Realising a Dream

Joan Reinhardt-Reiss, Running Around! Barbara Lindemann, Reflections on Retirement, Eight Years I

How Children Get to Know and Identify Species

This study investigated with the help of in-depth interviews and a think-aloud-approach how 10-to12-year-old children (n = 46) in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, get to know species, how they identify plants and animals, and for how important they consider species knowledge to be. Own observations and sensual experiences coupled with positive emotions were most prominent when children encountered plants and animals for the first time. Family members helped most in getting to know species, and were more needed in case of plants. When describing plants, children focused less on flower or flower color than on other characteristic traits. In case of animals, special attention was paid on the body, i.e., its size, form and color. Mean knowledge of animals and mean number of traits mentioned per class was positively related. Children considered species knowledge important for utilitarian reasons and because they thought it part of a general education

Basisqualifikation für die Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsarbeit: die Fortbildung des Verbundprojekts "Pro Grundbildung" als Beitrag zur Professionalisierung

Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Debatte um Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen der Lehrenden in der Erwachsenenbildung zielt die im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts ProGrundbildung entwickelte Fortbildung "Basisqualifizierung Alphabetisierung / Grundbildung" auf die Professionalisierung von Erwachsenenbildner/inne/n, die im Bereich Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung tätig sind bzw. tätig werden wollen, ab. Die Autorinnen stellen das Konzept der Fortbildung vor und diskutieren die im Rahmen der Evaluation der Qualifizierung erhobenen Daten zur Personalstruktur sowie zu Fortbildungsmotiven und Qualitätsmerkmalen von Fortbildungen. Schließlich wird aufgezeigt, welchen Beitrag die Fortbildung zur Professionalisierung der Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung darstellt

Konvergierende und divergierende Tendenzen: Übergänge zwischen Berufs-, Hochschul- und Weiterbildung im pädagogisch organisierten System des lebenslangen Lernens

Der Beitrag thematisiert Systembildungstendenzen im Erziehungs- und Bildungswesen am Beispiel von Berufs-, Hochschul- und Weiterbildung. Dazu werden drei Zugänge gewählt. Den ersten bildet der Vergleich von Leitbildern und ExpertInneninterviews aus den drei Bereichen. Ein zweiter Zugang erfolgt durch die Rekonstruktion von beruflichen Orientierungen berufsbegleitend Studierender. Als dritte Perspektive werden Entgrenzungsprozesse pädagogischer Arbeit in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung analysiert

Wasting Breath in Hamlet

This is the final version. Available on open access from Palgrave via the DOI in this recordThis chapter draws on instances of disordered breathing in Hamlet in order to examine the cultural signifcance of sighs in the early modern period, as well as in the context of current work in the feld of medical humanities. Tracing the medical history of sighing in ancient and early modern treatises of the passions, the chapter argues that sighs, in the text and the performance of the tragedy, exceed their conventional interpretation as symptoms of pain and disrupt meaning on the page and on stage. In the light of New Materialist theory, the air circulating in Hamlet is shown to dismantle narratives of representation, posing new questions for the future of medical humanities

Registered replication report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003)

The attentional spatial-numerical association of response codes (Att-SNARC) effect (Fischer, Castel, Dodd, & Pratt, 2003)—the finding that participants are quicker to detect left-side targets when the targets are preceded by small numbers and quicker to detect right-side targets when they are preceded by large numbers—has been used as evidence for embodied number representations and to support strong claims about the link between number and space (e.g., a mental number line). We attempted to replicate Experiment 2 of Fischer et al. by collecting data from 1,105 participants at 17 labs. Across all 1,105 participants and four interstimulus-interval conditions, the proportion of times the effect we observed was positive (i.e., directionally consistent with the original effect) was .50. Further, the effects we observed both within and across labs were minuscule and incompatible with those observed by Fischer et al. Given this, we conclude that we failed to replicate the effect reported by Fischer et al. In addition, our analysis of several participant-level moderators (finger-counting habits, reading and writing direction, handedness, and mathematics fluency and mathematics anxiety) revealed no substantial moderating effects. Our results indicate that the Att-SNARC effect cannot be used as evidence to support strong claims about the link between number and space