Quality testing and organisational development The project QUEST (developing quality, controlling, testing) It is reported of the model, implementation and results of a project for quality testing (QUEST). It collected the concepts, approaches and experiences – in terms of quality assurance - at several folk high schools and prepared the implementation of the model test of Bund-Laender-Commission (BLK) on learner orientated quality assurance in further education networks.
Which (organisational and/or staff) knowledge is excluded in quality management? Setting out from the point of the finding of a scepticism towards the implementation of quality management in the area of education, the author formulates a thesis that shows the context of education, knowledge and quality management.
Learning and acting - theses from the subject-orientated perspective It is sketched, by means of a few basic language-philosophical deliberations on the understanding and term of the acting subject, that the pre-assumption of a narrow connection of learning and application of the learnt in acting of the participants is not appropriate.
Transfer of information and knowledge in development of organisations projects The contribution shows with an example of a project, how it dealt with the organisational development of educational institutions and how the transfer can be organised in an extensive way.
Acting, knowledge: action controlling knowledge or simply proficiency? The contribution exposes the figure of the action-lead knowledge and connects with the current discourse on knowledge and proficiency and the therewith linked competence forms.
North-west passages between body, emotion and cognition in pedagogy On the unity and difference of perceiving, feeling, thinking and imagination powers in learning- and educational processes Setting out from the point of different newly theory approaches, especially in the integrative therapy, the contribution makes the holistic way of learning- and educational processes a subject of discussion.
Sustainable learning Insights into a panel study under the category “emotionality in learning processes" After clarification of the term "sustainable learning", it is discussed by means of empirical material of a present research project to what extent emotional factors play a role in sustainable learning.
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.