On the generation of company relevant knowledge of staff of small and medium-sized companies A praxeological-empirical look at the organisation company Setting out from the point of results of an empirical research project the praxeological ratio of knowledge and action in the process of the generation of relevant knowledge in small and medium-sized companies is presented.
Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.
Maxims as a "soft" instrument for quality assurance in honorary organised adult education It is reported of the results of a model project of rural adult education that had the aim of developing close to practice quality criteria for honorary staff in this field.
Educational management as constellation of action comb By means of empirical results on action of management in adult educational institutions and -organisations in this contribution it is worked out that management is linked to a term of education and is ingrained into the institution specifics.
Meaning and function of the concept "employability" in education-political documents of the European Union After a short reconstruction of the evolvement of the social-political dimension since the 1990s, the textual dimension and the function of the concept of employability in the labour market, employment policy as well as the educational political discourse of the European Union are analysed. Considered are with it the changes of the controlling instruments of European politics with regar…
Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
The individual and society today On the relevance of actor-network-theory, post-academic science and self-directed learning Introduced are deliberations on a post-academic science that came into being by the societal change as well as the requirements concerning self-directed learning in future.
Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
