Lernen im Museum – theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Befunde

In this paper, the authors want to relate the issue of “learning in museums” with “aesthetic education”. The contribution is focused on the voluntary and self-organized learning in museums. The objects and the variety of their presentations in regard to the visitor are analyzed, focusing the polymorphism of learning processes, related to aesthetic experiences. This heterogeneous field is reflected from the perspective of visitor research, museology and educational psychology by reflecting the conceptualization of learning processes, their identification by empirical research and the intersection of the different perspectives. Finally, open questions and perspectives for further research concerning learning in museums are discussed.     

Emotionsethnologische Untersuchungen zu Scham und Besch?mung in der Schule

At school, adolescents experience a variety of shame and shaming situations, which accompany important processes of social inclusion and exclusion. Shame could thereby be understood as a form of ??social fear?? constituting an emotional dimension, which specifically promotes social conformity. However, there are surprisingly few contributions from the fields of education science or school-sociology concentrating on this subject-matter. Therefore, within our emotion-anthropological study on ??multi-cultural?? classrooms, we give special emphasis on the theme of shame. The central question of this article is: What are the social functions of shame in the school context? Moreover: To what extent do differing cultural standards influence the experience and expression of shame? Our results show that shame-related situations in everyday school life, among others, are defined by peer norms. Furthermore, the forms of emotion-reactions demonstrate how behavior patterns are mediated by their social and cultural contexts. Shame and shaming constitute significant emotional dimensions in every-day school life. Future studies examining this theme, particularly in heterogeneous contexts, would only enrich the debate on questions of school culture.     

Zwischen Schule und Universität: Argumentation in der Mathematik

Several studies show that university students in Germany still have problems in reasoning mathematically although this already should be fostered at high school since the implementation of standards for school mathematics. Mathematical argumentation is a core competence and highly important, especially in academic mathematics. To foster mathematical argumentation at the beginning of university studies, competence models are needed which give more detailed insights in the skills that are necessary for reasoning. As mathematical argumentation is a complex process, especially at the higher secondary level or at university, many little steps are needed to complete a competence model for argumentation at the secondary–tertiary transition gradually. A possible step can be to initially identify several aspects of mathematical argumentation competence that influence the reasoning quality. The empirical basis for identifying those aspects is a cross-sectional study with 439 engineering students who participate in a transition course in mathematics. We address the following questions: (1) how is the quality of student’s reasoning? (2) Which kind of arguments do students use? (3) What resources do students who reasoned correctly use for solving the problems? (4) Does the content of the tasks play an important role? The results show a great influence of the content on the reasoning quality, especially if the content is abstract or concrete. Argumentation quality of students decreases with an increasing level of abstraction of the content. Furthermore, the results reveal that students often use routines for solving the problems. That indicates that procedural approaches still play an important role in school mathematics. If procedures could be used for solving the tasks, students are more successful. Competence models for mathematical argumentation at the beginning of the tertiary level should, therefore, include these factors.     

Die Bildungsfinanzierung in Deutschland im Licht der Lebenszyklusperspektive: Gerechtigkeit im Widerstreit mit Effizienz?

Theoretisch und empirisch l?sst sich ein Lebenszyklus der Bildungsfinanzierung belegen, in dem die Ertr?ge von Bildungsinvestitionen mit zunehmendem Alter tendenziell abnehmen. Dabei sind die Ertr?ge im frühkindlichen Bereich tendenziell h?her für Kinder aus sozial benachteiligten Schichten, w?hrend sie im Erwachsenenbereich tendenziell h?her sind für Personen, die bereits eine hochwertige Bildung genossen haben. Damit gibt es zwischen Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz einen Einklang in frühen Phasen und einen Widerstreit in sp?ten Phasen des Bildungslebenszyklus. Im Gegensatz zu dem von der Lebenszyklusperspektive nahe gelegten Muster sind die ?ffentlichen Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich relativ gering im frühkindlichen und Grundschulbereich und relativ hoch im Terti?rbereich. Eine Verlagerung der ?ffentlichen Bildungsausgaben aus den sp?ten in die frühen Phasen des Bildungslebenszyklus würde die deutsche Bildungsfinanzierung sowohl gerechter als auch effizienter machen.     

Vorzug Ganztagsschule? Zusammenhänge mit der Kompetenzentwicklung im Bereich Lesen und Mathematik

Politicians and scientists are pinning their hopes on the expansion of the provision of all-day school, assuming that these programs provide particularly favorable conditions for supporting students’ cognitive skills. Against this background, this paper examines whether and under what conditions participation in all-day schooling is connected with the development of competencies in the domains of reading and mathematics. Using data from Starting Cohort 3 of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), our research considers different forms of all-day schools, the usage of extracurricular learning activities, as well as student ratings of the attractiveness of extracurricular activities. Furthermore, selective access to different school types and usage of extracurricular activities is carefully controlled for. The results show a positive association between student-rated attractiveness of extracurricular activities and competence development. Neither the organization of schooling nor participation in learning activities show significant independent main effects on competence development from grade five to seven.     

Welche Rolle spielt neben Merkmalen des Instruktionsdesigns die fachspezifische und aufgabenspezifische Motivation beim Lernen mit Multimedia im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht?

The present paper reports on an empirical study which investigated learning with text and animations in the science classroom. In a 2?×?2 design the presence of multimedia learning material instruction (text only vs. text + animations) as well as the modality of the explanatory text (spoken vs. written) were tested. Prior to learning, students’ motivation to learn was assessed as a continuous factor. Recall and transfer were assessed immediately after learning. The results show better recall of information for learners with multimedia materials, providing the animations were accompanied by spoken text. However, in contrast to the positive effects of domain-specific motivation this multimedia effect was not evident for transfer. The effects of multimedia design were independent of motivation. Implications for future studies are discussed.     

Sozialpädagogik als Bildungstheorie und Bildungspolitik im Kaiserreich. Der Sozialpädagogikbegriff in der Deutschen Schule zwischen 1897 und 1914

“Deutsche Schule”, the journal of the German Association of Teachers, was an important forum for the social education debate during the German empire. The author describes this discussion, which took place between 1897 and 1914, on the basis of essays published in the “Deutsche Schule”. Central is the relation between educational task and theory. Within the generally accepted educational task of strengthening the unity of the cultural nation, this early social education debate developed into a controversial discussion over the social and sociological elements of education policy and theory.     

Brauchen Jungen m?nnliche Vorbilder, um in der Schule erfolgreich zu sein?

Not just in Germany, but also in other countries of the western world, gender-specific educational success has changed within the last decades: Whereas boys showed higher educational achievements in the 1960s, today it is the girls who obtain higher educational certificates. A number of scholars have pointed to the absence of male role models in boys?? social environment (family and school) as a reason for their worsening school performance. In this article, we use data from the German Micro-census 2008 to analyze the following question: Does it make a difference for boys?? and girls?? transition to academic track secondary school (Gymnasium) whether they grow up in a nuclear family or with single-mothers or single-fathers? The results of the analyses yield no evidence for the claim that the absence of fathers in the family has a negative impact on boys?? performance at school.     

Wirkungen zentraler Abschlussprüfungen im Mehrebenensystem Schule. Eine Zwischenbilanz internationaler und nationaler Befunde und Forschungsdesiderata

Statewide exit exams have become a central governance instrument at the end of secondary schooling in Germany. In the article, the current state of research in Germany is systematized from an international comparative perspective in relation to intended and unintended effects. Findings regarding state exam policies and effects at the school and instructional level are presented as an interim report on a comparably young field of research. The findings show differences by states, subjects and courses which suggest that there is no general effect of statewide exams. In this context, future research should account for the heterogeneity of exam procedures to a greater degree.     

Kontaktgestörte Kinder in Schule und Heim,I. Arbeitstagung der Deutschen Schulpsychologen in Hamburg,Mai 1959

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Access for All? Sozialinvestitionen in der frühkindlichen Bildung und Betreuung im europäischen Vergleich

The importance of investing in early childhood is widely acknowledged in policy circles. Particularly formal Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is seen as key to creating equal opportunities and combating poverty by increasing educational achievement of children and supporting parental employment. This social investment perspective has in recent decades supported the rapid development and expansion of ECEC in most European countries. However, the international social investment discourse masks fundamental differences in European ECEC systems and detracts attention from the way ECEC is embedded in the wider welfare regime of a country. This paper critically examines the ‘social investment potential’ of ECEC systems by comparing an early social investment country, Sweden, with two ‘late movers’, the UK and Germany. It argues that investing in ECEC is not per se a panacea for social inclusion. To the contrary, if not combined with other, partly ‘traditional’ equality measures both in education and social protection, ECEC investment may have the opposite effect of increasing social inequality.     

Gesten und Habitus im pädagogischen Gebrauch. Ein historischer Vergleich der Entwicklung von Gesten und Körperhabitus im Unterricht der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1945

The authors argue that learning is not only a process basing on speech but as well one of the body. Learning also includes civilizing the body, being able to control the muscles and the emotions and to behave in different contexts. Each institution and culture develops modes of bodily behavour. Institutions like schools, societies and political systems present different models that are to be learned. The question of the following article is that which models for pupils the two German systems had developed and how these where performed by the pupils. The autors show that the model of the diligent pupil was present in both systems, because the behaviour connected to this model is functionally adequate for learning. Western Germany also promoted the model of the “pensive” pupil which was mainly presented for male students. The GDR developed the “socialist pupil personality” that included a political role as an activist and “polytechnics”. But it was difficult to find an own presentation for that. From the sixties on the model ressembled more and more that of the diligent pupil.     

Die Schweiz im Abseits? Bestimmende Themen der Pädagogik zwischen 1945 und 1954

This article deals with the educational Situation in post‐war Switzerland between 1945 and 1954. The author describes three processes which took place during this period. On the basis of an analysis of two educational journals, the “Schweizerische Lehrerzeitung” and the “Schweizer Schule”, the author distin‐guishes a phase of irritation, followed by a time of isolation. The third phase (around 1954) was characterized by integrating forces which manoeuvred the educational development in Switzerland into a position between collaboration with processes from abroad and position taking. ^{1 1}Überarbeitetes Referat, gehalten anlässlich der Jahrestagung 1993 der Historischen Kommission der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehung in Thumau bei Bayreuth, 21. September 1993.

     

Die Mitwirkungsbefugnisse der Betriebsratsvorsitzenden im Universit?tsrat

Mit dem Universit?tsrechts-?nderungsgesetz 2009, BGBl 2009/81, wurden die Mitwirkungsrechte der Betriebsr?te im Universit?tsrat gest?rkt. Zweck dieser Neuerung war es die Betriebsr?te in die Lage zu versetzen, ihre arbeitsverfassungsrechtlichen Befugnisse gegenüber der Universit?tsleitung noch wirksamer als bisher vertreten zu k?nnen. Die neuen Instrumente umfassen das Recht auf Einladung und Teilnahme an den Sitzungen und das Recht auf Stellung von Antr?gen, das freilich gewissen Einschr?nkungen unterliegt. Neu hinzugekommen ist auch die Befugnis, zus?tzliche Punkte auf die Tagesordnung der Sitzungen des Universit?tsrats setzen zu lassen sowie ein diesbezügliches Stimmrecht. Dieses ist jedoch an die Kompetenzen des Universit?tsrats und die bestehenden arbeitsverfassungsrechtlichen Befugnisse der Betriebsr?te geknüpft. Schlie?lich haben Betriebsr?te nun auch ein Recht auf Zustellung von Protokollabschriften. Insgesamt handelt es sich um nicht unerhebliche neue Kontrollbefugnisse mit pr?ventiver Funktion. Der folgende Beitrag untersucht die neue Rechtslage rechtsdogmatisch und zeigt die Inhalte, aber auch die Grenzen der neuen Mitwirkungsbefugnisse auf.     

Der romantische Kindheitsmythos und seine Kontinuitäten in der Pädagogik und in der Kindheitsforschung

Der Beitrag diskutiert aus der Perspektive historischer Sozialisationsforschung gegenw?rtige Bilder vom Kind. Er skizziert die Grundzüge des romantischen Kindheitsmythos um 1800 und analysiert seine Kontinuit?ten in der P?dagogik um 1900 und an der Wende zum 21. Jahrhundert. Er zeigt, dass sowohl dem aktuellen Bestseller von Elschenbroich „Das Weltwissen der Siebenj?hrigen“ (2001), als auch Positionen der zeitgen?ssischen Kindheitsforschung durchaus romantische Elemente zugrunde liegen. Kritisch befragt werden in diesem Zusammenhang sowohl das Konzept der „Selbstsozialisation“, als auch die Annahme vom Verschwinden der Differenz zwischen Kindern und Erwachsenen. Der Beitrag endet mit einem Fazit, in dem Gründe für die Attraktivit?t des Kindheitsmythos aufgeführt sowie Forschungsfragen und -probleme er?rtert werden.