Auf der stetigen Suche nach Optimierung: Die Rolle der öffentlichen und privaten Akteure in der politischen Ökonomie der Erwachsenenbildung in der Schweiz. You have full access to this open access article. This article reconstructs the changes in the political economy of adult education in Switzerland since the middle of the 20th century.
Methodologically, the analysis is based on historical institutionalism and concentrates on path dependencies and critical junctures. It is shown that the Swiss adult education system is neither exclusively a marked-led nor a stakeholder-led regime. Instead, it is demonstrated that the current situation cannot be understood without considering the several government initiatives in the context of digital change since the s as well as the efforts of the private national continuing education association SVEB.
The article concludes with reflections on the expected impact of the first national law on continuing education which has been enacted in Dieser Artikel rekonstruiert die Veränderungen in der politischen Ökonomie der Schweizer Erwachsenenbildung seit Mitte des Vielmehr wird gezeigt, dass die gegenwärtige Situation nicht ohne Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen nationalen Initiativen im Kontext des digitalen Wandels seit den er Jahren sowie der Arbeit des Schweizerischen Verbands für Weiterbildung SVEB verstanden werden kann.
In comparative research, adult education in Switzerland is considered either as part of a collective skill formation system with a strong role for business associations or it is stressed that supply and demand in general and vocational continuing education is regulated by the market Desjardins , pp.
This article deals with these contradictory accounts of the Swiss adult education system. It reconstructs path dependencies and critical junctures in the institutional development of adult education in Switzerland.
