Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 21-35

Journal: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults

Volume number: 2

Issue number: 1

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0058

Publisher: Linköpings University Electronic Press

Abstract: 

The quality of adult educators is on the agenda of European educational policy and the scientific community in Europe. In these contexts, professionalisation and quality management are often conflated. This paper is based on the hypothesis that quality management and professionalisation follow two different approaches. The paper outlines the two approaches with a focus on their two different logics. After a brief comparison of the two approaches, the paper examines the conflation of these two approaches in the expertise Key competences for adult learning professionals (Research voor Beleid, 2010). The paper ends with a plea for acknowledging the boundaries between professionalisation and quality management, and shows ways of building bridges between them without ne glecting their essential differences.

Harvard Citation style: Egetenmeyer, R. and Käpplinger, B. (2011) Professionalisation and quality management: struggles, boundaries and bridges between two approaches?, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2(1), pp. 21-35. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0058

APA Citation style: Egetenmeyer, R., & Käpplinger, B. (2011). Professionalisation and quality management: struggles, boundaries and bridges between two approaches?. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. 2(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0058