Recent empirical data show that 7.5 million adults in Germany do not reach a minimum level of reading and writing skills and, therefore, are classified as functional illiterates. However, the social and educational background of this part of the population differs considerably from wide-spread perceptions of the target group as it is represented in courses for illiterates in adult education. While the latter normally showed heavy learning problems at school, the wider group normally passed scho…
This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…
In adult education as an almost deregulated educational sector, governance happens indirectly via support programs and educational initiatives. Money plays a central role as a medium of governance and is also used to promote quality management systems. Quality management itself unrolls a governing capacity in the adult education system: in doing so, different models stress different starting points for quality development. This paper responds to the question which factors influence the developm…
Education reports are a core element of the new governance model in the educational system: they provide data to support political decision-makers in evidence-based governance. For that purpose, indicators are developed to monitor context, input, processes and outcomes of educational efforts. This article analyzes actual report segments on further education in various report systems with respect to the picture of these dimensions of further education. The applicability of the existing indicator…
Das Buch zeichnet Struktur und Wandel organisierter Weiterbildung seit der wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Bildungsreform der 1970er Jahre nach. Insbesondere geht es um die Wirkungen zentraler Modernisierungsstrategien wie der Institutionalisierung, der Professionalisierung und der Qualitätssicherung der Weiterbildung. Dazu wurde ein regionales Panel von Weiterbildungsanbietern mit Hilfe von Programmanalysen über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahrzehnten erfasst. Eine solche längsschnittliche Vollerhebung erla…
