Quality management in its relation to professionalisation revisited
This paper revisits a theoretical paper on quality published in the adult education journal RELA in 2011. It analyses the relationship between quality management and professionalisation in Germany, drawing on empirical studies conducted after 2011. The diverse and sometimes ambivalent results demons...
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2025-05-01
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| description | This paper revisits a theoretical paper on quality published in the adult education journal RELA in 2011. It analyses the relationship between quality management and professionalisation in Germany, drawing on empirical studies conducted after 2011. The diverse and sometimes ambivalent results demonstrate that there is still a conflation of quality management and professionalisation, with the latter occasionally taking a dominant position. Nevertheless, bridges and mutual benefits between both logics are also observed. One significant finding is that the landscape of quality management is not solely determined by external forces such as policies and other professions. The role of trained educators is also crucial and perhaps relatively more important than other professions and disciplines.
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| spelling | doaj-art-3424bb1fa51b4651a606b2ae79f4adf22025-08-20T01:51:25ZengLinköping University Electronic PressEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults2000-74262025-05-0110.3384/rela.2000-7426.5614Quality management in its relation to professionalisation revisitedBernd Käpplinger0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1632-3897Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, FB 03 Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften, Institut für ErziehungswissenschaftThis paper revisits a theoretical paper on quality published in the adult education journal RELA in 2011. It analyses the relationship between quality management and professionalisation in Germany, drawing on empirical studies conducted after 2011. The diverse and sometimes ambivalent results demonstrate that there is still a conflation of quality management and professionalisation, with the latter occasionally taking a dominant position. Nevertheless, bridges and mutual benefits between both logics are also observed. One significant finding is that the landscape of quality management is not solely determined by external forces such as policies and other professions. The role of trained educators is also crucial and perhaps relatively more important than other professions and disciplines. https://rela.ep.liu.se/article/view/5614qualityquality management systemsprofessionalisationGermany |
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| title_short | Quality management in its relation to professionalisation revisited |
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