Publications
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The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
(2013)
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland are increasingly relying on hybridization at the nexus of vocational training and higher education to increase permeability and reform their highly praised systems of collective skill ...
Unerfüllte Kinderwünsche und Reproduktionsmedizin
(2017)
Wer sind die Paare, die sich an die Reproduktionsmedizin wenden? Wie ist die Kinderwunschbehandlung in die Lebensverläufe der Paare eingebettet? Wie gestaltet sich der Entscheidungsprozess für die Nutzung der Reproduktionsmedizin ...
Gleichstellungspolitik an Hochschulen
(2020)
What knowledge do professors have about gender and equality issues and how do they implement equality in their key areas of activity - as managers in research, teaching and academic self-administration? The aim of the ...
Bildung als Perspektive für Care Leaver?
(2019)
In the book, the results of a study are presented, with the help of which systematic knowledge about the educational, training and professional situation of Care Leavern in Austria was obtained for the first time and in ...
Klassische Theorien Sozialer Arbeit und soziale Bewegungen
(2023)
Social work has repeatedly placed itself in relation to social movements – but has not defined this relationship further. This book empirically explores the relationship of social work to social movements and looks at the ...
The vignette as an exercise in perception / Η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης
(2023)
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation ...
Zur Doppelbödigkeit des Unterrichts als Bühne
(2023)
Which practices and dynamics can be identified in the interaction between teachers and students? How is the interactional order of teaching established and maintained? What insights can the documentary method and depth ...
Care in konsensuell-nichtmonogamen Beziehungsnetzwerken
(2019)
Polyamory and other non-monogamous relationships are becoming increasingly visible. They are often seen as a more self-determined and gender-equitable alternative to conventional marriage and family. The Marxist, feminist ...
Wissenschaftskarrieren und Gender Bias
(2024)
What form does social change take with regard to equal opportunities in academic careers? How can gender bias be counteracted structurally and sustainably? The anthology pursues a double focus on this change towards an ...
Geschlechterreflektierte Pädagogik gegen Rechts
(2015)
Anyone who deals with neo-Nazi prevention must consider the category of gender, because gender is a core aspect of neo-Nazi ideology and life. The contributions examine this point of view as well as the pedagogical and ...
Addressing Inequality – Erziehungs- und sozialwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Subjektivierungsforschung
(2024)
This volume is dedicated to the relevance of subjectivation research in educational science and related disciplines. It combines basic theoretical and methodological contributions to subjectification research with analyses ...
Wissenschaftsdidaktik als kritische Kommunikationsanalyse
(2024)
What does communication mean for science and teaching? The authors take Ludwig Huber's idea of communication in science didactics a step further. With a descriptive-critical intention, communication of concrete sciences ...
Beratung im Kontext des Lebenslangen Lernens
(2019)
The volume is devoted to the increasing importance of advice in the context of lifelong learning. The contributions deal with the actors, concepts and organizations of advice as an opportunity for support as well as the ...
Bildung und Erziehung im Kontext globaler Transformationen
(2019)
Der Band widmet sich der Reflexion ausgewählter Aspekte von Bildung und Erziehung im Kontext globaler Transformationen. Die Beiträge untersuchen die Transformationsprozesse der Bildung für den globalen Süden sowie Europas ...
Violence against Women and Ethnicity: Commonalities and Differences across Europe
(2011)
This book draws together both: theory and practice on minority/migrant women and gendered violence. The interplay of gender, ethnicity, religion, class, generation and sexuality in shaping the lives, experiences and choices ...
Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für Personalentwicklung und Mitbestimmung
(2018)
The ability to innovate is a valuable asset for the IT industry. Special knowledge, farsightedness, problem-solving skills, productive collaboration and the willingness to think and act independently play a major role. In ...
Soziale Netzwerke in gemeinschaftlichen Wohnprojekten
(2014)
In recent years, communal housing projects - as a form of life between community and individuality - have become increasingly relevant in Germany. The social relationships among residents, however, have hardly been researched ...
Behinderung und Menschenrechte: Ein Verhältnis auf dem Prüfstand
(2014)
The author addresses two groundbreaking questions: What significance does the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have for special educational thinking and action? And how important is disability in the ...
Politik und Geschlecht
(2024)
What does gender studies in political science or feminist political science mean? The handbook offers a systematic overview of the dimensions that the consideration of the relationship between politics and gender entails ...
Armutsrisiko alleinerziehend
(2020)
This book investigates the reasons for lone mothers’ high poverty rates in Germany. It sheds some light on both the family and employment trajectories, and the institutional context. In quantitative analyses the poverty-enhancing ...
Friedenspädagogik und Gewaltfreiheit
(2015)
Peace has to be learned again and again - and peace education has to deal with the conditions for this in a new way. In this volume, current lines of argumentation of non-violence and peace education are measured in the ...
Gewalt als Risiko in der offenen Jugendarbeit
(2014)
How do professionals in open youth work deal with violence among young people? On the basis of an ethnographic study based on Grounded Theory, the author points out different processing strategies. The results show that ...
Paradigmenwechsel als Feld strukturellen Lernens
(2012)
Social changes create challenges. How can adult education meet these challenges? How do learning processes in companies change in the face of constant social transformation? Which learning cultures are sustainable? Birgit ...
Mittendrin?
(2014)
Older people today find themselves in a more favourable life situation than previous generations: Many of them have a high standard of living, a high level of education and good health. In view of this potential, the ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2016
(2016)
What questions does vocational and business education research deal with? The current yearbook provides answers to these questions: it addresses questions about the organisation, conditions and structures of vocational ...
Familientradition Hartz IV?
(2017)
The study addresses the question of how the biographies of people whose families remain in poverty for generations are structured. In addition, it provides detailed insights into the life of families in relation to ALG II ...
Politik der Differenzen
(2018)
The author deals with practices and debates on migration and ethnic differences, racism and anti-racism in the context of feminist activism in Vienna. In a longitudinal analysis from the 1980s to the 2010s, the work examines ...
Stiftungen, Zivilgesellschaft und soziale Differenz
(2019)
Stiftungen gelten als vielseitige Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft: Zum einen möchten sie öffentlich wirksam sein, darüber hinaus sind sie aber auch gemeinwohlorientiert. Das qualitativ empirisch angelegte Forschungsprojekt ...
Die Netzbewegung
(2018)
Die Netzbewegung setzt sich ein für Informationsfreiheit, Datenschutz und Netzneutralität, gegen Zensur und Überwachung, kurz: für ein freies Internet. Dabei positionieren sich die Aktivist_innen als Avantgarde der digitalen ...
Unternehmerfamilien
(2013)
This empirical study draws a portrait of modern entrepreneurial families - a social unit that has received little attention in scientific discourse so far. The terms life course, biography and everyday life are the guiding ...
Soziale Ungleichheit in der flexibilisierten Berufsbildung
(2018)
In Switzerland, "Lehrbetriebsverbünde" (apprenticeship company networks) represent a new model of vocational training. The author shows that the project-based organisation of this form of basic vocational training, in which ...
Körpermodifikationen und leibliche Erfahrungen in der Adoleszenz
(2019)
In her interdisciplinary work, Julia Ganterer examines the subject of body and inter-subjectivity of young adolescents from a socio-educational, body-phenomenological and gender-critical perspective. With the help of ...
„Wir haben ja jetzt auch ein paar Damen bei uns“ – Symbolische Grenzziehungen und Heteronormativität in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
(2018)
Engineering sciences in Germany remain a male domain, although for years, efforts have been made to balance gender relations in these areas. The author examines the question of whether and to what extent the asymmetrical ...
Interventions against child abuse and violence against women
(2019)
This book offers insights and perspectives from a study of “Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence” (CEINAV) in four EU-countries. Seeking a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of intervention practices ...
Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century
(2019)
This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable ...
Die OECD und die Bildungsplanung der freien Welt
(2017)
Durch Instrumente wie PISA erlangte und erhielt die OECD die Autorität, über Erfolg und Scheitern nationalstaatlicher Bildungspolitiken zu urteilen. Regula Bürgi beleuchtet aus historischer Perspektive die Denkstile und ...
Zwischen Sandkasten und Abschiebung
(2019)
Basierend auf einer mehrmonatigen Feldforschung beschreiben die AutorInnen das Leben junger Kinder in Unterkünften für geflüchtete Menschen. Insbesondere die räumlich-materielle Ausstattung der Unterkünfte wird in ihrer ...
Lernprozesse über die Lebensspanne
(2019)
In einem interdisziplinären Verständnis von personalen und sozialen Bildungs- und Lernprozessen über die Lebensspanne werden in kritisch-konstruktiver Sichtweise formale, non-formale und informelle Wissensbestände und ...
Frühe informatische Bildung – Ziele und Gelingensbedingungen für den Elementar- und Primarbereich
(2018)
Wie können Ziele und Gelingensbedingungen informatischer Bildung im Elementar- und Primarbereich aussehen? Mit Blick auf die pädagogisch-inhaltlichen Zieldimensionen informatischer Bildung geben Fachexpertinnen und -experten ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2018
(2018)
Das Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der einschlägigen Forschung. Mit diesem Zuschnitt wird dem breiten thematischen und methodologischen Spektrum der Forschung ...
Generation und Sexualität
(2020)
Die Grenzen der Erziehung revisited
(2024)
100 years after the publication of Bernfeld's critique of pedagogy, it still seems deeply entangled in the tension between what is normatively required and what is possible. The volume analyses current issues in school and ...
Psychoanalytische Pädagogik: Perspektiven auf das kindliche Spiel
(2024)
In his letters 'On the Aesthetic Education of Man', Schiller stated that man is only fully human when he plays. Following on from this, this volume sees children's play as the driving force behind their mental and spiritual ...
Ethik in der beruflichen Bildung
(2024)
What role does ethics play in vocational education? The subject of ethics is now firmly established at universities that train for professional fields such as nursing, medicine, social work and the police. In view of this ...
Leistungsbeurteilungen an Hochschulen lernförderlich gestalten
(2024)
How can university lecturers organise performance assessments as well as the assessment and feedback of learning outcomes in a way that is as conducive to learning as possible? The book offers application-orientated advice ...
Soziale Beziehungen und Leistungsmotivation
(2011)
The author deals empirically with the question of what role social relationships with parents and teachers play in motivating children and adolescents to learn and perform. In particular, the question of the long-term ...
Mehrdimensionale Bildung im Kontext Kommunaler Bildungslandschaften
(2009)
The book reflects the productive approaches of multidimensional educational concepts in the redesign of municipal educational landscapes against the background of expanded educational concepts and the current educational ...
Radical Approaches to Political Science
(2012-06-27)
This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing ...
Fathers in Work Organizations
(2017-04-24)
This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which ...
“Frozen conflicts” in Europe
(2015-11-16)
Oft forgotten but simmering “frozen conflicts” continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural ...
Sprache im italienischen Erdkundeunterricht
(2017)
The author examines linguistic challenges faced by learners at the end of lower secondary level in subject education. Her empirical data come from schools in Italy. It identifies discrepancies between learners' use of ...
Subjektwerden unter Bedingungen von outsiderness
(2023)
How do patterns of national inclusion and exclusion make themselves felt at school? What experiences do students have in their everyday school life? How are they shaped by these experiences? This empirical study examines ...
Kapitalismus und Naturzerstörung
(2017)
Historical-materialistic critique of common explanations of the social relationship to nature in capitalism brings to light idealistic, culturalistic and politicistic short-cuts. A critical theory of social nature relations ...
Durch Europäisierung zu mehr Durchlässigkeit?
(2017)
Life chances today are increasingly determined by school, vocational, university and further education. The author examines the permeability between vocational and higher education - an important prerequisite for enabling ...
Eine relationale Perspektive auf Lernen
(2012)
What can learning mean? Different approaches to learning theory represent a "relational view". The ontological premises, however, remain implicit. Thus, these approaches leave their conceptualizations of the human being ...
Regieren in der modernen Gesellschaft
(2016-05-23)
Wie lässt sich das Handeln der Regierung in modernen Gesellschaften theoretisch fassen? Schon die Autoren der amerikanischen Verfassung haben die Notwendigkeit erkannt, die Exekutivgewalt einzuhegen und sie mit der Legislative ...
Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation
(2018)
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact ...
The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education
(2016)
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. ...
Competence and Competence Development
(2012)
What are today’s main concepts and theories – and the main stakes – associated with the issue of competences in organisations? Several topics are discussed, including competence issues regarding the evolution of work, ...