Sektion Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

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Cholestase

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Educational Research in a Meritocratic Society

Educational research deserving the name is bound to be closely related not only to the pressing problems of the practitioners in the field, but to the burning issues which policy makers try to come to grips with as well. Even though (Husén & Kogan, Eds., 1984) – and rightly so – researchers, as true academics, often emphasize the importance of tackling fundamental problems, they cannot avoid being affected by the priorities set by the policy makers. These priorities are reflected in how research funds are allocated to various fields. To be sure, researchers are like other human beings: they are not insensitive to money. Like bees they tend to flock to the flowers where the most attractive nectar is to be found.     

Directors

Donald C. Willis' The Films of Frank Capra (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$7.50)

Mervyn LeRoy (as told to Dick Kleiner) Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (New York: Hawthorn, 1974---$10.00)

Willi Frischauer's Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Morrow, 1974---$7.95)

Raymond Durgnat's The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock. or the Plain Man's Hitchock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974---$15.00)

Stig Bjorkman, Torsten banns, and Jonas Sima's Bergman on Bergman" Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974---$9.95)

Jean Renoir's My Life and My Films (New York: Atheneum, 1974---$10.00)

Alfred Appel's Nabokov's Dark Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)     

Forthcoming Conferences

Thirty 14‐15‐year‐old pupils were taught about the effect of temperature and pressure on a gaseous reaction at equilibrium. Two problems were then given to the pupils and a word association test on a small number of carefully chosen stimulus words was administered in the context of the problems. The pupils were finally interviewed about what they had done in the tests. The results of all of the tests were analysed and compared for evidence of perception and strategy.

Various strategies were found to have been used by the pupils: one based on the formally correct perception of Le Chatelier's rule, one based on a perception in which the speed of a reaction is the factor that governs position of equilibrium (this was the major incorrect strategy), one that uses spurious analogies with more familiar factors (such as ‘catalyst') and one that reflects only superficial learning with no evidence of Le Chatelier's principle.

Comparisons with the classroom tests and the interview data revealed that about 60% of the word association test results produced responses that were criterial for the problem‐solving strategies adopted by the pupils, both correct and incorrect. The results show that this type of word association offers a means of unobtrusive, formative testing which, with experience, could be used to anticipate learning problems in science lessons.     

Determinants of stable volunteering in Swiss soccer clubs

This study analysed the underlying determinants of soccer club volunteers’ tendency to continue or terminate their voluntary engagement. Stable voluntary engagement was analysed in terms of volunteers’ subjective expectations regarding club-related working conditions, expressed by level of job satisfaction and orientation of collective solidarity to their soccer club. These relationships were tested empirically using an online questionnaire with 345 volunteers in a selection of 20 Swiss soccer clubs. The results indicate that the volunteers’ job satisfaction and orientation toward collective solidarity correlated positively with their volunteering commitment. The discussion presents recommendations to help both Swiss soccer clubs as well as the Swiss Soccer Association to retain their volunteers more effectively.