Profile
Research and teaching in the areas of adult learning and education and vocational education and training unfold against the background of social modernization processes in the conflicting fields of social differences. In research and teaching we take into account not only the processes of adult learning in the fields of general, political and cultural adult education, both within institutions and in the sense of informal learning, but also vocational education and job-related continuing education. As such, we understand scientific continuing education as part of professional development. These areas of research and practice lie within the conflicting areas of subject, work and society.
Contact
Bettina Karpf
Phone: +43 463 2700 2703
Email: Bettina Karpf
Room: N.2.56 Main building, North wing, Level 2
We teach and conduct research in the following fields:
- Theories for teaching and learning in ALE and VET (e.g. Transformative Learning; Communities of Practice; experiential learning; transformatorische Bildung; life wide, life deep and lifelong learning)
- Professionalization and quality in ALE and VET
- Organization, governance, and planning of ALE and VET
- Guidance and Counselling
- Adult Basic Education/literacies
- Social justice/social inequality; access, inclusion, and exclusion regarding lifelong learning
- Social-Ecological Transformation
- Critical Pedagogy; Participatory Ethos; Learning for Democracy
- Community Education (e.g. Commons; Sustainability)
- Andragogy/Adult Learning (educational activities and settings)
- Working, learning and living
- Competences, learning outcomes and validation
- Learning spaces in Higher Education and VET
