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SUSANNE LATTKE
THE GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADULT EDUCATION (DIE) AS A RESEARCH AND SERVICE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Regional Summer Academy of Eastern Neighbour countries, Lviv, 2-9 June 2015
German Institute for Adult EducationLeibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning
Deutsches Institut für ErwachsenenbildungLeibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen
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German Institute for Adult Education
Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning
Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung
Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen
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DIE‘s main services: Publications, Events, Statistics
History, Mission and Structure of DIE
Contents
DIE‘s research programmes
Two examples of service products
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HISTORY OF DIE - MILESTONES
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1976
Founded as a pedagogical support agency of the German Community Adult Education Centres
Tasks:• Supporting quality of education programme and methodologies• Training of staff
Accepted to the “blue list” of research institutesreceiving state funding
1997Establishment as independentresearch institutelegal status: registered association
Becoming the „Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning“
2008
Increasing focus onresearch and international workMember of the Leibniz Association
Union of about 90 German non-universityresearch institutes from various branches of study
Common mission: „theoria cum praxi“ – science for the benefit and good of humanity.
DIE‘s Mission
As central institution for research and practice of adult education in Germany, the DIE• links theory/research and practice• conducts application-relevant and fundamental research• provides a transfer of knowledge and infrastructure for
research• develops innovative concepts for practitioners• advises policy stakeholders at national and international
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PracticeTheory DIE
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DIE: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
• System and Politics
Four Research Programmes
• Programmes and Participation
• Organisation and Management
• Teaching, Learning, Counselling
Macro Level
Meso Level
Micro Level
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RESEARCH PROGRAMME „SYSTEM AND POLITICS“
• focuses on AE system in Germany
• investigates effects of institutional regulations
System and Politics
• analysis of participant structures,financing arrangements, stakeholders, and legal bases,
• Including in an internationally comparative perspective
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RESEARCH PROGRAMME „SYSTEM AND POLITICS“
• EU-Alpha – Policies for enhancing basic skills / literacy: A comparative study of actors and governance structures in the EU
• Opportunity Index: development of a measurement tool for measuring participation opportunities in different regions
• CiLL - Competencies in Later Life – Parallel study to the German PIAAC-survey incl. a broadening of the sample to persons aged up to 80 years
Project Examples
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Research focus on
• prerequisites for educational work in continuing education institutions
• interdependencies between organisational design, management and pedagogical performance
• role of cooperation and networking for educational institutions
• case studies on organisational challenges
RESEARCH PROGRAMME „ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT“
Foto: Michaela Herke-Kehne
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• Analysis of professional practice in planning and developing demand and needs-based educational programmes
• Focus on particular subject areas and/or target groups (e.g. cultural education; literacy/basis skills)
• Benefits of participants and demand structures
Programmes and Participation
RESEARCH PROGRAMME „PROGRAMMES AND PARTICIPATION“
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• OED - Outreach Empowerment and Diversity:Identifying successful concepts for involving disadvantaged groups in adult education
• CurVE: reseraching and developing conceptsfor linking debt counselling and financial literacy educational offers
• AE in museums: Investigation of pedagogical offerings for adults in museums
Project examples
RESEARCH PROGRAMME „PROGRAMMES AND PARTICIPATION“
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• individual requirements for continuing educators
• focus on competences and professionalism of teachers
• research on competencies and development of curricula
Teaching, Learning, Counselling
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RESEARCH PROGRAMME „TEACHING, LEARNING, COUNSELLING“
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• European Studies and Research inAdult Learning and Education (ESRALE)Development of a European Master andPhD programme in AE with 10 partner universitieshttp://www.esralenetwork.org/
• Using digital media to assess adult education teachers' general pedagogical/psychological knowledge (ThinK): theoretical conceptualization of PPK and development of a video based test for assessing PKK
Project Examples
RESEARCH PROGRAMME „TEACHING, LEARNING, COUNSELLING“
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PUBLICATIONS – BOOK SERIES
Publication Series
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Application oriented handbooks
Study texts for students and practitioners
Theory-based texts
Country overviews
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PUBLICATIONS
Source: DIE (Ed.) (2010): Trends der Weiterbildung. Bielefeld
• identifies and interprets lines of development
• evaluates current trends in programme and
participation structures, institutions, personnel
and financing
Trend Analysis
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PUBLICATIONS - JOURNALS
• “ZfW - Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung”(Journal on Adult and Continuing Education Research)o leading academic journal on adult/continuing
education in Germanyo peer-reviewed research papers
• “DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung” (DIE Journal on Adult Education)o quarterly magazineo articles on current developments by
researchers, practitioners, policy-makerso information about events
and publications
Journals
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LIBRARY SERVICE
Library
• largest specialised library in the field of adult education worldwide
• 96.000 volumes
• 230 journals
• literacy data base includes morethan 103.000 titles
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EVENTS
Annual Conference „DIE Forum on Continuing Education“
• 2015: Informal Learning – Validation and Benefits
• 2014: Cultural Education
• 2012: Adult Education as a Profession – Requirements, Developments and Concepts
• 2011: Learning without Boundaries
• 2010: Learning in Motion Eric
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EVENTS
Innovation Award for Continuing Education
• since 1997
• biennial event
• aimed at innovative and
field-tested projects
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EVENTS
Science meets Parliament
• Initiator: Leibniz Association
• Venue: Federal and State Parliaments
• Objective: dialogue between research and practice
• Format: individual conversation with MPs
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STATISTICS AND SURVEYS
Source: www.wbmonitor.de
• cooperation project between DIE and BIBB
• annual survey with providers of general and vocational continuing education
• covers changes and provider structures of adult education,
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STATISTICS AND SURVEYS
• Developing a reporting system on the situation and working conditions of AE staff in Germany
• Qualitative Case studies
• Preparation and piloting of a representative survey
• Cooperation with BIBB and University of Duisburg-Essen
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Statistics and Surveys: Statistics of Adult Education CentresAnnual statistics of
- Participants structures
- Course offers
- Funding structures
- Staffing structures
of the German Community AE Centres
Age Groups of Participants in Germany
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SERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE 1: PROFILPASS
• biographic tool for identification anddocumentation of non-formally andinformally acquired competences
• developed since 2002
• more than 125,000 users since 2006
• print and online version
• extra edition for young people
ProfilPASS
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SERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE: PROFILPASS
• distribution and marketing by publishing company W. Bertelsmann www.profilpass.de
• Training and certification of ProfilPass counsellors
• System of certified multipliers and partner organisations
• Coordination and quality monitoring through a service unit at the DIE
ProfilPASS infrastructure
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• translated into six languages: Bosnian, English, French, Greek, Slowenian, Spanish
• EU project KISS (Knowing Interest – Showing Skills): adaptation of PP in partner countries France, Greek, Ireland, Slovenia Spain
• GIZ project “Support to Adult Education” in Bosnia and Herzegovina: includes adaptation and implementation of PP in BH; partners: AE/VET providers and job centres
• Ongoing negotiations with ChileanForeign Trade Chamber about use of PP in Chile
ProfilPASS internationally
SERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE: PROFILPASS
KURZE SKIZZE DES PROJEKTSSERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE 2: WB-WEB
Development of an online portal
to support the self-directed competence development
of practitioners
Ongoing Project
Aim:
SERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE WB.WEB: FUNCTIONS
Information
Orientation
Training
Networking
Validation
Knowledge resources
Information on additional offers
Offers for self-directed learning of adult educators
Exchange between practitioners and experts
Assessing and certificating of learning outcomes
wb.web – Functions
DER STATUS QUO: EIN ERSTER BLICK AUF VWB-WEB.DE
SERVICE PRODUCT EXAMPLE WB.WEB
www.wb-web.de/