Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present them…
Implementing network type structures has become a widely appreciated strategy to promote actor-relationships in the field of adult and community education and to coordinate them purposefully. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on how a “successful” coordination of actor-relationships can be practically achieved. This paper offers some clues to answering the question by outlining basic characteristics of social networks and then giving reference to a recent case study from Germany.
Statistische Weiterbildungsdaten können eine gute Grundlage der Steuerung und Entwicklung von Weiterbildung sein – auf politischen Bühnen wie auch vor Ort in den Einrichtungen. Vor 50 Jahren hat man mit der systematischen datengestützten Beobachtung des Weiterbildungshandelns begonnen, als die erste Folge der Volkshochschul-Statistik erschien. Daran erinnert dieses Heft. Im Blick auf Potenzial, Perspektiven und Grenzen des Weiterbildungs-Monitorings zeigt sich: Statistiken aus Trägerperspektive…
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…
Striving for quality is at the core of pedagogical professionalism. Therefore the science of further education has to intervene in the quality discussion in two ways: Firstly, it must develop criteria by which systems of quality assurance can be compared and by which their appropriateness for the sector of further education can be evaluated. Secondly, it must inquire yet more persistently into the specifics of pedagogical quality and find out what further education science can contribute toward…
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