German Institute for Adult Education
The German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning e. V. ( DIE ) is an institution for science, politics and practice in adult education based in Bonn.
tasks
The DIE is an institution for science, politics and practice in adult and continuing education in Germany. The institute, funded by the federal and state governments, is a member of the Leibniz Association. It conducts research on issues relating to teaching and learning for adults, further training programs and further training institutions. Further research subjects are political and institutional framework conditions for lifelong learning . In addition, the institute contributes to knowledge transfer in Germany and Europe. Infrastructures for research and practice are available.
The institute conducts educational research and development work on topics related to lifelong learning. Questions of social relevance are, for example: How can further training systems be designed in such a way that participation and skills increase and social disparities are reduced? How can further training institutions be organized and managed so that they provide educationally effective offers? How can further training programs and offers be developed in line with needs and requirements? How do teaching, learning and counseling work in adult and continuing education?
The DIE
- conducts application-oriented and basic research,
- provides knowledge transfer and provides infrastructures for research and practice,
- develops innovative concepts for practice and
- advises actors in regional, national and international training policy.
The institute wants to support the national, international and interdisciplinary networking of further education and its research. The DIE also represents German continuing education on an international level: its scientists are members of international committees, coordinate cross-border projects or participate in them and create publications that are considered across national borders.
The institutional structure of the DIE
The processes in the institute are supervised by the board of directors. A scientific advisory board accompanies the work of the institute in terms of content. The legal entity of the DIE is a registered association with 19 members, half of whom come from practice and half from science in adult and further education. DIE cooperates with several universities and will expand these institutional cooperations in the future.
organization
The departments of the DIE represent different levels of action in adult and further education. Their spectrum ranges from teaching-learning processes to educational frameworks in politics, practice and the public.
The researchers at DIE work in six departments:
- System and politics
- Organization and programming
- Teaching, learning, advising
- Knowledge transfer
- Research infrastructures
The DIE library for adult education is part of the Research Infrastructures department. As the largest scientific specialist library for adult education in the German-speaking area, it is open to the public and available to anyone interested. It is aimed in particular at students, scientists and practitioners in the field of adult and continuing education.
Member of the Leibniz Association
The DIE is a member of the Leibniz Association . The common mission of the Community Institute is: Science for the benefit and wellbeing of people - theoria cum praxi . The member institutes are measured against the excellence demands of non-university research funding by subjecting themselves to regular evaluations. Within the Leibniz Association, DIE is a member of the research groups “Educational Potential”, “Healthy Aging” and “Open Science”.
history
The German Institute for Adult Education was founded in 1957 as the pedagogical office of the German Adult Education Association (PAS), based in Frankfurt am Main. The first director was Prof. Dr. Willy Strzelewicz. In 1977 the PAS was included in the joint research funding of the federal government and the federal states (then “Blue List”, today Leibniz Association) and in 1994 it was renamed “German Institute for Adult Education (DIE)”. In 1997 the institute was accepted into the Leibniz Association. In 2002 the institute moved from Frankfurt to Bonn under the Berlin / Bonn Act. In order to emphasize the affiliation to the Leibniz Association more strongly, the name of the institute was expanded in 2007 to include the addition “Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning”.
Since 2012 Prof. Dr. Josef Schrader the institute (from 2014 to 2017 together with Prof. Dr. Esther Winther). He is also a professor of educational science with a focus on adult education / continuing education at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Tübingen. His research and work focuses include empirical and theoretical teaching / learning research, adult education, professionalization of further training staff, (media-supported) case-based learning and the structure and control of the further training system, also from an international comparative perspective.
The administration
- 1957–1960 Willy Strzelewicz (Head of PAS)
- 1960–1991 Hans Tietgens (Head of PAS)
- 1998–2006 Klaus Meisel (Director)
- 1997–1998 Günther Dohmen (Acting Scientific Director)
- 1991–2011 Ekkehard Nuissl (Scientific Director)
- 2014–2017 Esther Winther (Scientific Director)
- since 2012 Josef Schrader (Scientific Director)
Publications
The books, magazines and online texts published by DIE take up fundamental topics of adult and continuing education and provide information on current research results.
Magazines
The Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung (ZfW) is the leading scientific journal for research on adult education in Germany, whose articles are peer-reviewed. It was founded in the 1970s as the first and only German journal with a focus on adult education science. It has been in existence since 2015 the ZfW published as an open access journal.
further educate . THE magazine for adult education - the quarterly magazine in the practical field of further education provides information on current events and discussions.
Books
DIE Survey - The DIE publishes current research results from empirical studies on the continuing education system and the educational institutions operating in it.
Theory and Practice of Adult Education - Scientists present current and trend-setting research results that also have an impact on practice.
Perspective practice - in the guides, recommendations for action and recipe knowledge for practitioners in adult education are presented.
Textbooks - The textbooks bundle research-based knowledge of adult education and its related sciences and impart basic knowledge for practical action.
Country portraits for further education - The country reports offer a condensed orientation on the further education system of the respective country. In addition to structural data, the characteristics of the national system are shown.
Individual publications - This is where basic works are published in German and English, including results from DIE projects or specialist conferences.
Open Access
As a member of the Leibniz Association, DIE is committed to Open Access. It follows the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge” and the “Guideline on Open Access in the Leibniz Association” and has laid down the stipulations of its actions in its own Open Access Policy. The institute promotes the publication of research results on the “golden” as well as the “green” path of Open Access. In the institutional open access repository, publications by DIE from journals, book series and other formats are made freely accessible. These are equipped with a CC license. The DIE's open access publications are also visible on LeibnizOpen and other specialist portals. DIE is actively involved in the "Open Access" working group of the Leibniz Association.
wb-web.de: A portal for teachers in adult education
The scientific work of the DIE aims to increase the quality of further education, e.g. B. through the portal www.wb-web.de.
It is aimed at teachers in adult education who can find valuable and important suggestions and information for their daily work on the portal. Since hundreds of thousands of committed people are active in adult and further education, but little technical and low-threshold support is available to them, the openly accessible and free online portal helps them to create professionally and didactically valuable further education offers.
From 2019 the portal will be supplemented by an integrated self-study offer; Teachers will then find an online learning offer that is geared to the specific problems of everyday working life, which is differentiated according to professional skills and different levels of difficulty. A specialist editorial team creates the didactic learning units.
Web links
- Website of the DIE
- www.wb-web.de - Portal for teachers in adult and further education with integrated e-learning offer
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE | The Institute. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | The Institute. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | The Institute. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | Organization chart. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | "System and Politics" department. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | Organization and program planning department. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | “Teaching, Learning, Advising” department. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ THE | Knowledge transfer. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Research infrastructures at the German Institute for Adult Education. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ^ Leibniz Institute (all lists). Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/forschung/leibniz-forschungsverbuende/bildungspotenziale.html
- ↑ https://www.leibniz-gesundes-altern.de/
- ↑ https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/forschung/leibniz-forschungsverbuende/open-science.html
- ↑ THE | Brief overview of the institute's history. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.die-bonn.de/institut/dienstleistungen/Publikationen/report.aspx
- ↑ https://www.springer.com/journal/40955
- ↑ https://www.die-bonn.de/zeitschrift/default.aspx
- ^ DIE publications on adult education. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Open Access. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Open Access Policy. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.wb-web.de/