Open AccessProfessionalisation and quality management
Author(s) -
Regina Egetenmeyer,
Bernd Käpplinger
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european journal for research on the education and learning of adults
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2000-7426
DOI - 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0058
Subject(s) - conflation , plea , quality (philosophy) , sociology , quality management , engineering ethics , political science , public relations , pedagogy , epistemology , engineering , operations management , law , management system , philosophy
The quality of adult educators is on the agenda of European educational policy and thescientific community in Europe. In these contexts, professionalisation and qualitymanagement are often conflated. This paper is based on the hypothesis that qualitymanagement and professionalisation follow two different approaches. The paperoutlines the two approaches with a focus on their two different logics. After a briefcomparison of the two approaches, the paper examines the conflation of these twoapproaches in the expertise Key competences for adult learning professionals(Research voor Beleid, 2010). The paper ends with a plea for acknowledging theboundaries between professionalisation and quality management, and shows ways ofbuilding bridges between them without neglecting their essential difference
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