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Gleichstellungspolitik in der Schweiz
(2018)
Das Buch untersucht die umstrittene Institutionalisierung der schweizerischen Gleichstellungspolitik seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre vor allem im Bereich der Erwerbsarbeit und der staatlichen Gleichstellungsinstitutionen. Im ...
Bilinguale Interaktion beim Peer-Learning in der Grundschule
(2020)
Die vorliegende Studie versucht einen Beitrag zur Erforschung von Implementationsmöglichkeiten des bilingualen Sprachvermögens von Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund für den Regelschulkontext zu leisten, indem ein ...
Russia and China
(2017-10-23)
This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political marriage of convenience. Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral ...
Mentale und physische Gesundheit im Alter
(2020)
How do changes in the financial situation affect different dimensions of health in old age? In empirical analyzes using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the author examines ...
Die Neumitgliederwerbung von SPD und CDU im Vergleich
(2021)
Is the loss of members of German popular parties an unstoppable scenario of decline or a reversible phenomenon? The first systematic research shows in a comparative analysis of the strategies of the German parties CDU and ...
Elternschaft und Familie jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit
(2020)
Rainbow family, insemination family, multi-parent family: These terms try to understand the phenomenon that parenthood and family are realized in diverse constellations. They are caught between empirical diversity and ...
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 ...
Die Erfahrung von Armut
(2021)
The book examines poverty on the basis of qualitative interviews and makes clear that the term conceals an entire lifeworld. Great Britain as the area of study is seen as the prototype of a ‘neoliberal’ welfare state in ...
Violence against Women and Ethnicity
(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 ...
Soziale Arbeit – Kernthemen und Problemfelder (Volume 1)
(2017)
The series "Social Work - Fundamentals" provides a clear introduction to the subject. Volume 1 presents core topics and problem areas of social work. Which topics are central to the professional discourses of professional ...
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 ...
Elementar – Männer in der pädagogischen Arbeit mit Kindern
(2012)
The demand for more men as pre-school teachers in day-care centres is becoming clearer and clearer For this reason, the Austrian research project "Elementar" has comprehensively investigated the situation of male pre-school ...
Handbuch Inklusion international / International Handbook of Inclusive Education
(2021)
Global paradigm, national norms and local practices. The International Handbook of Inclusive Education combines theoretical approaches and myriad comparative perspectives on inclusive education considering its global ...
ETAs Exil in Mexiko
(2020)
Bewegungen
(2020)
Bewegungen sind konstitutiv für das Pädagogische. Menschliche Entwicklungsprozesse, pädagogische Beziehungen wie pädagogische Organisationen sind nur als Veränderungen in der Zeit, als Bewegungen, denkbar. Fragen der ...
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 ...
Die Darstellung Subsahara-Afrikas im deutschen Schulbuch
(2018-05-28)
Schulbücher haben innerhalb der Schule eine große Bedeutung für die Gestaltung des Unterrichts. Das Thema Subsahara-Afrika spielt sowohl in der hiesigen Gesellschaft als auch in Schulbüchern eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. ...
Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method
(2010)
You need to work with qualitative methods, especially the Documentary Method? This is your book: The first systematic introduction related to the application of the Documentary Method on group discussions, interviews, films ...
Gender Equality in Context
(2016)
Gender Equality has not yet been achieved in many western countries. Switzerland in particular has failed as a forerunner in integrating women in politics and economy. Taking Switzerland as a case study, the authors ...
The Good Cause
(2010)
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on ...
Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education
(2012)
How to identify, analyse, and assess the various types of adult learning needs? How to develop programmes tailored to these needs? This study guide is written for postgraduate students preparing to become professional adult ...
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, ...
Learning and Teaching in Adult Education
(2011)
Learning is a key issue in education. Being familiar with contemporary learning theory, therefore, is an essential prerequisite for education scholars and practitioners alike.
Theories in Adult Learning and Education
(2011)
Adult Learning and Education The graduate student guide in adult education explores theories of adult learning and adult education participation. It provides a frame of reference for understanding the development of a ...
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 ...
Theorien in der qualitativen Bildungsforschung
(2016-09-26)
Theorie, Methode und Gegenstand sind in der qualitativen Bildungs- und Biographieforschung eng miteinander verflochten. Die Beiträge fragen nach der Gegenstandsangemessenheit von Theorien, nach der Beziehung zwischen ...
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. ...
Experiences of Intervention Against Violence
(2016)
The stories in this anthology emerged from interviews with women and young people about their experience of intervention when they were escaping a situation of abuse, neglect and/or sexual exploitation. They come from the ...
Health Among the Elderly in Germany
(2014)
Whether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental ...
Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?
(2010)
The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the ...
Early Science Education
(2017)
Scientific contributions authored by distinguished experts from the field of early education are published periodically within the framework of the series Scientific Studies on the Work of the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” ...
Doing Democracy Differently
(2017)
Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democracy in such networks remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. ...
Economic Competence and Financial Literacy of Young Adults
(2016)
The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and ...
Mobile Entrepreneurs
(2018)
Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly ...
Research and Development in Adult Education
(2010)
The importance of adult education is growing steadily— be it in relation with migration, matters of inclus - ion, the work place etc. Thus, this international perspective on the most important research issues in adult ...
The Base of the Iceberg
(2014)
Alan Rogers looks at learning (formal, nonformal and informal) and examines the hidden world of informal (unconscious, unplanned) learning. He points out the importance of informal learning for creating tacit attitudes and ...
Building on Progress
(2011)
This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the ...
Building on Progress
(2011)
This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the ...
Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey
(2016-04-18)
Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union ...
International Relations
(2013-04-10)
The book is written for active learners ñ those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, ...
A United Nations Renaissance
(2017-12-04)
This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and workings with practical ...
The End of Welfare as We Know It?
(2014-01-22)
During the last 30 years, the governments of many Western countries have repeatedly called for an end to welfare. While the virtue of this goal and the means of achieving it continue to be debated in politics, much of ...
Ikonische Macht
(2016)
Bilder sind Teil der medialen Öffentlichkeit, sie konstruieren Gesellschaft. Wie machtvoll sind sie dabei? Die Autorin untersucht die soziale Gestaltung von Pressebildern in Tageszeitungen. In Feininterpretationen werden ...
„Uns wurde die Würde genommen“
(2019)
Die Heime der Brüdergemeinde Korntal und Wilhelmsdorf sind ein weiteres „Fallbeispiel“ für die Heimwirklichkeit in den ersten Jahrzehnten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Diese war für viele Kinder gekennzeichnet durch eine ...
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 ...
Weiblichkeit – Ansätze zur Theoretisierung
(2018)
Der Band will dazu beitragen, differenziertere Ansätze zum theoretischen Verständnis von Weiblichkeitskonstruktionen zu entwickeln. Die Beiträge diskutieren unterschiedliche Aspekte wie Diskurse über Weiblichkeit, ...
Deutschland und seine östlichen Nachbarn
(2020)
Für Deutschland und die westliche Staatengemeinschaft kam die Annexion der Krim durch Russland im Jahr 2014 überraschend. Die Folgen für die internationale Staatengemeinschaft sind gravierend. Welche Entwicklung nehmen die ...
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 ...
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 ...
Queertheoretische Perspektiven auf Bildung
(2017)
Der Band knüpft an die queertheoretischen Infragestellungen der zweigeschlechtlichen Ordnung an. Im Kontext der Vielfältigkeit geschlechtlicher und sexueller Identitäten sind Prozesse von Bildung, Erziehung und Sozialisation ...
ZISU – Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung
(2016)
Unterricht wurde lange ausschließlich als Diskurs untersucht, aber jeder Unterricht erfordert auch einen fachbezogenen und didaktischen Umgang mit materiellen Dingen. In dem neuen ZISU-Band fragen die AutorInnen aus der ...
Sozialisation von Jugendlichen in geschlechtsuntypischen Berufslehren
(2017)
Lernende in geschlechtsuntypischen Berufsausbildungen werden häufig mit diskriminierenden Reaktionen konfrontiert. Der Autor arbeitet heraus, dass die Bewältigung dieser Erfahrungen entscheidend für den erfolgreichen ...
„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 ...
Participation and Reconciliation
(2011)
In order to make justice work, participation and reconciliation is needed within and between societies, peoples, and nations. In this compilation, authors—senior academics as well as students-- from Bethlehem University, ...
Genderkompetenz in pädagogischer Interaktion
(2013)
Geschlechterstereotypen werden in Unterricht und Erziehung gewollt oder ungewollt transportiert. Von Jungen erwarten wir eher Stärke und Unkonzentriertheit, von Mädchen eher Fleiß und Angepasstheit. Diese Problematik wird ...
European Strategies in Lifelong Learning
(2011)
Lifelong learning and education is a key concept for the development of adult education as an area of practice and theoretical consideration. In recent decades, meanwhile, the idea of lifelong education and learning has ...
Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft 2020
(2020)
The data report presents the structural development of educational science and is commissioned every four years by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE). The publication aims to inform the field-specialized ...
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 ...
Videoanalysen von Fernsehshows und Musikvideos
(2017)
Fernsehshows und Musikvideos sind komplexe Kulturdokumente. Ihre filmische Gestaltung erfordert das Zusammenspiel hochspezialisierter Personengruppen vor und hinter der Kamera. Nicht nur Drehbuch und Darsteller prägen den ...
Dokumentarische Methode: Triangulation und blinde Flecken
(2019)
The volume discusses the possibilities and limits of the documentary method in terms of basic theory, methodology and methodology. Triangulation is important in two ways: as a research practice in itself and as a way of ...
Lernumgebungen
(2016)
In erfolgreichen, guten Schulen werden Lehren und Lernen durch die bauliche Umgebung bestmöglich unterstützt – aus Schul- und Lernräumen sollten also Lebensräume werden. Um dies zu erreichen müssen erziehungswissenschaftliche, ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2019
(2019)
Das Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand einschlägiger Forschung. Mit diesem Zuschnitt wird dem breiten thematischen und methodologischen Spektrum der Forschung und ...
Zieldimensionen für Multiplikatorinnen und Multiplikatoren früher MINT-Bildung
(2019)
Im Rahmen der Schriftenreihe „Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Arbeit der Stiftung ‚Haus der kleinen Forscher‘“ werden regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Beiträge von renommierten Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich der ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Professionalisierung in Lernberatungsgesprächen
(2012)
In the process of professionalising teachers, not only knowledge and skills on a more fundamental level but also understanding and one's own positions on teaching and learning develop. Learning and professionalisation ...
Ohne Abschluss in die Bildungsgesellschaft
(2005)
Education is and will probably remain the all-dominant topic of the 21st century. The consequences of a lack of or exclusion from education must be correspondingly dramatic. In the economic and sociological labour market ...
Praxis der Individualisierung
(2014)
How do individualised support arrangements for children with special educational needs come about in integrative/inclusive teaching? The author describes how different understanding of cooperation between occupational ...
Wegbegleitung, Trost und Hoffnung
(2013)
What may be done when a person is dying? Accompany and thus give comfort - but how? The contributions of this interdisciplinary volume give professional or individual advice to people confronted with death on how to support ...
Lehr-Lernforschung und Professionalisierung
(2011)
Vocational training research The main topics of teaching-learning research and professionalisation are analysed both empirically and theoretically from the perspective of current research projects. The focus is on the ...
Gemeinsam Karriere machen
(2011)
More and more women are pursuing a career, and the vast majority of women with a career (inside and outside academia) have a partner who is also pursuing a career. This poses many questions: What does it mean that the ...
Intersektionalität und Gouvernementalität
(2017)
Which power logics work in the interpretation of prostitution as a problem of individual moral leadership on the one hand and as a political problem for society as a whole on the other? The author combines two key concepts ...
Ambulante Hilfe zur Erziehung und Sozialraumorientierung
(2014)
The current political discourse on the "further development and control of child and youth welfare" attempts to discredit and repress outpatient help for upbringing. The present "plea" interferes professionally and politically ...
Diversität lernen und lehren – ein Hochschulbuch
(2018)
Diversity management is a task that a university must face as an overall organisation. The volume provides a comprehensive look at diversity management at higher education institutions. In practical contributions, diversity ...
Ökonomische Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung
(2016)
How can economic education enable us to shape a sustainable transformation of our economic system in the face of man-made social and ecological crises? The author prepares models from Ecological Economics and Environmental ...
Transitionen in der Erwachsenenbildung
(2015)
In view of social transitions, transitions are becoming an important topic of adult education research and professionalism. The authors show research contexts and practical references and explain important terms such as ...
Biografie – Lebenslauf – Generation
(2017)
People interpret their biographies in order to give them a subjective meaning. In institutionalized biographies, biographies also become normatively charged patterns of progress. They reflect the tension between life courses ...
Junge Frauen mit Lernschwierigkeiten zwischen Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung
(2017)
In a participatory research project with women with learning difficulties, the author has researched questions relating to self-determination and self-determination and presents the results here. Through the active involvement ...
Differente Lernkulturen – regional, national, transnational
(2016)
In contrast to earlier debates on the subject of "learning cultures", regional, national and transnational perspectives are added today - learning cultures are constituted in different ways at different levels. There is ...
Familien mit multipler Elternschaft
(2017)
How is family life structured and lived beyond current family models? In the articles on family forms with multiple parenthood, the authors describe the connections and quantitative distribution of adoptive, foster, step ...
Frühe mathematische Bildung – Ziele und Gelingensbedingungen für den Elementar- und Primarbereich
(2017)
Within the framework of the publication series "Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Arbeit der Stiftung 'Haus der kleinen Forscher'", scientific contributions from renowned experts in the field of early education are ...
Autonomie und Struktur in Selbstlernarchitekturen
(2008)
The authors examine the form and dynamics of self-learning processes within the institutional contexts of professionalization in teacher education.
Wirkungsevaluation mobiler Jugendarbeit
(2017)
Mobile youth work is a social support service for a particularly vulnerable target group. The present study on four institutions of mobile youth work in Austria captured the high complexity of the dynamics and interrelations ...
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 ...
Gewalt als soziales Problem in Schulen
(2006)
The book includes an analysis and presentation of forms, extent and causes of school violence. In addition, the possibilities of violence prevention and intervention in schools are presented. The first edition (out of ...
Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2013
(2013)
Vocational education and training in Germany, especially the Dual System of Vocational Education and Training, is receiving great attention and appreciation in some EU countries, not least against the background of very ...
Soziale Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung
(2017)
Under what conditions can gender equality and social gender justice in science and research in general be achieved? What concrete and effective measures are there to undermine some contrary practices? The book is aimed at ...
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 ...