Teaching is fun. But teaching and learning situations bear the potential for conflict. With this book, the author elaborates on potential catalysts for conflict and provides strategies to professionally cope with these situations. While presenting best practice examples, he ponders alternative courses of action and delivers help for confident and competent teaching. The author also conveys concise background information on group processes. Because of its practical relevance, the book is not onl…
It is controversial whether vocational basic and continuing education is substitutable or complementary. This report approaches the issue from an entrepreneurial perspective with a special focus on company sizes and provides empirical results on the basis of the IAB-Betriebspanel (representative employer survey). The valuations of a bivariate probit model also indicate the dependency of complementary and substitutional correlations on the individual company size.
Handeln und Forschen werden oftmals getrennt gedacht, doch sind sie in vielen Tätigkeitsfeldern der Erwachsenenbildung miteinander verbunden. Professionelles erwachsenenpädagogisches Handeln basiert nicht nur auf theoretischem Wissen, sondern erfordert auch eigene Forschungstätigkeit. In diesem Lehrbuch erläutern die Autorinnen den Zusammenhang von Handeln und Forschen. Dabei wird das Potenzial von Forschen und Forschung für die erwachsenenpädagogische Praxis wie auch für die individuelle Profe…
The author pursues the issue whether gender equity has been achieved in continuing educational participation. According to Friebel, this question can only be answered if the life and work contexts are considered as a biographic regulative of the participation in continuing education. The underlying empirical data is based on the longitudinal study »Hamburger Biografie- und Lebenslaufpanel« (HBLP), in which findings about the correlation of gender, parenthood and participation in continuing educ…
Educational research is often focused on biographies. Literacy and basic education frequently use knowledge about biographies as a means for educational support within the scope of catch-up education (“second chance”). The article discusses how biographically generated knowledge can be transferred into pedagogical practice. The authors give up on the idea of a direct “utilization” of biographical insights into practical work – the yield is rather to indirectly stimulate and irritate professiona…
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”.
Within the process of socio-political transition adult education is an important tool for Eastern Europeans to orientate themselves in their rapidly changing social environment and to find new professional perspectives. Nevertheless, there are many obstacles blocking the way to the participation of all ethnic groups of the former Soviet Union in adult education courses. The article intends to show that besides various objective reasons, e.g. the disastrous economical situation, there are sever…
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit entstand im Rahmen des Projekts Beratungsforschung rund um den ProfilPASS am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. Auf der Basis einer internetgestützten Befragung, an der sich insgesamt 709 ProfilPASS-Beraterinnen und -Berater beteiligten, wurden insbesondere die organisationalen Bedingungen von Beratung untersucht. Hierbei konnten statistische Zusammenhänge im Hinblick auf finanzielle, personelle zeitliche u…
