A wide range of initiatives are aimed at the "sovereign teaching" that dominates universities and their lecture-oriented learning formats. Dissatisfied with low learning yield, dialogically designed learning processes are ...

What challenges do mothers face after treating alcohol dependence? The study conducted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Forel Clinic focuses on mothers who have undergone in-patient or ...

The Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (Yearbook on vocational and economic pedagogy) provides an overview over the current state of relevant research. This section takes into account the broad thematic and ...

The Jahrbuch für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik provides an overview of the current state of relevant research. It thus takes into account the broad thematic and methodological spectrum of research and theory formation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against the background of analyzes on transformation, reflexive modernization and fleeting modernity, adult education is required to confront social processes of change, the dissolution of boundaries and structural upheavals. ...

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 ...

InKeeping autonomous driving alive, Göde Both studies the relationships between researchers and artefacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, ...

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” ...

Die Beratungspraxis ist ohne Methoden und Techniken nichts. Diese sind keine Selbstläufer, sondern funktionieren als Katalysatoren, um Prozesse anzustoßen und komplexe Beratungsanliegen bearbeiten zu können. Das Buch dient ...

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 ...

This volume provides in-depth examinations of a variety of individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from numerous large-scale studies from both the ...

The authors of the second GENDER special issue examine couple relationships as a central place where gender inequalities are (re) produced, compensated for or reduced. In the sense of a 'doing couple', 'doing gender' and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wie sehen die Lebensrealitäten von Frauen und Männern in den Lebensbereichen „Erwerbssystem“ und „Familie“ aus? Welche Interdependenzen und damit möglicherweise einhergehenden Ungleichheiten im Geschlechterverhältnis ergeben ...

The number of attended MINT training courses is of central importance for the development of professional competence in early MINT education. This is the conclusion reached in the thirteenth volume of the publication series ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The citizens of Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges to their career development nowadays. Over the span of their lifetime, they need to manage their careers, and make numerous decisions concerning education, ...

Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military ...

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 ...

Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world. Paradoxically, the development of resource-intensive social systems has done little to change the social imbalance. The author traces this paradox using ...

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. ...

Dinge und Raum stehen zunehmend im Mittelpunkt qualitativer Bildungsund Biographieforschung. Anknüpfend an die erziehungswissenschaftliche Diskussion um den Bildungsbegriff, diskutieren die Beiträge die Frage, welche neuen ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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” ...

Learning is a key issue in education. Being familiar with contemporary learning theory, therefore, is an essential prerequisite for education scholars and practitioners alike.

Der Band will dazu beitragen, differenziertere Ansätze zum theoretischen Verständnis von Weiblichkeitskonstruktionen zu entwickeln. Die Beiträge diskutieren unterschiedliche Aspekte wie Diskurse über Weiblichkeit, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Female circumcision is a phenomenon that causes different reactions from different perspectives. How do Somali women experience the practice in the context of migration? And what view do social workers and migrated Somali ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How should pedagogical staff in kindergartens deal with gender? Against the background of early pedagogical gender debates, this study offers an empirical insight into gender constructions of children, specialists and ...

The Children and Youth Welfare Report 2018, comprehensively describes the current situation and the more recent development of child and youth welfare in Germany. It is based on the data of the official child and youth ...

Accelerated forms of criminal proceedings have become enormously important in many jurisdictions. But how do authorities achieve this acceleration in practice? The author illustrates this using the example of the Swiss ...

Using virtue as an example, the study provides an insight into the normative and subjective orientations of young people in their everyday school context. The concept of virtue in previous educational debates is juxtaposed ...

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 ...

How is "gender" received by students of educational research, pedagogy and related fields? What are the students' views on gender issues? Based on the observation that interest in gender issues is perceived more as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The book is based on practical requirements for the management of quantitative research data in small to medium-sized research projects in the social sciences, which generate and analyse data, save original data and archive ...

Migration has influenced and changed the society of the Federal Republic of Germany, its working and living environments, in many ways. What tasks, but also what opportunities are there for social work in a society shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How has social work developed into a scientifically sound practice and how will social work continue to develop as a profession in the future? With this publication, the author for the first time presents a comprehensive ...

Old and new order of the sexes: on the one hand - as neoconservatism says - men and women are completely equal: Equal opportunities seem to have been achieved. On the other hand, liberal individualism says that the differences ...

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 ...

This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression ...

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, ...

There are many political measures for equality in the profession, but why do they still lack the resounding success? What dynamics are at work in the implementation and enforcement of these measures, and how can equality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 yearbook 2006 deals with gender images and gender-typical expectations with which children, adolescents and young adults are confronted in the process of growing up. In addition, new perspectives on gender relations ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter's discussion offers a critical ...

The ChanceMINT.NRW project provides insights into professional practice, prepares students for their career entry and motivates them to shape the course of their studies with self-confidence. Together with partners from ...

The authors deal with empirical and theoretical questions of current vocational and business education research. In addition to disciplinary reflections and analyses on teaching/learning research in vocational education ...