FWB
The Centre for Continuing Education Research and Education Management is devoted primarily to applied research in continuing education. In this field it also supports the design of research-based master’s degree courses and certificate programmes at DUW. FWB’s work in cooperation with its partners combines research, consulting and continuing education to advance the development of coherent concepts of lifelong learning in institutions and in education policy.
Research Emphasis
In 2009 and 2010, research at the Centre for Continuing Education Research and Education Management emphasized the following areas:
1. Learner-centered, skills-oriented academic continuing education
2. Workplace learning
3. The continuing education market in Germany: institutions, supply and demand
4. Appropriate concepts of direction: leadership in the non-profit sector
5. The role of schools in the process of lifelong learning
6. Lifelong learning as an educational policy strategy
Research Projects and Conferences
Research Colloquium on Continuing Education
From April to July, 2009, FWB held a joint research colloquium together with the Prof. Harm Kuper and the Department of Continuing Education and Education Management, Freie Universität Berlin, on current issues in continuing education research. Continuing education researchers from other German universities were invited to this colloquium with the goal of establishing a network of scientists involved in continuing education research.
Professional Development Doctoral Collegium
A core activity of FWB is the establishment of a collegium for working doctoral candidates with the theme “Learning Throughout Life in the Knowledge and Network Society.” The collegium’s focus is on the topics of continuing education research, education management, personnel development and teaching and learning research.
The collegium brings together doctoral candidates who are employed and preparing their dissertations at various universities and departments, supervised by professors in the collegium. The collegium offers a common programme of study and uses a dedicated Internet platform for academic communication.
The purpose of the doctoral collegium is to bundle research work on lifelong learning and to take advantage of synergies by forming clusters with the transdisciplinary approach that results from combining the individual thesis projects.
The collegium’s programme of study includes a summer school with contributions by all of the professors involved. The summer programme is concerned with qualitative and quantitative research methods, approaches and instruments of evaluation and accompanying research, and action research.
The doctoral collegium is organized by FWB in cooperation with Prof. Harm Kuper and the Department of Continuing Education and Education Management at Freie Universität Berlin.
The following institutions are also expected to participate:
- University of Bielefeld: Prof. Wolfgang Jütte
- Technische Universität Dresden: Prof. Andrä Wolter
- University of Graz: Prof. Werner Lenz
- University of Hamburg: Prof. Florian Schramm
Start: 2010
The Platform “School and Lifelong Learning”
This platform is concerned with the role of schools in the process of lifelong learning, and emphasizes the following areas:
- The paradigm shift from teacher-centred education to output-orientation, skills and learning outcomes
- Leadership and management training for school administrators
- Quality management for school administrators and teachers
- Connecting development in school and teaching with the development of appropriate forms of administration and management in schools
- Life in European civil society and the role of schools in the new European civic education
- Preparation of vocational practitioners for work in vocational schools
Start: 2010
University Management
Development of a curriculum to broaden the leadership skills of professors
Skills Orientation in Education and Personnel Development
An experts’ workshop held in July, 2009, dealt with the differences and the common characteristics of notions of skill in the fields of education and personnel development.
Workplace Learning
FWB investigates the conditions and concepts of learning in the workplace, in cooperation with the Institute of Innovation and Technology (IIT) in VDI/VDE-IT, Berlin.
Staff
- Prof. Ada Pellert, Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung (DUW), Berlin
- Dr. Eva Cendon, Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung (DUW), Berlin
- Dr. Roswitha Grassl, Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung (DUW), Berlin
- Anita Mörth, Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung (DUW), Berlin
- A Chair for education research with a focus on corporate learning and new technologies was instituted in June, 2009.
- Prof. Harm Kuper, Freie Universität Berlin
- Sarah Widany, Freie Universität Berlin
Contact
Prof. Dr. Ada Pellert
E-Mail: ada.pellert@duw-berlin.de
Dr. Eva Cendon
E-Mail: eva.cendon@duw-berlin.de