Types of institutions of further education—A survey of existing types and possibilities of differentiation for use in program research and organizational research

Abstract

Abstract The contribution aims at outlining a proposition as to how institutions of further education may be typed and systematically increasingly differentiated within the framework of developments on the landscape of further education. In addition to explaining how this differentiation could be achieved, the article also offers a broadening of the current perspective of typologies of institutions by including adjunctive education as a category of typification. The approach is thus anchored at the interface between program research and organizational research.

Keywords

• Program research
• Organizational research
• Typology of institutions
• Particular type
• Adjunctive education