The perspective of administrational staff in educational organizations is barely in focus in adult education research. This paper reacts on this desideratum of research and tries to answer the following question: How does the administrational staff of Adult education organizations perceive the collaboration with the pedagogical staff? This question is answered within a qualitative research design. Therefore, the existing data of a qualitative study concerning cultures of teaching in adult educa…
The paper reviews developmental-psychological research on the (in-)stability of adult personality aspects. Big Five personality traits as well as surface characteristics are addressed. Hereby, the direction and the extent of change are compared for various personality aspects, and the influences on personality changes are discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn for the field of adult education.
A gloss on the panel discussions as a mostly joyless part of congresses and conferences. Due to nonprofessional moderation, an oversized need for harmony and the participants’ gift for languages, the format of perception of the author releases its claims, which goes as following: To stage a »fascinating« dialogue, bringing opponents together, making differences transparent or bringing about consensus
An Fallbeispielen zeigt der Autor auf, wie Wissenschaft die Praxis von Lehrkräften der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung unterstützen kann. Wissenschaft für Praxis zu nutzen, ist kein Wert an sich, sondern Ausdruck der Verantwortung von Lehrenden für das Lernen der Teilnehmenden.
Der Beitrag von Peter Faulstich und Gernot Graeßner basiert auf einem Text, der für die Veröffentlichung im „Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2006“ (Reihe „Schriften der DGfE“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) vorgesehen ist. Die Autoren analysieren die Ergebnisse einer Erhebung zum aktuellen Stand der Hauptfach-Studiengänge Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Erwachsenenbildung. Sie zeigen, dass die europaweite Umstellung auf Bachelor- und Master-Abschlüsse (Bologna-…
Firstly, the author explores the terminological field covering the outcome of educational counselling and develops beneficial dimensions, which are visualised as a network. The author stimulates the German discussion with methodological topics and research results originating in British evaluations. Scientific studies used to confirm the positive effects of educational counselling. Finally the report suggests an agenda for researching the benefits in the field of counselling in continuing edu…
Over the past 15 years, a variety of approaches have been developed in (adult) education contexts to validate formal, non-formal and informal competences and thus harness them for lifelong learning purposes. Despite the development, testing and evaluation of appropriate procedures as well as process-accompanying research and procedural clarification processes, a nationwide implementation can not be observed. It can be deduced from these findings that the low degree of implementation of correspo…
