlage zur individuellen Bewältigung gegenwärtiger Transformations- und Veränderungsprozesse in Gesellschaft und Arbeitswelt darstellt. Ausgehend von einer Vielzahl theoretischer Ansätze erläutert Christiane Schiersmann die konkrete Gestaltung des Beratungsprozesse…
