Download or read book Demokratie Lernen im bildungstheoretischen Kontext Der Beitrag von partizipativen Methoden und theoretischen Konzeptionen written by Marius Hummitzsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Schulpädagogik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Veranstaltung: Demokratische Partizipation in der Schule, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Der freiheitliche, säkularisierte Staat lebt von Voraussetzungen, die er selbst nicht garantieren kann“ , so formulierte der Politikdidaktiker Böckenforde bereits 1967 das große Dilemma des modernen demokratischen Staates. Daraus ergibt sich, dass zur Erhaltung eben dieser demokratischen Ordnung eine Vermittlung von demokratischen Werten und Demokratiekonzepten insbesondere im institutionellen Bereich unabdinglich und daher von herausragender Bedeutung ist. Mit Blick auf den Charakter eben jener Vermittlung markiert das Stichwort des „Demokratie-Lernens“ einen absoluten Eckpfeiler und soll demgemäß im Rahmen dieser Arbeit einer detaillierten Betrachtung unterzogen werden. So werde ich zunächst versuchen den Begriff des „Demokratie-Lernens“ zu definieren und zu charakterisieren, wobei dies mit einigen Schwierigkeiten verbunden ist, da er in diversen Wissenschaftsbereichen verwendet wird. Es gilt also zunächst eine grundlegende Vorstellung vom Begriff selbst mit den jeweiligen fachspezifischen Unterschieden und Gemeinsamkeiten herauszuarbeiten, um im weiteren Verlauf (Kapitel 2.3.) die Relevanz des Demokratie-Lernens für das gesellschaftliche und institutionelle Funktionieren der Demokratie in Deutschland darlegen zu können. In Kapitel 3 möchte ich dann den Beobachtungsschwerpunkt auf die Realisierungsmöglichkeiten im schulischen Kontext setzen und dabei auch die konkrete und allgemein anerkannte Konzeption von Gerhard Himmelmann präsentieren und schließlich kritisch reflektieren. Mit der Frage warum Demokratie-Lernen in der Schule nur einhergehend mit genügend Partizipationsmöglichkeiten für die Schülerinnen und Schüler funktionieren kann, befasst sich das 4.Kapitel. Da dieser sehr „praxisnahe“ Bereich meiner Meinung nach von starkem Einfluss ist, werde ich an dieser Stelle mit Hilfe der „Schülervertretung“ am konkreten Beispiel aufzeigen, welche Effekte u.a. zu erwarten sind und warum eine reine Vermittlung politischen Wissens nicht zum Ziel des mündigen Bürgers führen kann. Abschließend wende ich mich zudem der vieldiskutierten Problematik zu, wer denn eigentlich in der Institution Schule die Verantwortung für die Vermittlung von Demokratiekompetenzen trägt und somit mit der Aufgabe des Demokratie-Lernens beauftragt ist oder auch beauftragt sein sollte.
Download or read book Interthinking Putting Talk to Work written by Karen Littleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, Interthinking: putting talk to work explores the growing body of work on how people think creatively and productively together. Challenging purely individualistic accounts of human evolution and cognition, its internationally acclaimed authors provide analyses of real-life examples of collective thinking in everyday settings including workplaces, schools, rehearsal spaces and online environments. The authors use socio-cultural psychology to explain the processes involved in interthinking, to explore its creative power, but also to understand why collective thinking isn’t always productive or successful. With this knowledge we can maximise the constructive benefits of our ability to interthink, and understand the best ways in which we can help young people to develop, nurture and value that capability.
Download or read book Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations written by Christian Helbig and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as organizational requirements for technology adoption. 3. Issues and challenges for designing and implementing digital transformation in learning organizations. 4. Case studies, empirical research findings, and examples from organizations which successfully adopted digital workplace learning.
Download or read book Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education written by Simona Sava and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 educators, as well as for those intending to plan educational programmes for adults. The book covers the various types of adult (learning)needs and provides hints on how to identify, analyse, and assess these needs. It presents typical challenges involved in performing such an analysis as well as theoretical considerations of the concept and types of needs, of diagnosing educational needs and their theoretical understanding. The author draws conclusions on how to develop programmes tailored to the needs identified. With a focus on practical concerns, she illustrates the necessary steps as well as the factors to be considered when designing an educational programme for adults, both in the planning stage and in the stages of implementation and evaluation. From the Contents: The Importance of Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education Needs: Theoretical Considerations Fields of Needs Analysis in an Educational Context Methods of Needs Analysis in Adult Education Needs Analysis for Planning Educational Programmes Steps in Programme Planning in Adult Education
Download or read book Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems written by Iver Mysterud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century presents an increasing number of environmental problems, including toxic pollution, global warming, destruction of tropical forests, extinction of biological diversity, and depletion of natural resources. These environmental problems are generally due to human behavior, namely over-consumption of resources and overpopulation. Designing effective policies to address these problems requires a deep understanding of human behavior as well as ecology. This in turn requires considerations of human nature, and the evolutionary "design" of the human mind.Evolutionary research on human behavior has profound implications for the environmental sciences. The aim of this collection is to bring together a variety of chapters that show how and why. Part 1, "Human Nature and Resource Conservation," addresses environmental problems from different evolutionary perspectives. Part 2, "The Ecological Noble Savage Hypothesis," examines the notion that our environmental problems are due to Western culture, and that our ancestors and people in indigenous societies lived in harmony with nature until the corrupting influences of Western culture. Part 3, "The Tragedy of the Commons," explores the conservation of common-pool or open-access natural resources, such as fisheries, forests, grazing lands, freshwater, and clean air. Part 4, "The Evolution of Discounting and Conspicuous Consumption," looks at the problem of explaining why people are so ecologically short-sighted and why people in developed countries consume so many resources. Part 5, "Overpopulation and Fertility Declines," addresses the evolution of human reproductive decisions. Part 6, "Biophilia," aims to explain why people cherish nature as well as destroy it.The goal of this volume is to introduce environmental thinkers to evolutionary perspectives on human behavior, and the new interdisciplinary sciences of evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology. This reader aims to help bridge
Download or read book Society of Fear written by Heinz Bude and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopardy. We are overwhelmed by a sense of having been catapulted into a world to which we no longer belong. Tracing this experience of fear, Heinz Bude uncovers a society marked by disturbing uncertainty, suppressed anger and quiet resentment. This is as true in our close relationships as it is in the world of work, in how we react to politicians as much as in our attitudes towards bankers and others in the financial sector. Bude shows how this fear is not derived so much from a 'powerful other' but rather from the seemingly endless range of possibilities which we face. While this may seem to offer us greater autonomy and freedom, in reality the unknown impact and meaning of each option creates a vacuum which is filled by fear. What conditions lead people to feel anxious and fearful for themselves and others? How can individuals withstand fear and develop ways of making their fears intelligible? Probing these and other questions, Bude provides a fresh analysis of some of the most fundamental features of our societies today.
Download or read book Transformative Learning and Identity written by Knud Illeris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current ever changing world – the liquid modernity – the most pressing psychological challenge to all of us is to create and maintain a personal balance between mental stability and mental flexibility. In Transformative Learning and Identity Knud Illeris, one of the leading thinkers on the way people learn, explores, updates and re-defines the concept and understanding of transformative learning while linking the concept of transformative learning to the concept of identity. He thoroughly discusses what transformative learning is or could be in a broader learning theoretical perspective, including various concepts of learning by change, as opposed to learning by addition, and ends up with a new, short and distinct definition. He also explores and discusses the concept of identity and presents a general model depicting the complexity of identities today. Building on the work of Mezirow, various perspectives of transformative learning are analysed and discussed, including; transformative learning in different life ages; progressive and regressive transformations; motivation and identity defence; development of identity; personality and competence, and transformative learning in school, education, working life, and in relation to current and future life conditions. This vital new book by one of the leading learning theorists of our time will prove of lasting interest to academics, teachers, instructors, leaders and researchers in the field of adult learning and education. It will also appeal to many students and researchers of psychology and sociology in general.
Download or read book Expanding the Boundaries of Transformative Learning written by E. O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. Such a shift involves our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations; our relationships with other humans and with the natural world; our understanding of relations of power in interlocking structures of class, race and gender; our body awarenesses; our visions of alternative approaches to living; and our sense of possibilities for social justice and peace and personal joy. The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning. The editors argue that transformative learning theory cannot be constructed in a content-neutral or context-free way. Their second challenge, which assumes the importance content for transformative learning, is to educators as practitioners. The editors argue that transformative learning requires new educational practices consistent with the content. Arts-based research and arts-based teaching/learning practices are one example of such new educational practices. Education for the soul, or spiritual practices such as meditation or modified martial arts or indigenous peoples' forms of teaching/learning, is another example. Each article in the collection presents a possible model of these new practices.
Download or read book The Sustainability Curriculum written by Cedric Cullingford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between education and sustainable development are deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly, for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to sustainability. Among professionals in higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own right, increasing public and professional familiarity with the term, and the increasing urgency of global calls for the implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and methods of enquiry. The contributors, drawn from a wide-range of disciplines, perspectives, educational levels and institutional contexts, examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education, which includes exploring links to social movements for sustainability projects, curriculum change, culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and global responsibility, and case studies on the transformation, or otherwise, of some specific disciplines.
Download or read book Longing and Belonging written by Allison J. Pugh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh finds that children's desires stem less from striving for status or falling victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children's need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act as passports in children's social worlds, because they sympathize with their children's fear of being different from their peers. Even under financial constraints, families prioritize children "feeling normal". Pugh masterfully illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong."--pub. desc.
Download or read book Contesting Democracy written by Byron E. Shafer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide a comprehensive history of two centuries of U.S. politics. Contributions from a who's who of political historians.
Download or read book Untersuchung der Bedeutung von Demokratie Lernen im bildungstheoretischen Kontext unter besonderer Ber cksichtigung des Beitrags von partizipativen Methoden und theoretischen Konzeptionen im schulischen Rahmen written by Marius Hummitzsch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Schulpädagogik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Veranstaltung: Demokratische Partizipation in der Schule, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Der freiheitliche, säkularisierte Staat lebt von Voraussetzungen, die er selbst nicht garantieren kann", so formulierte der Politikdidaktiker Böckenforde bereits 1967 das große Dilemma des modernen demokratischen Staates. Daraus ergibt sich, dass zur Erhaltung eben dieser demokratischen Ordnung eine Vermittlung von demokratischen Werten und Demokratiekonzepten insbesondere im institutionellen Bereich unabdinglich und daher von herausragender Bedeutung ist. Mit Blick auf den Charakter eben jener Vermittlung markiert das Stichwort des "Demokratie-Lernens" einen absoluten Eckpfeiler und soll demgemäß im Rahmen dieser Arbeit einer detaillierten Betrachtung unterzogen werden. So werde ich zunächst versuchen den Begriff des "Demokratie-Lernens" zu definieren und zu charakterisieren, wobei dies mit einigen Schwierigkeiten verbunden ist, da er in diversen Wissenschaftsbereichen verwendet wird. Es gilt also zunächst eine grundlegende Vorstellung vom Begriff selbst mit den jeweiligen fachspezifischen Unterschieden und Gemeinsamkeiten herauszuarbeiten, um im weiteren Verlauf (Kapitel 2.3.) die Relevanz des Demokratie-Lernens für das gesellschaftliche und institutionelle Funktionieren der Demokratie in Deutschland darlegen zu können. In Kapitel 3 möchte ich dann den Beobachtungsschwerpunkt auf die Realisierungsmöglichkeiten im schulischen Kontext setzen und dabei auch die konkrete und allgemein anerkannte Konzeption von Gerhard Himmelmann präsentieren und schließlich kritisch reflektieren. Mit der Frage warum Demokratie-Lernen in der Schule nur einhergehend mit genügend Partizipationsmöglichkeiten für die Schülerinnen und Schüler funktionieren kann, befasst sich das 4.Kapitel. Da dieser sehr "praxisnahe" Bereich meiner Meinung nach von starkem Einfluss ist, werde ich an dieser Stell
Download or read book The Commodification of Childhood written by Daniel Thomas Cook and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThrough a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children’s clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood./div
Download or read book Critical Theory and Transformative Learning written by Wang, Victor X. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging in genuine dialogue and authentic communication is essential for teachers to assist students’ successes and help them further their education through refining critical thinking skills beyond the classroom. Critical Theory and Transformative Learning is a critical scholarly resource that examines and contrasts the key concepts related to critical approaches in educational settings. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics including repressive tolerance, online teaching, and adult education, this book is geared toward educators, administrators, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on transformative learning and addressing the interconnectedness of important theories and praxis.
Download or read book Culture Management written by Lukasz Wroblewski and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr Lukasz Wroblewski's book Culture Management: Strategy and Marketing Aspects clearly recognises that the pressures on the cultural sector in the 21st Century are greater than ever before. Based on robust academic research within a practical industry context, this book addresses all the key issues related to marketing strategy and planning for the cultural industries. It will be an invaluable tool for managers, policy-makers and all those working in the creative and cultural world, and will help them to develop sound strategies for the future." Dr Kim Lehman Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania "Dr Wroblewski's book explains clearly what has changed to make the use of business models necessary, even in organizations which might have resisted in the past. Globalization has resulted in a population which understands and appreciates art and culture created in other countries. While it might be agreed that this is beneficial for society, it means that cultural arbitrators within a country no longer have the authority to dictate what is accepted as culture. Managers now understand that to gain the support of the public they must explain the benefits of consuming their cultural product." Dr Bonita M. Kolb Professor Emeritus of Lycoming College in Pennsylvania "A thoughtful and penetrating analysis of culture management addressing marketing strategies and cultural institutions. An important `must read' book for those involved in this exciting sector." Prof Adrian Payne University of UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales
Download or read book Alienation and Acceleration written by Hartmut Rosa and published by Aarhus University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern life is speeding-up, incessantly. This book presents an analytic framework to identify the causes and effects of the various speed-up-processes which define modernity - and it develops A Critical Theory of late-modern temporality.
Download or read book Mental Infrastructures written by Harald Welzer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
