Netzwerke erfahren als Organisations- und Kooperationsform gegenwärtig in der Weiterbildung eine hohe bildungspolitische Aufmerksamkeit. Wolfgang Jütte legt seiner Forschungsarbeit einen analytischen Netzwerkbegriff zu Grunde. Seine empirische Netzwerkanalyse, die erste dieser Art für die Weiterbildung überhaupt, verdeutlicht das dichte Geflecht von Kommunikations- und Interaktionsbeziehungen und ihre Funktions- und Wirkungsweisen in einer lokal-regionalen Institutionenlandschaft. Der Autor erm…
The historiography of adult education has painted an almost entirely optimistic picture of enlightenment until today. The actors are defined as people who are willing to learn and capable of being educated. Thanks to the advances in the enlightenment process they mature into responsible citizens. Sources based on individual history, like the ones presented in the “Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde” (1783-1793), are not taken into consideration. In his role as editor of the periodical magazine, …
The following report focuses on the issue of recording the impact of learning in adult and continuing education. It depicts the complexity of empirical-analytical impact and sensitizes for a differentiated access of adult educational research, based on the demand for evidence-based practice and education policy, which increases the pressure to conduct research on valid data on the impact of educational activities. This is substantiated, inter alia, due to the complex topic and the particulariti…
