Bernd Käpplinger

Bernd Käpplinger (* 1972 in Mainz ) is an educational scientist with a focus on adult and further education .

Life

Käpplinger grew up in Alzey and completed his Abitur at the Elisabeth Langgässer Grammar School there. He lives in Berlin and Giessen and has a son. His brother is the architecture and city critic Claus Käpplinger.

Bernd Käpplinger has held the chair for further education at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen since 2015. Before that he was junior professor for learning in the life course / in-company further training at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2010 to 2015. After studying adult education / further training, sociology and political science in Mainz, Cork, Nijmegen and Berlin, he worked on German between 2001 and 2010 Institute for Adult Education and at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training in Bonn. His main areas of research and teaching include: in- company further training , program research, educational advice, qualification-related further training and international comparative research. Editor of the series “Studies on Pedagogy, Andragogy and Gerontagogy” at Peter-Lang-Verlag since 2013 together with Steffi Robak. Since September 2018 he has been the spokesman for the adult education section of the German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE).

Works (selection)

New houses for adult education in 1959 and 2019 - will everything stay different? Studies in pedagogy, andragogy and geragogy. Berlin: 2020. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72428
With Fleige, M./Gieseke, W./Hippel, A. von / Robak, S. (Ed.): Program and offer development in adult and further education. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2019. https://www.utb-shop.de/autoren/fleige-marion/programm-und-angebotsentwicklung-in-der-erwachsenenbildung-9865.html
With Elfert, Maren (Ed.): Abandoned Places of Adult Education in Canada. Berlin 2018. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65130
With S. Robak, M. Fleige, A. von Hippel, W. Gieseke (Eds.): Cultures of Program Planning in Adult Education. Frankfurt / Main 2017.
In-company training from the perspective of configuration theories. Bielefeld 2016.
With Cornelia Maier-Gutheil: Approaches and results for counseling (research) in adult and further education : a systematization. In: REPORT - Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung (2015) 2, pp. 163–181.
With Haberzeth, Erik / Kulmus, Claudia: Financing education in the curriculum vitae - What Hänschen gets financed, can Hans pay himself? In: REPORT - Journal for Further Education Research 36 (2013) 2, pp. 43–57.
With Klein, Rosemarie / Haberzeth, Erik (eds.): Further education vouchers - effects of a financing model in four European countries. Bielefeld 2013.
With Robak, Steffi (Ed.): Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times. Frankfurt / Main 2014.
With Kulmus, Claudia / Haberzeth, Erik: Participation in further training - requirements for an employment insurance. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, WISO Discourse, Bonn 2013.
With Behringer, Friederike: Forms of learning close to the workplace and variety of learning locations in in-company further training - Growing importance throughout Europe or specific to Germany? In: Vocational training in science and practice 40 (2011) 1, pp. 15-19.
Degrees and certificates in further education. Bielefeld 2007.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Käpplinger, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educationalist with a focus on adult and continuing education
DATE OF BIRTH	1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz

[1] Junior professor for learning in the curriculum vitae / in-company training

[2] "Studies on Pedagogy, Andragogy and Gerontagogy"

[3] Section for adult education of the DGfE