Dr. Jörg Schwarz

Dr. Jörg Schwarz is an interim professor for Adult Education and Further Education at PH Freiburg and also an interim professor for Empirical Educational Research at Marburg University. Previously, he has been working in a research project on the social responsibility of science at Marburg University. He spent his postdoctoral phase at Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg, where he worked on temporality in adult education, having previously completed his doctorate and various research projects at Marburg University.
Emphasising the connections between social structures, organizations and professional work in Adult Education, Jörg Schwarz has worked on professional fields and relational professionalism in adult education, on the socialisation process of adult educators, on professionalization of entrepreneurship counselling and on young researcher’s career trajectories. More recently, he focusses on the (re-)production of time regimes in professional and organizational contexts.
CG13: Exploring Time and Temporal Patterns in Adult Education
Co-Moderators: Prof. Miriam Douglas & Prof. Sabine Schmidt-Lauff
- Elven, J. & Schwarz, J. (2025): Sustainability and Digital Transformation in Higher Education: An International Comparative Study of University Strategies on Organizational Change. In: WERA (Ed.): Global Perspectives on Educational Research, Vol. 5. London: Routledge.
- Schwarz, J. (2023). Pacing Out Educational Temporalities: Methodological challenges in the measurement of time in adult education research. Sisyphus: Journal of Education 11(1), 83-106. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.26983
- Schwarz, J., Kleinschmidt, J., Lasi, F., Muhammad, F. I., & Fasanmi, S. A. (2022). Network Governance in Adult Education. Sisyphus: Journal of Education, 10(2), 61–84. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.25542
- Schwarz, J., Rosemann, Th., Rathmann, M. (2021). Educated for the Digital Transformation?! Students’ Acquisition of Competences for Digital Learning and Teaching During and Past Pandemic Times. EPALE Journal on Adult Learning and Continuing Education, 10. 91-101.