Winter Semester 2025/26
New colleague in the department
We are delighted to welcome Lennart Hempel as a new research assistant in Professor Stanik's working group. After studying in Marburg and Cologne and working at the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in Bonn, Mr Hempel is now beginning his doctoral studies in the Adult Education/Continuing Education department in Münster.
His research will focus in particular on topics related to political education, organisational research, international education research and developmental pedagogy.
We warmly welcome Mr Hempel and look forward to exciting new perspectives and a successful collaboration!
University Day 2025: Introducing the Adult Education/Continuing Education department
Human resources development, literacy and basic education, education management, counselling and coaching, and much more – the field of adult education/continuing education offers numerous opportunities to work as an adult educator. In the Adult Education/Continuing Education profile area, students at the Institute of Education can professionalise themselves, develop their own professional profile and gain initial insights into educational practice.
At this year's University Day, the Adult Education/Continuing Education profile area will be presented together with the other profile areas in the IfE's degree programmes at a joint information event, providing insights into research topics, the range of courses on offer and career opportunities in the field of adult education/continuing education.
This year's University Day will take place on 13 November 2025 and will give prospective students the opportunity to find out about the courses offered by the universities in Münster.
Further information on the information event is available here.
New publications from the department
Two new publications have recently been released by the Adult Education and Pedagogical Professionalism working group led by Prof. Dr. Tim Stanik:
- Stanik, T./Wilhelm, J. (2025): Weiterbildungswahlkompetenz. Exploration eines Konstrukts zur Erklärung und Förderung individueller Weiterbildungsbeteiligung In: Eschenbach v. M.E. et al. (Hrsg.): Teilhabe durch Teilnahme? Erwachsenenbildung und Weiterbildung zwischen Partizipation und Exklusion. Opladen: Budrich, S. 75-84.
zur Publikation - Stanik, T./Denninger, A. (2025): Anlässe und Prozessierung im Kontext telefonischer Weiterbildungsberatung. In: Käpplinger, B./Dietz, C. Reuter, M. (Hrsg.): Lebenslanges Lernen und Weiterbildungsberatung. Politisch-wissenschaftliche Diskurse und Perspektiven in der Bevölkerung. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, S. 137-154.
zur Publikation
Guest article
The guest article by Prof. Tim Stanik, Lara Stahl, M.A., and Katharina Klaas on the topic of ‘ Appreciative corporate training culture for Generation Z’ has been published on the ‘überaus’ specialist portal of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training.
Conference participation
On 18 October 2025, Joshua Wilhelm, M.A., and Prof. Dr. Tim Stanik presented and discussed their thoughts on a didactic theory of continuing education counselling at the 2nd Conference of the AG Beratungsforschung (Counselling Research Working Group) in Mainz.
Welcome back!
We wish you a good start to the winter semester and look forward to seeing you again!
Networking in literacy and basic education
On October 9th, Sophia Henneke and Vera Lüneberg from Prof. Öztürk's team gave a presentation on literacy and basic education at the adult education centre in Verl – Harsewinkel – Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock. The adult education centre invited local stakeholders and the speakers to a networking meeting to raise awareness of literacy and basic education and to establish new basic education programmes in the local area.
Summer Semester 2025
Conference participation
On 27 September 2025, Joshua Wilhelm, M.A., and Prof. Dr. Tim Stanik presented their research findings on continuing education choice competence at the 11th Triennial Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) in Prague.
Keynote speech
On 18 September 2025, Prof. Tim Stanik gave a keynote speech at an event organised by Wirtschaftsförderung Beckum (Beckum Economic Development Agency) on the topic of Gen Z: How can we attract and retain the next generation of skilled workers and employees? Among other things, Tim Stanik presented the results of the completed research project GenZ-Kult.
Election as Chairman of the Adult Education Section
Prof. Dr. Tim Stanik, together with Prof. Dr. Julia Franz (University of Bamberg), was elected Chairman of the Adult Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science at the general meeting on 16 September 2025.
DGfE Adult Education Section Conference
We wish you a pleasant break from lectures and look forward to seeing you again in the winter semester!
New colleague in the department
Julia My Kim Ta joined Professor Öztürk's research group as a research associate in May 2025. Ms Ta focuses in particular on political and international comparative adult education, bringing a new and valuable perspective to our research group. We are delighted to welcome our new colleague and extend a warm welcome to her!
New addition to the student assistant team!
Valeria Hartung joined our team as a student assistant in March 2025. Welcome, we look forward to working with you!