The author describes the education and development of men as a hot topic in social offside between dominant masculinity, marginalised movement of man and aspiring women’s education and development. The historical and political starting points for men’s education are different to those of women’s education: Men have to become conscious of the need of giving up private and public privileges while women are profiting of their grandmothers’ successful fights for equality. Various resistances agains…
The author describes and evaluates actual streamings of men’s studies at the background – and as a result – of the history and development of women’s studies. Ursula Müller’s main questions are: How is gender construction defined by men’s studies? Is it critical research in the sense of social criticism and self reflection? Her answer: It depends on the author. The position of Ursula Müller is grounding on the concept of Robert W. Connell’s plaedoyer for taking serious men as a specific social …
Surdu berichtet über die Entwicklungen in der Erwachsenenbildung in Rumänien, die einen hohen politischen Stellenwert für Demokratisierung und Beschäftigungsfähigkeit hat. Er berichtet von der besonderen Problemlage in Rumänien im Übergang vom Kommunismus zum Kapitalismus und beschreibt, welche besonderen Lösungen eben deshalb hier gefunden werden.
Since the formation of regional entities in the modern age, the concept of „region“ has been interpreted in different ways. While in the after-war years attempts at strengthening structurally weak regions by attracting industry from without (the „exogenous“ strategy) were successful, nowadays the „endogenous“ strategy is becoming relevant, which builds on efforts from within the region. The author maintains that the success of „learning“ regions will depend on the efficiency of the regions’ edu…
Rudolf interpretiert die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage, die anlässlich der Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 von Emnid bei 1005 Personen durchgeführt wurde. Sein Fazit: politische Bildung muss auch auf Aktualität reagieren, ohne sich die Themen von den Medien aufdrängen zu lassen. Ein Bedarf ist vorhanden.
Management in Nonprofit-Organisationen stellt besondere Anforderungen und fordert spezielle Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten. Die Autorin stellt das Verbandsmanagement Institut (VMI) der Universität Freiburg in der Schweiz vor, das seit 25 Jahren in diesem Segment Forschungsarbeit leistet. Hier wurde das „Freiburger Management-Modell für NPO“ entwickelt. Seit diesem Jahr wird ein berufsbegleitendes Studium angeboten, das sich an Teilnehmer aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum wendet.
The role of regions is changing, as there is an increased tendency towards economic competition amongst them. Networking promises to provide competitive advantages. However, attempts at establishing and successfully employing networks both in the sector of private economy and in the public/communal sector meet with various problems and, notwithstanding their potential, will rather be able to provide solutions where a consensus seems realistic, whereas conflictive processes will continue to requ…
From 2002 on the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be sponsoring 80 regional networks in the context of the „Learning Regions – promotion of networks“ programme. This programme will be scientifically monitored by a consortium formed by the German Institute of Adult Education (DIE), the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), and the universities of Duisburg and Munich. The author will be in charge of the overall scientific supervision. In his article he pres…
