Der Beitrag von Peter Faulstich und Gernot Graeßner basiert auf einem Text, der für die Veröffentlichung im „Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2006“ (Reihe „Schriften der DGfE“, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften) vorgesehen ist. Die Autoren analysieren die Ergebnisse einer Erhebung zum aktuellen Stand der Hauptfach-Studiengänge Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Erwachsenenbildung. Sie zeigen, dass die europaweite Umstellung auf Bachelor- und Master-Abschlüsse (Bologna-…
Einführung eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems nach DIN EN ISO 9000 ff. an der Professur für Erwachsenenpädagogik der Universität Leipzig mit Zertifizierung
Thriller series with top class actors of the German television occasionally play teachers and learners in adult education settings. And they use the cliche of the organised adult education as a place for problematic customized services. The author watched several different thriller series and advises to take note of the transported image in a sober way: teachers and learners of adult education will have to live with being portrayed in television thrillers as fogy or suspect figures. At the same…
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
The book provides an overview of the current situation in Adult and Continuing Education in Austria. At the beginning stands an introduction into the Austrian education system together with a delineation of the historical evolution of Adult and Continuing Education. The portrait thoroughly informs about the legal foundations, governance approaches as well as institutions, quality assurance, financing, provision and participation. Moreover, the occupational field and strategies for professionali…
Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
