{"title":"Volunteer Activities in Continuing Education Facilities – Significance, Challenges and Organizational Consequences","authors":"Timm C. Feld","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0108","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of volunteering is significant for continuing education in a dual way. First of all, publicly supported continuing education facilities are expected to provide education and qualifications demanded by the target group of volunteer workers. Secondly, the significance is also especially reflected in the contribution of volunteers’ work to the performance of many of these very same continuing education facilities. Among other duties, volunteers teach classes, take on moderating functions or play active board roles in these facilities, which frequently operate as associations. Participation of volunteers and their integration in continuing education facilities was not only a meaningful aspect for a long time, but also taken for granted. In the perspective of the facilities there were enough appropriately qualified candidates for staffing volunteer areas of activity. However, due to societal transformation and modernization processes, volunteering for some time has been undergoing perceptible structural and functional changes.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125043204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cordula Löffler & Jens Korfkamp (Hg.): Handbuch zur Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung Erwachsener.","authors":"D. Klinkhammer","doi":"10.7788/IJBE-2017-0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/IJBE-2017-0110","url":null,"abstract":"Im Kapitel vier werden die länderspezifischen Befunde entlang der drei Benchmarkkriterien Politikformulierung, -implemetation und -finanzierung einer synoptischen Darstellung zugeführt, ehe in Kapitel fünf schließlich der Versuch einer Einordnung der Studie in die Debatte unternommen wird. Leider wird dabei ‚zu kurz gesprungen’, geraten doch etwa die vielzähligen Arbeiten aus dem Netzwerk ‚Policy Studies in Adult Education’ der European Society for Research on the Education of Adults’ (ESREA) überhaupt nicht in den Blick.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134481343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalization and its Main Challenges in Comparative (Adult) Education","authors":"Antoni Verger","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0105","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization can be defined as a constitutive process of increasing interdependence between people, territories and organizations that is advancing in different domains (economic, political, cultural and so on) (Held et al. 2000). Globalization, together with the competitive pressures and the re-scaling dynamics that are associated to it, have introduced multiple challenges and transformations in the education policy field. To name a few of these, in a global economy, education systems are pressured to supply the labor market with new and changing skills; people and companies increasingly invest privately in training initiatives and during longer periods of their life cycle; more and more education services (certification, training, testing, etc.) are delivered by transnational providers; and international organizations are more active in the definition of educational agendas and policies at multiple scales.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127894975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic Education of Adults as a Responsibility of the Welfare State: A Comparison of Policies in Austria, Denmark and England","authors":"C. Knauber","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134375228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agentur für Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung (Hg.): Policy Making in Adult Education. A Comparative Approach across 21 European Regions.","authors":"Michael Schemmann","doi":"10.7788/IJBE-2017-0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/IJBE-2017-0109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124054321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – Building on Existing Knowledge","authors":"Bernd Käpplinger","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116921535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global and Comparative Adult Education Research: A Response to John Field, Klaus Künzel and Michael Schemmann","authors":"M. Milana","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0102","url":null,"abstract":"In the 2016 ‘International Yearbook of Adult Education’, John Field, Klaus Künzel and Michael Schemmann shared their reflections on theory, methodology and future developments of what construed as International Comparative Adult Education, a field of academic and policy research. Reconstructing its past developments since the work of Jullien de Paris, celebrated as an ancestor, and thorough three evolutionary phases until its apparent demise in present days, the authors present a rather convincing historical account. This narrative distinguishes between a pre-foundation or ‘bridging’ phase (1900-30), a foundation phase (post World War II to the late 1960s), and an institutionalisation phase (1970s onwards). Yet when reaching the XXI century as a turning point, the authors claim “it poses the question of what is understood as comprising international comparative adult education research” (Field, Künzel & Schemmann 2016, p. 110). Accordingly, they purposely open for colleagues to join into the dialogue.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134050355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Comparative Adult Education Research. An Introduction to the Topic","authors":"Michael Schemmann","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0101","url":null,"abstract":"The 40th volume of the International Yearbook of Adult Education is dedicated to international and comparative adult education research. The decision to focus on this topic goes back to last year’s volume of the International Yearbook which presented an article by Field, Künzel and Schemmann (2016) regarding this matter. After the publication of the article a series of comments and letters to the editor made clear that there is a demand for a more detailed discussion on both the current state-of-the art as well as on the future development of international comparative adult education research.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132051831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Perspective on the Use of Large Scale Efforts in Comparative Adult Education Research!","authors":"R. Desjardins","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0104","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses some of the merits and challenges associated with a systemic approach to comparative adult education research which builds on the use of large scale efforts. It is partly in response to an article in last year’s issue of the International Yearbook of Adult Education which discussed the future of International Comparative Adult Education Research. The article by Field, Künzel and Schemmann (2016) problematized the purpose and value of large scale surveys that relate to the field of adult education, and even questioned whether studies such as the ‘Survey of Adult Skills’ (also known as ‘PIAAC – the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies’) and the ‘Adult Education Survey’ (AES) comprise comparative adult education research at all. This raises several issues related to the relationship between large scale research efforts on adult education and the comparative adult education research community, as well as more general issues in social science surrounding the framing and interpretation of empirical data for evaluative and analytical purposes.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124611452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of Migration for Reframing Adult Education for Equity in Mobile Times","authors":"S. Webb","doi":"10.7788/ijbe-2017-0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7788/ijbe-2017-0106","url":null,"abstract":"International comparative adult education research takes both an international and a comparative perspective, whilst often assuming that the nation state is the main unit of analysis (Milana 2017). Yet, human mobility across national borders is an increasing phenomenon. Arguably, the effects of transnational migration on national adult education policies and practices are somewhat underdeveloped in international comparative research. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a reframing of adult education research for mobile times by shifting the focus of international comparative adult education research onto the experiences of transnational migrants. To date, there has been considerable focus in international comparative adult education on how national policies align and develop in relation to one another over time and to the activities of intergovernmental organisations (Milana 2017). Similarly, cross-country comparisons on education participation and outcomes using measures such as the ‘Adult Education Survey’ (AES) and the ‘Programme for International Assessment of Adult Skills’ (PIAAC) agreed with intergovernmental bodies are well developed (Rubenson 2015). The scope of this chapter is somewhat different. The chapter begins by shifting the lens of international comparative education by highlighting the contribution of narrative based adult education research in developing conceptual understanding of transnational migration and equity. The chapter discusses this conceptual frame, narrative analysis, in some detail by drawing on an example from Australia to analyse how opportunities for migrants are constructed unequally by national policies and how migrants’ narratives of their experiences reveal inequalities arising from transnationlism.","PeriodicalId":185302,"journal":{"name":"Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129923974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}