How are further education opportunities promoted in order to increase participation in such programmes?
In light of current developments such as digitization and decarbonisation, vocational continuing education is seen as playing a key role in ensuring employability and economic productivity.
Against this backdrop, increasing participation in continuing education through the expansion of information and placement services is regarded as an important step towards addressing economic transformations, and is being pursued by various stakeholders in the field of adult and continuing education through the provision of advice, the dissemination and interpretation of information materials, and other strategies.
This doctoral thesis aims to investigate what knowledge regarding continuing education needs, participation and target groups underlies the design and implementation of these strategies, and how the stakeholders involved negotiate this knowledge. To this end, interviews with staff at continuing education and placement organisations, ethnographic records of events, and outreach and public relations materials (leaflets, websites, information brochures) will be collected and qualitatively analysed from a sociological perspective focusing on knowledge and discourse analysis.
Dissertation project
Supervisors: Prof. Jörg Dinkelaker (PH Freiburg), PD Malte Ebner von Eschenbach (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
