Adult educational programs in museums—a program analysis using the example of the museum education center in Cologne

An analysis of educational programmes for adults accompanying museum exhibitions: the typology of portals

“…This will be waived in the present study to concentrate on the learning pathways opened up for the participants. 7 A more methodologically detailed research approach to the analysis of these programmes is elucidated more thoroughly by Specht and Fleige (2016). 8 An initial pilot test and validation of the portal with these five subcategories (n = 34) by two independent reviewers resulted in a percentage reviewer consistency of 88.2%, with a Cohen's kappa coefficient of .656 (p < .000).…”

“…The present analysis is part of a more extensive study of texts advertising adult educational programmes accompanying museum exhibitions. 7 This analysis examines 709 programme offerings from the first half of 2014 by museum education centres/services in five different cities and (non-)affiliated individual museums in Germany (see Specht & Fleige, 2016;Specht & Semrau, 2015, 2017. Table 1 provides an overview of the total sample and allocates the offerings to nine possible museum types (Institut für Museumsforschung [IfM], 2014).…”

“…To better understand their contribution to lifelong learning and their role as sites for education and learning from the standpoint of adult education studies, it is of interest to examine how these services are structured-that is, what educational programmes are offered specifically to adults at museums, what these programmes encompass, and what sorts of learning approaches/pathways and cultural content they provide. These questions, which have not yet received much attention in adult education research, were the subject of a programme analysis conducted for different museums at the German Institute for Adult Education -Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning in Bonn (Specht & Fleige, 2016;Specht & Semrau, 2016).…”

Kulturelle Erwachsenenbildung

“…Zahlen zur Teilnahme an Bildungsveranstaltungen derjenigen Anbieter, die organisierte Bildungsangebote beigeordnet anbieten, bzw. Quellen dazu, sind nachzulesen bei Glogner-Pilz (2013) und Specht & Fleige (2016).…”

“…Allerdings ist in den Vermittlungsangeboten für Erwachsene in Museen nach wie vor das dominante Format -Sozial-und Organisationsform -dasjenige der Führung (Specht & Fleige, 2016). Zumindest ist dies der Befund unserer Analyse der Programme für Erwachsene in fünf museumspädagogischen Zentren.…”