While belief research has become an integral part of the educational research agenda, it has been uneven. One neglected area is the beliefs of adult education teachers. Focusing on five such teachers working in adult basic education and teaching numeracy in Switzerland, this exploratory study uses different data to describe their beliefs about numeracy and its teaching. It is shown that this group holds clearly different views from other groups of adult teachers and it is argued that extending …
Participation in adult education and learning motivation In this introductory contribution firstly the history of the educational sociology of research in adult in Germany is reconstructed in keywords. The current discussion on social exclusion/inclusion is scetched here and further deepened in the following contributions of this book. In the final chapter of this contribution the results of an educational biographical study are presented. Here nine types of participation in adult education …
In diesem Essay wird die Konjunktur der Evaluation als zentrales Mass von Bildungsmanagement und Qualitätssicherung kritisch hinterfragt und verschiedene Evaluationstypen unterschieden. Danach gibt es: "Systemevaluation zum Zweck von Spar-, Abbau oder Umbaumassnahmen; immanenten Evaluation und Forschung zum Zwecke der Steuerung pädagogischen Handelns: Evaluation zu Legitimationszwecken, Evaluation in betrieblichen Transferprozessen zur Begleitung und Sicherung von Bildungsverwertung." Gege…
Personal and organisational educational counselling The need for support in the search for tailor-made educational programmes is growing along with the ongoing individualisation of educational pathways. Counselling of individuals and organisations is gaining importance in this context. This issue focuses both on new theories as well as educational policy developments, devoting attention to current challenges in various fields of action: the training of vocational counsellors, research of coun…
Wie hängen Bildung, Macht und Kultur zusammen? Sollten kulturelle Unterschiede in Bildungsveranstaltungen thematisiert werden? Hierüber und über Fragen der Aneignung, der Expertise und der Repräsentation spricht Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Dr.in Alisha M. B. Heinemann, Professorin für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Bildungsverläufe und Diversität an der Universität Bremen.
