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Creativity has become a buzzword across all disciplines in education and across all phases, from early years through to tertiary education. Although the meaning of creativity can change vastly depending on the global educational setting, it is impossible to ignore the applicability and relevance of creativity as an educational tool, philosophical framework and pedagogical approach. Through case studies of creativity in varying settings and diverse contexts, this collection explores the ground-breaking work undertaken internationally to support, develop and future-proof learners with, and for, creativity. The chapters are centred around a practice based enquiry or other forms of empirical research. This provides the scholarly basis upon which creativity is continuously reconceptualised and redefined in the educational and country-specific context of each study. Contributors from different countries then provide critical, reflective and analytical responses to each chapter. These conversational responses focus further on international education perspectives and provide a dialogue for educators into how methods and approaches can be transferred, translated and contextually mediated for different environments. Through the case studies and responses, Creativity in Education provides practical insights for application in a wide range of educational settings and contexts, such as the use of art exhibitions and object-work, as well as more philosophical approaches to teacher education, leadership for learning and creativity as a universal phenomenon.

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of education in China, covering 12 critical topics including basic education, higher education, professional education, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, mental health education, and international education and excellence initiatives. Drawing from current research, theoretical literature, and real-life stories, this book examines the developmental trajectories, achievements, and best practices in the above-mentioned topics, to reflect realities of education transformation in China. It also incorporates a global comparison of key indicators to explore strengths of and gaps in Chinese education with its global counterparts. Setting its context in an ever-changing world, this book intends to explore conceptual support to develop “a modern education system with Chinese features and world standards”, to provide implications for further developing quality education in all sectors, and to promote understanding and inspire critical discussion on education development in China and around the world. This book serves as a valuable resource for students, scholars, and policy makers in the field of education studies, as well as for the general public who are interested in Chinese education.

This open access book provides key insights into the social fundamentals of learning and indications of social interactive modes conducive and restrictive of that learning in China. Combining theoretical and technical advances in an innovative research design, this book focuses on collaborative problem solving in mathematics to increase the visibility of social interactions in teachers’ designing, students’ learning and teachers’ instructional intervention. It also explores students’ cognitive and social interaction as well as teacher intervention in students’ group collaboration.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ausgehend vom aktuellen Forschungsdiskurs der didaktische Einsatz von Erklärvideos im Sachunterricht untersucht. Der Sachunterricht stellt aufgrund seines umfassenden Bildungsauftrags ein herausforderndes Betätigungsfeld für Lehrkräfte dar. Das audiovisuelle Medienformat Erklärvideo kommt dabei zunehmend zur Anwendung. Anhand einer explorativen qualitativ-empirischen Studie mit österreichischen und deutschen Grundschullehrkräften wird ein Rahmenmodell zum Erklärvideoeinsatz im Sachunterricht entwickelt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl die Schulschließungen im Zuge der Coronapandemie als auch der individuelle Umgang mit dem Bildungsauftrag des Sachunterrichts Motive für den Einsatz von Erklärvideos darstellen. Es werden Vorgehensweisen bei der Auswahl bzw. Gestaltung von Erklärvideos sowie didaktische Zielsetzungen und situationsspezifische Umgangsformen mit dem Medium identifiziert. Einflussfaktoren für die Nutzung von Erklärvideos sind die Verfügbarkeit passender Angebote, die technische Ausstattung sowie personenbezogene Faktoren wie persönliches Interesse und Medienkompetenz. Qualitätsvolle Erklärvideos im Sachunterricht können bei zweckmäßigem Einsatz als geeignete Bildungsressourcen für die Lernenden und als didaktisches Werkzeug für die Lehrenden betrachtet werden.

In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and international contexts, this volume delves into the multifaceted interactions between universities and various knowledge users, emphasizing the need for scholars to reflect on how their knowledge can become useful and applicable to wider society. Organized into three compelling themes, collaboration, engagement, and impact, this book explores the concept of "mattering". Together and jointly, they point at the fluid movement of scholars and scholarly knowledge across academic, political, and public spaces, and the intentional actions of scientists to leverage their expertise for real-world impact. Essential reading for social science and humanities scholars, university management professionals, and individuals keen on a critical understanding of the evolving role of universities, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how universities have mattered, continue to matter, and can shape the future.

This open access book is dedicated to exploring methods and charting the course for enhancing engineering education in and beyond 2023. It delves into the idea that education, coupled with social connections, is indispensable for a more profound comprehension of the world and the creation of an improved quality of life. The book serves as a conduit for incorporating complex problem-solving into engineering education across various formats. It offers a structured approach for tackling complex issues, comparing an array of techniques for managing complexity within the realm of engineering education. Moreover, the book scrutinizes several complex case studies derived from the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, it explores intricate problem-solving and curriculum change case studies specific to engineering education from Harvard University, the University of Technology Sydney, and Aalborg University.

Many people with disabilities continue to live with their parents continue to live with their parents or close relatives. This study analyses the living situations of these families. What are their ideas about the future living and care situation of the family member with a disability? At the same time, the study focusses on those families in which the family member with a disability has moved out of the home. What are the reasons for moving out and how do the families experience the transition to assisted living? The findings of the study are used to further develop concepts for family counselling and support., Viele Menschen mit Behinderungen leben im Erwachsenenalter weiterhin bei ihren Eltern oder nahen Verwandten. In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Lebenssituationen dieser Familien untersucht. Wie sehen ihre Vorstellungen von der zukünftigen Wohn- und Betreuungssituation des Familienmitglieds mit Behinderung aus? Zugleich nimmt die Studie diejenigen Familien in den Blick, bei denen das Familienmitglied mit Behinderung von zu Hause ausgezogen ist. Welche Beweggründe führen zum Auszug und wie erleben die Familien den Übergang in eine betreute Wohnform? Die Erkenntnisse der Studie dienen der Weiterentwicklung von Konzepten der Familienberatung und -unterstützung.

This anthology brings together empirical and theoretical contributions on the question of the possibilities, limits and paradoxes of the professionalisation of student teachers at the beginning of their studies. Both educational science and didactic perspectives are taken into account. The contributions focus on the logic of implementation in interactions as well as on the orientations of students and various actors in teacher training and show the multifaceted and complex process of socialisation into teacher training., Der Sammelband bündelt empirische und theoretische Beiträge zur Frage nach Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Paradoxien der Professionalisierung von Lehramtsstudierenden am Beginn ihres Studiums. Hierbei finden sowohl erziehungswissenschaftliche als auch fachdidaktische Perspektiven Berücksichtigung. Die Beiträge fokussieren auf Vollzugslogiken in Interaktionen sowie auf Orientierungen von Studierenden und verschiedenen Akteur:innen der Lehrer:innenbildung und zeigen das facettenreiche und komplexe Geschehen der Einsozialisation in das Lehramtsstudium auf.

This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and Latin America, and the participation of women, who have often remained invisible in the history of sociology. The book explores how sociological discourse played a fundamental role in the separation of secular and public education and the search for a ‘national project’ from 1868 onwards, despite the lack of an institute of social research until 1930; how sociology became an autonomous social science, led by a few intellectuals and public figures, as it became institutionalized in universities, and the effect this had on the development of the discipline; the influence of Marxism during the 1970s; and the progression from a process of specialization after the fall of the Berlin Wall to a new trend of working in collective projects with an increasing interdisciplinary perspective in the first decades of the 21st century.

This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this contemporary geologic time. This work continues the mission of transforming the ways communities inherit science and technology education: its knowledges, practices, policies, and ways-of-living-with-Nature. Our understanding of the Anthropocene is necessarily open and pluralistic, as different beings on our planet experience this time of crisis in different ways. This second volume continues to nurture productive relationships between science education and fields such as science studies, environmental studies, philosophy, the natural sciences, Indigenous studies, and critical theory in order to provoke a science education that actively seeks to remake our shared ecological and social spaces in the coming decades and centuries. This is an open access book.

This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. There are different pathways for skilled migrants to vocations. Some start working in their previous vocations after arriving in the new environment. Some re-enter their professions but on a lower level. Some can re-train themselves in a new vocation, and some will go to further education, as studies in different chapters of this book suggest. Common for successful integration seems to be several intertwined factors: the target language competence, strong motivation and agency, supporting networks and supporting persons, as well as structural opportunities of the new environment. The book’s editorial board takes an eclectic view, hoping to start an academic debate about what ‘successful integration’ means. While discussions about the integration of migrants tend to focus on integration failures, there are millions of migrants, in different countries, who have successfully integrated into their new societies.

This is an open access book. It draws from relevant theories and approaches to teachers’ professional development (TPD) and innovative and inspiring TPD practices in higher education. It first lays a solid foundation for the rest of the book, through critiquing prevalent theories, approaches, and teaching competency frameworks guiding TPD in higher education, and defining the key concepts related to TPD. The book then develops a standard framework and assessment instrument of teaching competencies as well as ways of using this framework by institutions, departments at different levels, and individual teachers. It also proposes strategies for improving teachers’ teaching competencies by reviewing what has been achieved to date in TPD in terms of national-level policies and strategies, institutional-level interventions, and teachers’ self-directed professional development. Finally, it also presents case studies of typical practices in TPD in different countries.

Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist eine neue, mediale Thematisierung sexueller Gewalt durch pädagogische Fachkräfte seit 2010. Dieser wird zu Beginn der Arbeit als Gegenstand seine ambivalenten Folgen dargestellt. Zum einen entwickelte sich ein großes Potential für Prävention, Intervention und längst überfällige Aufarbeitung. Zum anderen kommt es zu einem gesellschaftlichen Generalverdacht gegen pädagogische Fachkräfte. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt die Arbeit die Frage: Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen pädagogische Fachkräfte der Heimerziehung angesichts des neuen, öffentlichen Diskurses über sexuelle Gewalt gegen Schutzbefohlene? Anhand von sechs Gruppendiskussionen mit Teams, aus der Heimerziehung, wird mittels der Dokumentarischen Methode rekonstruiert, dass die Fachkräfte sich im Zuge des öffentlichen Diskurses unter Generalverdacht gestellt fühlen. Empirisch kann gezeigt werden, dass das Thema sexuelle Gewalt durch diesen und fünf weitere Anlässe für die Fachkräfte relevant wird (Ausbildung, biografische Betroffenheit, institutionelle Bedingungen, Tatverdacht/Gewalttaten und kindliche Bedürfnisse nach Versorgung und Nähe). Der subjektiv wahrgenommene Generalverdacht geht für die Fachkräfte einher mit der Angst vor Repressalien gegen die eigene Person oder Kolleg*innen. Kindliche Bedürfnisse nach Nähe werden für die Fachkräfte vor dem Hintergrund zum Risiko. Gehen sie den Bedürfnissen fachlich angemessen nach, glauben sie Gefahr zu laufen, sexueller Gewalt bezichtigt zu werden. Sie stehen vor einem professionellen Dilemma und müssen den Schutz der eigenen Person gegen die Nähebedürfnisse der Kinder und Jugendlichen abwägen. Die Folge ist distanziert(ere)s und technokratisches Handeln, welches je nach konzeptioneller Perspektive unprofessionell und im Hinblick auf die Bedürfnisse der Kinder und Jugendlichen verletzend sein kann. Um der Herausforderung zu begegnen, haben die Fachkräfte Bewältigungsstrategien entwickelt. Diese sind davon abhängig, (1) ob die Fachkräfte sich vorstellen können, dass eine*r ihrer Kolleg*innen sexuelle Gewalt verübt, (2) inwieweit sich Fachkräfte für ein Nähebedürfnis der Kinder und Jugendlichen verantwortlich fühlen (familienanalog vs. nicht familienanalog) und (3) wie sich der Umgang der Organisation mit der medialen Thematisierung darstellt. Als ein weiterer Ergebnisstrang kann in der Arbeit gezeigt werden, dass sexuelle Gewalt durch eigene Kolleg*innen nicht, bzw. nur sehr schwer vorstellbar ist. Diese „Undenkbarkeit“ ist in die Sprache der Beforschten eingeschrieben. Die Arbeit zeigt, wie dieser fehlende Wahrnehmungshorizont das Handeln der Fachkräfte beeinflusst. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.

This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up the research and practice achievements of blended learning from different research teams, involving more than 20 experts from educational technology, higher education, vocational education, and education management over the past 20 years. This book recommends relevant policies of blended learning to international organizations and governments in various countries, provides systematic solutions for administrators in institutions to promote educational reform via blended learning, and serves as a reference book for instructors, researchers, and relevant enterprise practitioners.

Based on extensive data, including 800 hours of interview material, online questionnaires and group discussions, the second volume of results from the research transfer project "Child and Youth Work in Corona Times" at HAW Hamburg presents fascinating insights into the perspectives of young people between the ages of 13 and 25 on open child and youth work. The authors thus make a valuable contribution to the analysis of the significance of these institutions during the Corona era., Kinder- und Jugendarbeit ist ein wichtiger gesellschaftlicher Ermöglichungs- und Unterstützungsort für junge Menschen. Basierend auf Gruppendiskussionen mit 87 Jugendlichen präsentiert der zweite Ergebnisband des Forschungstransferprojektes „Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten“ der HAW Hamburg faszinierende Einblicke in die Perspektiven junger Menschen zwischen 13 und 25 Jahren auf Einrichtungen der Offenen Kinder- und Jugendarbeit – ein wertvoller Beitrag zur Analyse der Bedeutung dieser Orte für junge Menschen in Krisenzeiten.

Digital Humanities and Laboratories explores laboratories dedicated to the study of digital humanities (DH) in a global context and contributes to the expanding body of knowledge about situated DH knowledge production. Including contributions from a diverse, international range of scholars and practitioners, this volume examines the ways laboratories of all kinds contribute to digital research and pedagogy. Acknowledging that they are emerging amid varied cultural and scientific traditions, the volume considers how they lead to the specification of digital humanities and how a locally situated knowledge production is embedded in the global infrastructure system. As a whole, the book consolidates the discussion on the role of the laboratory in DH and brings digital humanists into the interdisciplinary debate concerning the notion of a laboratory as a critical site in the generation of experimental knowledge. Positioning the discussion in relation to ongoing debates in DH, the volume argues that laboratory studies are in an excellent position to capitalize on the theories and knowledge developed in the DH field and open up new research inquiries. Digital Humanities and Laboratories clearly demonstrates that the laboratory is a key site for theoretical and critical analyses of digital humanities and will thus be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners engaged in the study of DH, culture, media, heritage and infrastructure.

This book is about digital humanities laboratories, places where the humanities take up new digital and computational technologies for teaching and research, which often grow out of—or turn into—other contemporary labs configurations: research software engineering labs, digital heritage labs, feminist labs, and social labs. In this introduction, the editors present the goal of the volume, which is to discuss the concept of a laboratory in digital humanities from a broad range of perspectives: epistemological, infrastructural, technological, and socio-cultural. This book offers a reflection on how to interrogate the organisational structures of digital humanities, how to reimagine a “critical laboratory” with great sensitivity towards racial, gender, and indigenous issues, and what can be offered to other humanities fields interested in laboratories (e.g., science and technology studies, media studies, and cultural heritage studies). Laboratories have become an important lens for investigating the development of the field of digital humanities and its connections with science, technology, industry, and society, drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from science and technology studies, infrastructure studies, philosophy of technology, feminism, postcolonial studies, and critical digital pedagogy. This collection aims to pave the way toward “laboratory studies” as a new research direction in digital humanities.

When King’s Digital Lab was established in late 2015 it was conceived as both a craft factory (working with colleagues to produce digital outputs) and a technical experiment (a site where the intersection of technology and the humanities could be explored). Significant progress has been made on both of those fronts: dozens of projects have been enabled, operational white papers have been shared, and research outputs have explored the intellectual and philosophical aspects of the laboratory environment. It is now possible to move beyond the techniques that enabled this success and use insights from the philosophy of technology to explore long-standing concerns about the role of technology in society. In doing so, the laboratory would become an applied techno-philosophical experiment. More radically, it could rehabilitate the use of technical objects in the humanities and reject technophobia as not only unproductive but unethical. Technical (digital) objects could thus be accorded droit de cité in the field of the humanities. This perspective fits well with emerging work in the humanities that highlights the history of the field, its relationship to modelling, the indeterminacy of computer technology, and the potential for human-machine relations to be reconciled through aesthetics.

This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critically and be in possession of the citizenship skills necessary to thrive in a multilingual world. The authors celebrate multilingualism and bring indigenous traditions such as oracy, storytelling, folktales to the fore revealing their positive impact on educational attainment. Addressing issues of language diversity and systematic ignorance of indigenous literacy practices, the book plays a necessary role in introducing Ethiopia’s cultural heritage to the West and, hence, bridges the cultural gaps between the global north and global south. Arguably contributing one of the first publications on early literacy in Ethiopian languages, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students studying the fields of early years literacy and language, indigenous knowledge and applied linguistics more broadly.

This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it crucially examines the challenges at the intersection of two institutional priorities: internationalization and anti-racism. This is especially important for the Asian international student group, who are known to experience invisible forms of discrimination and differential treatment in Canadian post-secondary education institutions. The authors present new conceptualisations and theoretical perspectives on topics including international students’ experiences and understandings of race and racism, comparisons with domestic students and/or non-Asian students, institutional discourse and narratives on Asian international students, comparison with other university priorities, cross-national comparisons, best practices, and recent developments linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Foregrounding the institutional strategies of Canadian universities, as opposed to student experience exclusively, this direct examination of institutional responses and initiatives draws out similarities and differences across the country, compares them within the broader array of university priorities, and ultimately offers the opportunity for Canadian universities to learn from each other in improving the integration of Asian international students and others to their student body. It will appeal to teacher-scholars, researchers and educators with interested in higher education, international education and race and ethnic studies.

Effective Use of Collective Peer Teaching in Teacher Education investigates the learning benefits of letting students assume leadership roles in the classroom, emphasizing both theoretical analysis and firsthand empirical research conducted with pre-service teachers. Building on Vygotsky's (1987) sociocultural theory of human learning and research on collective intelligence, this volume introduces peer teaching as a pedagogical practice with a significant and underexplored learning potential. The first part of this book focuses on findings from two separate teacher education programs, while the second analyzes the learning processes through three conceptualized learning positions: peer teacher learning, peer student learning, and collective peer learning. Investigating the balance and interaction of these processes, this book argues that teaching and learning cannot at length be separated from each other and discusses the practical implications of this idea. This book will appeal to researchers, faculty, and teacher educators with interests in theories of learning and international and comparative education. Its crucial insights into how learning can be maximized in the classroom will provide a nuanced picture of the complexity of learning processes.

This book is a contribution to the philosophical discourse on education. Education is considered a tool of philosophy. Education (paideia) and politics (politeia) are equal in importance for building a sustainable society free from feud and unhappiness. Discursive thinking through of education is based on Plato’s dialogues and the results of epistemological, metaphysical and ethical research in the fields of cosmology, sociology and neuroscience. The author demonstrates the potential of the threefold scheme of philosophy, a Platone philosophandi ratio triplex, for ordering individual and collective discourse and way of life in strict accordance with the intelligible complexity of the expanding cosmos. An essential read for students and scholars interested in the crossroad between education and philosophy.

This open access book examines the teaching and learning of English for employability in Vietnamese higher education. Its content is framed within one country to better examine the research issues within the influence of contextual factors. This book investigates how English can contribute to the development of students' employability capitals, particularly in the aspects of human capital, social capital, cultural capital, identity capital, and psychological capital. It presents employers' and employees’ perspectives of how and why English is increasingly important for career development. This book is a collection of discussions and viewpoints from teachers, students, and other stakeholders like employers, graduates, and course coordinators on current practices and their proposed improvements to prepare students for their future education, work and life. Based on empirical evidence, this book calls for repositioning English language education within the employability agenda to elevate its status and increase stakeholders' engagement. This book contributes to current debates on advancing the effectiveness of English language education in non-English speaking countries, as a response to internationalization and globalization.

This open access book provides an analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on diverse education systems, and of the results of the policies adopted to sustain educational opportunities. Through a series of diverse national case studies, the book examines the preexisting fragilities and vulnerabilities in educational structures which shaped the nature of the varied responses, around the world, to teaching and learning during the worst crisis in public education in recent history. The chapters in the book take stock of how educational opportunities changed in various education systems around the world as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, answering the question of what did education systems, and societies, learn about education as a result of the pandemic. The book covers diverse education systems, with varying levels of resources and facing distinct education challenges, including Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, and the United States.

Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele zur Förderung der professionellen Unterrichtswahrnehmung von (angehenden) Lehrkräften im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht. Im Fokus steht das Potential von Animationsfilmen realer Unterrichtsszenen, die mit diesem Band erstmals als innovatives Lehr-/Lernmedium für die Lehrer*innenbildung vorgestellt werden. Die Autor*innen konzeptionalisieren einen fachdidaktischen Zugang zum allgemeindidaktischen Modell der professional vision und präsentieren systematisch erprobte und modular einsetzbare Lehr-/Lernmaterialien zur Arbeit mit Animationsfilmen in der Lehrer*innenbildung. Alle vorgestellten Lehr-/Lernmaterialien sowie die Animationsfilme von Unterricht sind für Interessierte frei zugänglich und im Band entsprechend verlinkt.

This open access book’s theme is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful – foregrounding children’s play and perspectives. It discusses the relation between teachers, children and mathematical content within the context of play with a particular focus on the framing of these relations within this context, which is an important theme in the debate on whether teaching should be integrated with or separated from children’s play. The work further addresses meaningfulness in the learning process, particularly from the child’s perspective. Globally, most guidelines and curricula for early childhood education mention play as one of the key features for young children’s learning. Still, there are quite different views on the definitions of play and in what ways play should become part of children’s learning. The chapters of the book mirror the research topics presented at the fifth POEM conference in May 2022 divided into four sub-themes: Play and learning, Children’s perspectives on mathematics, Teachers’ competencies and Theorizing aspects of early mathematics education.

This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged students, parents or carers, as well as the differentiated experiences of male and female learners. With research drawn from three major research projects and including over 650 FiF students from across all Australian states and territories, as well as Europe, this wealth of perspectives provides unique insights into the lived reality of attending university in contemporary higher education settings. The book is written for a broad audience and will appeal to those working in universities, as well as family members and students who may be contemplating participating in higher education.

This is an open access book. Covering both theories and practices in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teacher development, this book provides up-to-date discussions and recommendations on issues relating to TVET teacher development in the digital age. It caters for the needs of in-service teachers and trainers, as well as TVET leaders who want to upscale their professional learning and development in terms of vision, knowledge, expertise, and industry skills needed in the transition to the digital era. What is particularly useful to TVET teachers/trainers are the proposed competency development framework, competency indicators, and the assessment instrument. Drawing on extensive research regarding TVET teachers’ competency development and today’s industry needs, the proposed framework and indicators can be readily used to inform the self-assessment of one’s professional competency level, so as to plan one’s career trajectory accordingly. Teachers and trainers may also find the exemplary cases of teachers’ professional development from various countries inspiring and motivating. The book also serves as a useful reference for TVET leaders, administrators and teacher trainers. The book's competency framework, indicators, and strategies are an adaptable reference for planning professional development policies, evaluation mechanisms, and programs for teachers.

This book provides a thorough and detailed analysis of how the figure of the ‘autonomous learner’ shapes educational practices. It unpacks the impact of current educational reform discourse that focuses on the individual pupil as a learner, while neglecting the social dimensions of classroom practices. In view of the yet unknown requirements of the knowledge economy, students are demanded to take more responsibility for their learning and to become self-reliant, independent, lifelong learners. In turn, teachers are asked to tailor education to the individual needs of their students and to foster their individual learning trajectories. Based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term observation of interactions in classrooms and other scholastic settings, scholars from three European countries – France, Germany and Switzerland – show how the translation of the figure of the ‘autonomous learner’ into classrooms is shaped by distinct cultural traditions. Chapters analyse teaching routines and conceptions of self-reliance involved in autonomy-oriented settings and discuss how these change the sociality of the classroom. They scrutinize how autonomy is used to differentiate between students and how it contributes to the reproduction of social inequality. The book brings into dialogue two neighbouring research traditions that research autonomous learning from a sociological perspective and which have largely ignored each other until now. In so doing, the contributions engage a critical perspective for a careful empirical analysis in order to better understand what is being done in the name of autonomy. Providing insight into the many facets of developing and nurturing self-standing pupils across various educational contexts, this is ideal reading for scholars in the field of education, as well as teachers and decision-makers across the educational sector.

This chapter advances a novel theoretic-methodological approach to the analysis of qualitative data. The aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship between social inequality and educational outcomes in post-colonial rural Southern contexts. It operationalises the Habitus Listening Guide (Arnot & Naveed, 2014) derived from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction and contemporary narrative theory. The chapter describes the application of four listenings using a dialogic, multi-layered, analysis of interview transcripts. It uncovers the polyphonic voices of four members of Munawar Hussain’s family, describing the impact of the rural social structure on their educational and occupational biographies. Inter-narrativity is generated through repeated listenings of the social structure, of paired father-mother and son-daughter and then of father-son and mother-daughter narratives, and a final mythic-ritual listening which makes audible when religious beliefs are called into play. These beliefs either contribute to the maintenance of poverty and social inequality, and yet inspire strategies to disrupt power structures through education as a religious duty. Each listening reveals the dialectic relationship between the hierarchal post-colonial social order and its school system, and the family’s gendered and generational educational aspirations, strategies, and outcomes.

Sharlene Swartz, Nidhi Singal, Madeleine Arnot, research methods, educational research methods, research methods in education, Global South, southern contexts, decolonization, decolonizing education

Der "Masterstudiengang für das Lehramt an Integrierten Sekundarschulen und Gymnasien mit dem Profil Quereinstieg" (Q-Master) stellt einen alternativen Weg in das Lehramt dar. Es ist wenig darüber bekannt, ob ein solcher Qualifikationsweg in adäquater Weise auf die beruflichen Herausforderungen vorbereitet.Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die Ausprägung und Entwicklung fachspezifischer professioneller Kompetenzen der Studierenden des Q-Masterstudiengangs (N=14) im Fach Physik längsschnittlich erhoben und mit den Studierenden des regulären Lehramtsmasterstudiengangs (N=30) verglichen. Ergänzend wurden Interviews zu den motivationalen Eingangsbedingungen der Q-Masterstudierenden sowie Aspekten der individuellen Nutzung der Lernangebote des Lehramtstudiums durchgeführt.Als Ergebnis zeigt sich ein großer Zuwachs des fachdidaktischen Wissens der Q-Masterstudierenden im Verlauf des Q-Masterstudiums. Im Vergleich zu den regulären Lehramtsmasterstudieren werden keine Unterschiede in der Kompetenzausprägung und -entwicklung nachgewiesen. Die motivationalen Eingangsbedingungen der Q-Masterstudierenden scheinen günstig für die professionelle Entwicklung zu sein und die Lerngelegenheiten des Studiums werden als überwiegend nützlich erlebt. Damit scheint der Modellstudiengang geeignet zu sein, um einen qualitätsgesicherten Wechsel in das Lehramt innerhalb eines überschaubaren Zeitraums zu ermöglichen.

Seit Jahren lässt sich der Lehrkräftebedarf in den MINT-Fächern nicht mehr durch Lehrkräfte mit grundständiger Lehramtsausbildung decken. Um die Lücke zu schließen, werden über alternative Zugangswege Personen ohne vollständige Qualifikation für den Lehrberuf, sogenannte Quer- und Seiteneinsteigende, eingesetzt. Bislang fehlen Erkenntnisse darüber, wie diese die eigenen professionellen Kompetenzen einschätzen, wie zufrieden sie im neuen Beruf sind und inwiefern die Inklusion von Lehrkräften verschiedener Zugangswege in die Fachkollegien gelingt. Das Ziel der Untersuchung besteht in der Bestandsaufnahme der Arbeitssituation von MINT-Lehrkräften verschiedener Zugangswege und der darauf basierenden Erarbeitung bildungspolitischer Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Berufsattraktivität. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine standardisierte Online-Befragung mit N ,= ,1.169 Lehrkräften aller MINT-Fächer sowie eine Interviewstudie mit N ,= ,14 Physiklehrkräften durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass regulär ausgebildete Lehrkräfte, Quer- und Seiteneinsteigende die eigenen Kompetenzen sowie die eigene Arbeitszufriedenheit ähnlich einschätzen. Die Tätigkeit als Lehrperson wird positiv wahrgenommen, die Arbeitsbedingungen dagegen kritisch bewertet. Die Lehrkräfte wünschen sich u. ,a. Entlastung von außerunterrichtlichen Aufgaben und mehr Zeit für die Kerntätigkeiten des Berufs (z. ,B. Unterrichtsentwicklung und Schüler*innenarbeit).

Seit der Jahrtausendwende wird die etablierte wissenschaftliche Praxis durch die Idee von Open Science herausgefordert. Konkret geht es um fünf Formen einer veränderten wissenschaftlichen Praxis, die einen vereinfachten Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Literatur (Open Access), wissenschaftlichen Daten (Open Data), Softwarecode (Open Source), forschungspraktischen Methoden (Open Methodology) sowie Begutachtungsprozessen (Open Peer Review) ermöglichen sollen. Nach mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten der Erprobung steht eine breite Umsetzung trotz enormer Erwartungen und wissenschaftspolitischer Förderprogramme noch aus. Durch umfassende Studien mit Open-Science-Preisträger:innen werden Motivstrukturen, Verständnisse, Persönlichkeitsfaktoren, Sozialisations- und Sensibilisierungsprozesse sowie Rahmenbedingungen im Kontext von Open-Science-Praktiken rekonstruiert, die für die Verankerung von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Die Ergebnisse offenbaren komplexe Motivationslagen bei Wissenschaftler:innen und die Vielschichtigkeit von Open Science in der konkreten Praxis. Dies bietet den Wissenschaftsorganisationen und der Wissenschaftspolitik neue Ansätze zur Förderung von Open Science.

Das ERiK-Projekt erarbeitet durch bundesweite Befragungen die empirische Grundlage zum Monitoring des KiQuTG. Entlang der Handlungsfelder des Gesetzes werden u.a. Daten zu den Bedarfen von Eltern, zur Personalsituation aber auch zu Themen wie Gesundheit von Kindern, sprachliche Bildung oder dem Thema Raum in der Kindertagesbetreuung analysiert. Im vorliegenden Bericht werden - ergänzend zu deskriptiven Auswertungen hauptsächlich amtlicher Daten - Forschungsfragen zur Qualität im Feld der FBBE, die sich aus den deskriptiven Analysen der Daten aus den ERiK-Surveys 2020 ergeben haben, in Vertiefungsanalysen multivariat ausgewertet. Eine Veröffentlichung des Deutschen Jugendinstituts e.V. München (DJI)

School history lessons, and the educational media used in them, are important sites in which concepts of the national are (re)produced and, at the same time, notions of pluralisation and differential equity are negotiated. This book explores how textbook authors, editors, publishers and producers of digital educational media for the history classroom construct concepts of the national and of plurality, and with what implications, thus combining nationalism research, intercultural education science, educational media research, and history didactics. Based on a discourse-analytical evaluation of interviews with producers from German publishing houses, the study questions common dichotomies such as those between national closure and societal pluralisation. By examining the intersections between a firm advocacy of diversity and yet also a dominance of national categories, the book unveils pedagogically relevant tensions between the potential of history textbooks to promote pluralisation, the objectives of the educational media producers, everyday routines in publishing houses, and possibilities for intervention that shift the boundaries of textbook knowledge.

Damit Lehramtsstudierende Lehr-Lernprozesse so gestalten, dass bei Lernenden Erkenntnisprozesse initiiert und unterstützt werden, müssen sie sich vertieft mit den Fachinhalten auseinandersetzen. Die Identifizierung von lernbedeutsamen Zusammenhängen und die Übertragung in Lernschritte sind für Studierende nachweislich schwierig. Daher werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit Verstehens -prozesse von Lehramtsstudierenden bei der Erschließung eines komplexen fachlichen Sachverhaltes und dessen fachdidaktische Verwertung untersucht. Dazu wurde eine Fallstudie mit N ,= ,14 Versuchspersonen durchgeführt, für die ein leitfragenstütztes Lehr-Lernkonzept entwickelt wurde, um eine Vertretungsstunde für einen Leistungskurs Chemie zur Auswertung der Analyse eines Farbstoffgemisches zu erarbeiten. Zur Erschließung der inhaltlichen Zusammenhänge wurden englische Lehrbuchtexte (nachweislich weniger lückenhaft in ihren Argumentationslinien als deutsche) eingesetzt. Ausgewertet wurden die Antworten zu den Leitfragen. Die Auswertung erfolgte mit einem auf Propositionen aufbauenden Kategoriensystem. Die Studierenden haben nur teilweise die relevanten Textpassagen eigenständig erkannt. Entscheidend waren die fachlichen Voraussetzungen. Eine Zunahme im fachlichen Verständnis wirkte sich positiv auf die fachdidaktische Verwertung des erworbenen Wissens aus. Folglich sind für die Lehre leitfragenstützte Lehr-Lernkonzepte, auch unter Einbindung englischer Lehrbuchtexte, für eine vertiefte Wissensverarbeitung zu empfehlen.

Fehler als integraler Bestandteil von Nature of Science (NOS) gehören zum naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgewinnungsprozess. Diese Interventionsstudie liefert empirische Ergebnisse zum Zusammenhang zwischen dem Verständnis von NOS und dem Umgang mit Fehlern. Mittels eines Mixed-Methods Design wurden N=269 Schüler*innen der Sekundarstufe I (7.--9. Klasse) aus der Ostschweiz längsschnittlich befragt. Das Verständnis von NOS-Aspekten beeinflusst die Fehlerlernorientierung, welche eine Mediatorrolle zwischen dem Verständnis von NOS-Aspekten und den affektiv-motivationalen Reaktionen auf Fehler übernimmt. Zwei Monate nach der Intervention unterschieden sich die Interventions- und Kontrollgruppen in affektiv-motivationalen Reaktionen auf Fehler und im Verständnis von NOS-Aspekten. Über die Zeit zeigte sich die Fehlerlernorientierung weniger rangstabil als das Verständnis von NOS-Aspekten. Kreuzverzögerte Effekte konnten zwischen der Fehlerlernorientierung zu einem früheren Zeitpunkt und dem Verständnis von NOS-Aspekten zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt festgestellt werden. Die Ergebnisse der Studie verdeutlichen die zentrale Rolle des Umgangs mit Fehlern im naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Unterricht.

This dissertation contributes to practice-ethnographic educational research and focuses on the phenomenon of subjectivation through performance assessment. It examines alternative assessment practices in secondary school classrooms that aim to evaluate performance without grades in order to promote individual learning development. Using the practice ethnographic approach, the unintended power effects of these assessment practices are analysed. Using four different assessment practices, power dynamics and self-relations of students and teachers are examined to understand how these practices influence the formation of self-relations and how an assessment regime is unfolded in the classroom by processing an increasing responsibiliation of students for performance. The study emphasises the importance of a differentiated investigation of assessment practices and concludes with an outlook on possible future research approaches.

Im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht zielt das Lernen in Kontexten primär darauf ab, die Lernenden näher an ihre Lebenswelt heranzuführen und so ihr Interesse zu steigern. Die vorliegende Studie fokussiert die Wahrnehmung und Wirksamkeit authentischer Kontexte mit physikalisch-technischem Bezug im Lehr-Lern-Labor und nimmt dabei sowohl die Lernenden als auch zukünftige Lehrende in den Blick.Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit wurde das Potenzial von authentischen Kontexten im Bereich von Physik und Technik zur Förderung affektiver Merkmale wie Interesse, Einstellungen und Fähigkeitsselbstkonzept sowohl bei Lehramtsstudierenden wie bei Schüler:innen der Sekundarstufe I untersucht. In zwei Interventionsstudien wurden Themen aktueller Forschung als authentische Lernkontexte im Setting eines Lehr-Lern-Labors eingesetzt. Die empirische Prüfung der Interventionswirkung erfolgte anhand eines quantitativen, quasi-experimentellen Designs mit insgesamt N=176 Lehramtsstudierenden und N=1.156 Schüler:innen.Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Arbeit zeigen, dass die stark fachlich geprägten Forschungsprojekte didaktisch aufbereitet als Lehr-Lern-Material von den Proband:innen authentisch eingeschätzt werden. Das Lernen mit solchen Kontexten ermöglicht eine positive Entwicklung affektiver Merkmale sowohl bei den Lehramtsstudierenden als auch bei den Schüler:innen.

This difference and subject-theoretical study comprises selected reconstructions of ethnographic observations of so-called practices of ‘getting to know each other’ in new fifth-grade classes at secondary schools in Germany. In line with the theoretical-methodological proposal to consider the function of temporality constructions more explicitly, the reconstructions focus on how knowledge about individual students is produced in the mode of remembering and expecting them and their behaviour. In addition, the reconstructions show how they are recursively positioned as temporally differentiated subjects. Step by step, the realisation of the normative-pedagogical differentiation practices of ‘getting to know each other’ and their powerful effects are described. In this way, the study provides in-depth empirical insights into the pedagogical practice of ‘getting to know each other’ and discusses the sometimes precarious conditions and ambivalences that arise in the process.

What relations (of difference) between students develop in such practices of ‘Planarbeit’ in individualized secondary school teaching in which students relate to instructional tasks and to each other? In this study, a (video-)ethnographic approach is chosen to explore the contribution of students to the formation of social order in the classroom. The findings show that the ‘Selbstständigkeit’ (independence) of students in individualized plan-teaching, which relies on students not only showing themselves responsible for their own progression, but also as ‘mit-zuständig’ (co-responsible) for the progression of the work processes of their classmates, is relational: The continuation, the resuming and the appropriateness of individual progressions is socially accounted for and practiced in task-related references between students – which is associated not only with specific practices, but also with relations of difference between those involved.

Textbooks and lecture collections contain a particular body of knowledge that was or is of fundamental importance for a scientific discipline (at a certain point in time). In the present work, such works published between 1750 and 1850 in (scientific) pedagogy are analysed. The focus is on bibliometric analyses, assuming that references can also indirectly make knowledge spaces visible – and thus open up an early, primordial phase of scientific pedagogical thought.

The volume presents research that emerges from the 9th International Adult Education Academy (2022), which brings together researchers, students and practitioners from around the world to share perspectives comparatively. More than 80 participants from almost 20 different countries have exchanged, compared and expanded their individual knowledge and experience on adult learning and education. This volume consisting of eight contributions (including one fundamental article beforehand) assumes that globalisation affects national, regional and local levels of adult learning and education. Transformational relations are observed and analysed through the lens of participation, sustainability and digitalisation. All contributions apply an international comparative research approach to empirically investigate these areas with their upcoming needs. This approach takes place under consideration of comparison as a research method which not only grounds on a long tradition and relies on a set of rules and techniques, but also on an inner attitude and sensitivity with which we look at the world and its global needs while trying to understand.

Bringing together a unique collection of 18 insightful and innovative internationally focused articles, Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts offers reflections, case studies, and critically, research methods and processes designed to decentre, reframe, and reimagine educational research in ways that question existing approaches and operationalise the tenets of decolonising theory. This anthology represents a valuable teaching resource with which to challenge the conventional canons of educational research theory and practice. It provides readers with the chance to read high quality examples of research that critique current ways of doing research and to reflect on how research methods can contribute to the project of decolonising knowledge production in and about education in, for example, Africa, South Asia, Asia and Latin America. It grapples with everyday dilemmas and tricky ethical questions about protection, consent, voice, cultural sensitivity and validation, by engaging with real-world situations and increasing the potential for innovation and new collaborations. Educational Research Practice in Southern Contexts will be essential reading for anyone teaching educational research methods and will encourage novice and experienced researchers to rethink their research approaches, disentangle the local and global, and challenge those research rituals, codes and field work practices which are often unproblematically assumed to be universally relevant.

In Kinderschutzfällen ist es Aufgabe der Jugendämter und Familiengerichte, im Raum stehende Kindeswohlgefährdungen einzuschätzen und gegebenenfalls durch geeignete Hilfen und Maßnahmen abzuwenden. Diese Einschätzungen und Entscheidungen können den weiteren Lebensweg von Kindern und ihren Eltern stark beeinträchtigen. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass die an familiengerichtlichen Kinderschutzverfahren beteiligten professionellen Akteure sich über ihre eigenen Aufgaben und die der anderen im Klaren sind, damit sie gut zusammenarbeiten können. Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt Grundlagenwissen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und bietet damit das Fundament für eine gute interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Es enthält tatsachenwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Kindeswohlgefährdungen und deren Abwendung Grundlagenwissen zur kindlichen Entwicklung Orientierung zu den beteiligten Akteuren, Vernetzung und Interdisziplinarität Kenntnisse über die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen Grundzüge zum Ablauf von Kinderschutzverfahren Die Publikation orientiert sich am interdisziplinären Online-Kurs „Gute Kinderschutzverfahren“ (https://guteverfahren.elearning-kinderschutz.de/) und bietet allen juristischen, sozialpädagogischen, psychologischen und medizinischen Fachkräften die für qualifizierte Kinderschutzverfahren benötigten vertieften Grundlagenkenntnisse. Es handelt sich um eine Open-Access-Publikation mit freiem und uneingeschränktem Zugang zur elektronischen Ausgabe.

This book is the first Finnish-language collection of research on superdiversity. At the core of the book is the growing migration to Finland since the turn of the 1990s and its numerous effects on Finnish society. The interdisciplinary examination of superdiversity is important at the current moment: Finland as a society has reached the point where certain social categories, such as ethnic background, country of birth, mother tongue or gender, are not necessarily sufficient to understand the increased diversity and its consequences. The book consists of a comprehensive introduction to the topic and thirteen chapters. In Finland, research on superdiversity is carried out especially in critical sociolinguistics and applied language studies, education, cultural studies, social sciences, and urban studies. Therefore, these disciplines are strongly represented in the collection, and the chapters approach a variety of topics including refugees’ mental health, experiences of multilingual families, the diversity of education and working life, discursive practices in social media, issues of urban planning and pro-asylum activism.

Across Europe, laboratory schools find new ways to tackle the educational issues of our time. Their work is guided by educational experimentation and the aim to strengthen the bond between educational practice and research. In this book, lab schools from Bielefeld, Brno, Cambridge, Paris, and Vienna provide unique insights into how they bring John Dewey’s framework for a lab school to life. This book is the result of the Erasmus+ project „LabSchoolsEurope: Participatory Research for Democratic Education“. It is a testament to the potential of collaborating across borders.

The academic discourse on the "professionalism and professionalisation of teachers" has become more differentiated in recent years. Against this background, the volume provides an introductory insight into the plurality of professional theory approaches, the diversity of methodological approaches and the spectrum of researched content. This is followed by twelve empirical contributions on current research projects, which are arranged in the volume according to three main areas: "Professionalisation of student teachers in relation to the practical field of school", "Actors influencing the professionalisation of student teachers" and "Professionalisation and professionalism of teachers in the school field". The aim of the volume is to enrich the multifaceted discourse on professionalisation and professionalism based on studies, to enable a meta-perspective on the diversity of the discourse and to encourage reflection on this diversity., Der wissenschaftliche Diskurs um „Professionalität und Professionalisierung von Lehrpersonen“ hat sich in den letzten Jahren weiter ausdifferenziert. Vor diesem Hintergrund gibt der Band einleitend einen Einblick in die Pluralität professionstheoretischer Ansätze, in die Vielfalt von methodischen Zugangsweisen und in das Spektrum beforschter Inhalte. Es folgen zwölf empirische Beiträge zu aktuellen Forschungsprojekten, die im Band nach drei Schwerpunktbereichen geordnet werden: „Professionalisierung von Lehramtsstudierenden in Bezug auf das Praxisfeld Schule“, „Auf die Professionalisierung von Lehramtsstudierenden einwirkende Akteur:innen“ und „Professionalisierung und Professionalität von Lehrpersonen im Schulfeld“. Mit dem Band wird das Anliegen verfolgt, den facettenreichen Diskurs um Professionalisierung und Professionalität studienbasiert anzureichern, eine Meta-Perspektive auf die Vielfalt des Diskurses zu ermöglichen sowie zur Reflexion dieser Vielfalt anzuregen.

The contributions in this volume present key findings from the Leibniz Association-funded project "Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972". On the basis of an extensive corpus of German Abitur essays processed in a digital research environment, examination practices were reconstructed and contextualised - supplemented by the analysis of further sources. Educational history, legal and administrative constellations as well as subject and writing didactic paradigms were analysed, opening up a historical view of the so-called supreme discipline of the Abitur examination, which is also currently asserting its role in the dispute over the conditions for obtaining the general higher education entrance qualification., Die Beiträge des Bandes präsentieren zentrale Befunde des von der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft geförderten Projekts „Abiturprüfungspraxis und Abituraufsatz 1882 bis 1972“. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen und in einer digitalen Forschungsumgebung bearbeiteten Korpus deutscher Abituraufsätze wurden – ergänzt durch die Analyse weiterer Quellen – Prüfungspraktiken rekonstruiert und kontextualisiert. Aufgearbeitet wurden sowohl bildungshistorische, juristische und administrative Konstellationen als auch fach- und schreibdidaktische Paradigmen, die einen historischen Blick auf die sogenannte Königsdisziplin der Abiturprüfung eröffnen, die ihre Rolle auch gegenwärtig im Streit um die Erwerbsbedingungen der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife behauptet.