Mit der Verbindung von Professionalisierung und Humor in einem Heft soll nicht der Pfad der erwachsenenpädagogischen Ernsthaftigkeit verlassen werden. Schon der jüngere Seneca hat erkannt: "Res severa verum gaudium" - Humor ist eine ernste Angelegenheit. Ist Humor vielleicht eine professionelle Basisqualifikation des pädagogischen Personals?
Schwerpunktthema ist die Vermittlung von Wissenschaft und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung. Dabei gibt es besondere Schwierigkeiten, die vor allem daraus resultieren, dass die Wissenschaft von der Erwachsenenbildung noch sehr jung ist, dass der Kernbereich erwachsenenpädagogischer Praxis undeutlich ist und dass Erwachsenenbildung bei steigender gesellschaftlicher Relevanz in föderalen und subsidiären Prozessen verbleibt. Die einzelnen Beiträge dieses Heftes versuchen, aus der Sicht wissenschaftlic…
Als „DIE spezial“ werden in lockerer Folge – durchschnittlich ein Band jährlich –Veröffentlichungen profiliert, die für die Weiterbildungslandschaft grundlegend und nachhaltig sind. Die hier publizierten Inhalte sind für alle Akteure der Weiterbildungslandschaft wichtig, entspringen oft empirischen und renommierten Forschungsvorhaben und lassen besondere handlungsleitende oder steuerungsrelevante Wirkungen erwarten.
New Perspectives for Planning and Realization of Programmes. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part II The report focuses on the challenges of the inclusive paradigm in programme planning and implementation. Four strategic approaches are presented which facilitate the access to inclusive adult education. (1) Access to existing programmes needs to be generally facilitated for people with disabilities. (2) Cultural education is especially predestined to be in the focus. (3) People with …
Caught between Two Stools. Adult Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities The report analyses connecting factors for the manifestation of an inclusive approach in adult education for people with mental disabilities. It presents existing organisational forms and qualification paths. The core challenge is seen in the development of an inclusive professionalism which combines the expertise and competences existing in both general adult education and help for the disabled. The develop…
“Precarious forms of work”, “wages near the poverty level” and “demand for minimum wages” – these are key words reflecting the status of continuing education personnel and the concurrent debate. The report focuses on the equality of wages in continuing education, taking up the business economical concept of “proportional equality of wages” as a result of the various references to the current debate in the field of adult and continuing education. The principles of market conformity, equal qualif…
The report contributes statements by educational counsellors indicating their self-expectations and objectives and their attempt to obtain a high beneficial level of counselling in continuing education. At the same time, the ratio of the competences of counselling personnel in continuing education to their self-defined objectives is observed. This qualitative empiricism backs the analysis of the location of continuing educational counselling as a location in the triangle between public expectat…
A new profession for trainers of vocational education »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)« The contribution reports on the context, concept and perspectives of a pilot further education for »Professional pedagogue for training and further education (by the chambers of commerce)«, which is currently being tested in Bavaria. It ensures especially the pedagogical qualification of the trainers which is urgently required today and it supports t…
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