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THE GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ADULT EDUCATION (DIE) AS A RESEARCH AND SERVICE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

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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

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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“

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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.

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ORGANISATION - BUDGET

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38,18%

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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

level

PracticeTheory DIE

DIE‘S ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

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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“

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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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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/

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