Research
Our main areas of research:
- Teaching and learning processes and their design in industrial-technical vocational training,
- Occupational requirements, their change and consequences for the design of initial and continuing vocational education and training,
- Vocational education and training in international comparison,
- Quality assurance and development in vocational schools,
- School management and teaching staff in complex school development processes,
- Changes in the constitutional conditions of continuing education (social transformation processes, institutional/organizational structural changes),
- Programme development as well as professional planning and management as a field of professionalisation for adult education (education management, education controlling),
- Teaching-learning processes in further education and their meso-/microdidactic design,
- Individual participation in continuing education in specific fields and regions,
- Digitisation and diversity as cross-cutting issues,
- Development of theoretical concepts and metastructures of work-oriented, pre-vocational and vocational education of disadvantaged people,
- Structures and offers of vocational support for disadvantaged persons,
- Curriculum, methodology and didactics of vocational support education,
- Theory and empiricism of career choice and decision-making processes,
- Target groups and integration perspectives in the promotion of vocational disadvantaged persons
In the above-mentioned fields, the Institute also undertakes advisory tasks for politics, administration, business and educational institutions.