Freie Schulwahl und Bildungsgerechtigkeit

One of the controversial points in the debate on schools choice is the problem of educational justice. Does the introduction of choice schemes decrease or increase social inequality within the education system? The objective of this contribution, which leads on from current debates in Anglo-Saxon moral and educational philosophy, is not to answer this question, but to analyze the apparent dissent. The role of normative principles and empirical assumptions on the situation will be investigated.     

2. Jürgen Oelkers (Hrsg.): Zukunftsfragen der Bildung. 43. Beiheft der Zeitschrift für Pädagogik

Ohne Zusammenfassung     

Effects of earnings-supplement policies on adult economic and middle-childhood outcomes differ for the "hardest to employ"

Data from the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the New Hope demonstration were used to determine whether experimental effects of antipoverty policies differ by parents' risk for nonemployment. Using propensity score analysis, increases in employment and income were largest in the harder-to-employ halves of both samples. However, only children in the moderately hard-to-employ quartiles (50th to 75th percentile) consistently showed improvements in school and behavior outcomes. The very-hardest-to-employ 25% experienced decreases in school engagement, and increases in aggressive behaviors, despite substantial increases in parental employment and income. In this group, increases in maternal depression, reductions in regular family routines, and smaller increases in job stability and center-based child care occurred. These factors may have counteracted the potential benefits of increased income on children.     

One leader,one school and an atypical South African educational landscape: The pedagogical viability of a shared technology project

Visionary leaders shape their actions and initiate transformation to reach a specific goal. To do so is critically important in South Africa, where the education system offers limited opportunities to manage a school in a manner that deviates from the prescribed norm. School leaders typically encounter barriers such as the inadequacy of the national educational budget, poor teaching and learning quality, limited curriculum offerings and insufficient learning resources. One entrepreneurial school leader nevertheless, successfully crossed the boundaries of income, culture, language and technology, and as a result now provides efficient and equal education to less privileged schools in the immediate vicinity of his school, in a rural area in Mpumalanga Province. This article reviews the proactive, innovative and visionary leadership of this principal and assesses the pedagogical justifiability of his entrepreneurship.     

Designing the Auditor: A Prototype of Locative Radio with Original Sound Content

Location-based sound media are similar to traditional radio in that they rely on communication in sound alone. The smartphone has GPS and Bluetooth, and it is easy to attach sound to locations like a rail station, a neighborhood, or a street. The research team designed a media prototype, Auditor, and produced a soundscape called “The Railroad Dialogues.” The medium and content were tested in a field trial with 42 young, urban headphone listeners. The article reports on the informants’ level of immersion in the sound content and interface, and considers their potential to supplement radio in the future.     

Learning subtraction in a special school: A self-in-structional training strategy for educable mentally retarded children with arithmetic deficits

The effect of self-instruction in solving subtraction problems was investigated in four children with arithmetic deficits in a special school for educable mentally retarded children. The children were trained individually to use self-instruction in solving subtraction problems with renaming. At the end of the training all four children had improved in solving subtraction problems. Follow-up probes, taken three months after the training had ended, showed that the effect was maintained.