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The increase in reported levels of stress and burnout in teachers across Europe highlights the importance of teachers' social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness (SEDA).Since teaching is an extremely social and emotional process where diversity, if recognised, is embraced at every step, we believe that supporting teachers to develop SEDA competencies is the key to shaping not only the positive relationships of living and learning together in classrooms, but also, in living and learning together in society. Once SEDA competencies are supported, a positive shift can occur at the level of individual teacher, classroom, school and society level.The book is our way of experimentally demonstrating how teachers' SEDA can be supported across Europe (Volume I) and how policy can support these processes (Volume II). Volume I focuses on the innovative conceptual overlap of social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness and experimentally test it across European countries - with an emphasis on conceptualisation, implementation and evaluation processes.

This book summarizes the results of a multimethod project on school development performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It combines innovative theoretical approaches and findings as well as long-term online research activities in which student assessments delivered the bases for adaptive teacher trainings. The theoretical foundations relate to sustainable conditions of classroom and school development, an approach to personality development, and a focus on instructional coherence. Empirical findings concern the development of learning-strategy use and classroom needs over time as well as a model for effective teacher education and related course evaluations. A further research area concerns advanced perspectives from digital-learning research, such as the effects of social media in classrooms, mixed and virtual learning materials, computer-based collaborative learning, and innovative interventions in media research.The book is aimed at researchers, teacher trainers, instructional designers, and practitioners in the field of school development as well as teacher education.

Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth. Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature is a collective aesthetic, historical, literary, and cultural analysis of how biopolitical, cultural, and economic trends have impacted narratives about migration in the Hispanic world. Considering migrants as protagonists of their stories, the book approaches the migrant as a Subject of cultural patrimony and knowledge. The different articles, written by scholars from the United States, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador, examine how Hispanic art and narratives of migrancy allow us to re-evaluate the cultural understanding of borders.

The book summarizes important data on cross-sectional topics of heterogeneity, diversity, social justice, human rights, and inclusion in the educational sector in Iraq and in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. Scientists from Iraq, Germany and Austria jointly describe international perspectives and regional approaches to inclusion in the destabilized country of Iraq and autonomous region of Kurdistan. The authors demonstrate findings, conditions, and future perspectives, presenting approaches to action at the local level and indicating necessities for action. On a superregional level, the book can help educational governments and scientists who are in a similar process under similar conditions by describing approaches for researching and reforming infrastructure for developing countries and post-war countries.

Organizations are increasingly the Subject of moral debates. The positioning of enterprises of various sizes, non-governmental organizations, or public institutions is discussed and taken as a basis for consumer, client, and political decisions in a broad scope of topics. While the perspectives of customers, organizations, and further stakeholders on such developments have been highlighted under the label of "ethical consumption" or vis-à-vis the fragility of organizations, the impact and effects on actors working in or for such organizations or subcontractors have so far only been dealt with tangentially or left as a blank spot. This volume turns its attention to the actors and organizational practices in order to trace the effects of these discourses on everyday lives. Similarly, the ethnographic case studies collected in this volume explore the Extent to which everyday work life itself shapes discourses on the negotiation of morality in the present.

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. Situated at the intersection between musicology and American Studies, the essays focus on the categories of aesthetics, authenticity, and performance in order to show how popular music is made American-from Alaskan hip hop to German Schlager, from Creedence Clearwater Revival to film scores, from popular opera to U2, from the Rolling Stones to country rap, and from Steve Earle to the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.

Educational professionals as well as academic scholars agree that a clear educational vision is of utmost importance for successful school leaders and schools. What this vision contains, and how it is communicated and used is less clear. This study proposes a conceptual framework for educational visions as 'stories about good education.' The qualitative empirical part investigates to what Extent school leaders and school teams of primary schools in the Netherlands are able to formulate these stories about good education and how they are used in school improvement projects. The results show that while school leaders and teams vary greatly in the Extent to which they articulate stories about good education, only few formulate stories that include both educational aims and design principles, which are shared in the school community, directive for the school practice and in rich interaction with cultural sources.

Popular culture today manifests itself in a dense network of styles and genres, while the aesthetic preferences of the Audience are highly differentiated. Besides, popular culture also implies a diversity of aesthetic strategies, discourses and value systems that traverse the symbolic demarcations between styles and genres and are effective across different artistic fields and individual media. Aesthetic concepts such as camp, retro or trash are expressions of a transgressive mode of Production that facilitates a multitude of cross-connections between aesthetic spaces of experience. The volume brings together authors from different disciplines who approach aesthetic concepts in popular culture on a historical, theoretical and methodological level, analyze them on the basis of various aesthetic phenomena, or discuss aspects relevant to their theoretical contextualization, such as the emergence and establishment of artistic practices and aesthetic value systems.

In this volume, questions are addressed revolving around religious literacy and education. The term religious literacy is explored as the ability to discern and analyze intersections of religion with social, political, and cultural life in pluralistic societies. Questions about what types of religious literacies are possible in a non-confessional, and even secular, educational context are in focus. It delves into the intricate relationship between religious literacy, religious education in the Nordic countries, and the development of Subject knowledge and generic abilities. The Nordic countries, as modern secular welfare states with shared characteristics, provide an intriguing framework for comparison. The exploration of variations in the organization, content, and goals of religious education in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden sheds light on the process of shaping educational content within specific historical and societal contexts and the anthology broadens its scope by incorporating global perspectives from the Indian, Italian, and Indonesian contexts.The volume features contributions from 18 researchers who explore empirical, methodological, and theoretical aspects of religious literacy and education. The concept of religious literacy, encompassing both knowledge and generic skills, proves to be indispensable for navigating the diverse religious and non-religious worldviews present in pluralistic societies.Tailored for students, educators, education researchers, and policymakers, this anthology contributes to the ongoing discourse on religious literacy. It not only provides valuable insights into the Nordic educational landscape but also fosters a global dialogue on the crucial role of education in understanding diverse worldviews.

Research on inclusive education should consider the key players: teachers. Based on three qualitative case studies of Subject teachers working in integration classes at secondary schools in Vienna, this book answers the question how inclusive education affects processes of professionalisation in teachers. The biographical approach places the Subject teachers and their biography at the centre of their professionalisation, resulting in interesting descriptions that give the reader insights into their world.The author introduces inclusive education and compares its implementation in Austria and the Netherlands. She addresses teacher professionalism in general and relates it to the concepts of Bildung and Bildungsgangforschung. The documentary method is explained and illustrated with the three case studies. Their reconstruction shows how professionalisation in relation to working in integration classes is an individual process, motivated by personal experiences, and closely linked to ideas about one's role as a teacher. Concluding, the author relates the results to international findings and gives suggestions for implementing inclusive education.

14 different countries, various research methods, 1 topic: Differentiated Instruction.With increasingly diverse student populations in schools, the establishment of inclusive classrooms has become a top international priority. Teachers around the world are urged to differentiate their instruction in order to support all students' learning needs. Although there is research on the topic, there are still important gaps to explore, especially the underrepresented international research output. This book tackles such limitations and provides a first ever publication concerning global insights into differentiated instruction. A total of 14 countries from 5 continents provide empirical evidence, theoretical and practical approaches to the topic. The book wraps up with a contribution from Prof. Dr. John Hattie, University of Melbourne, who shares eight theses to help the continuing debate and research on differentiated instruction.

Global migration movements are also reflected in classrooms. However, the professional re-entry of migrant teachers with and without a refugee background has been neglected for a long time. This publication, which was developed in the European project "International Teachers for Tomorrow's School" (ITTS), is dedicated to this question. In seven country contributions, the opportunities and challenges of returning to work in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Poland, Slovenia and Türkiye are examined - for some of the countries, new ground was broken. It is shown which conditions favour, challenge or prevent a new professional start. In addition, the results of the cross-national ITTS study are presented, in which high satisfaction values are reflected among those teachers who succeeded in re-entering the profession despite many hurdles. Finally, the findings of the project are condensed into a Series of hints and recommendations.

Every day educators are presented with enlightening insights, questions, and encounters which reveal how students engage in learning, how new ideas can impact positively on student outcomes and how - when challenges are uncovered - there can be a sense of puzzlement where rethinking of pedagogical approaches is critical for student success. In this volume of Voices from the Classroom, "Contemporary Challenges in Education - Paradoxes and Illuminations", an international team of authors explores paradoxes, shares illuminations and invites you to reflect on educational practices to enhance pedagogy, scaffold learning and keep pace with educational advancements.This collection written by students, teachers, researchers and higher education instructors discusses education across all phases of learning. It explores issues such as instructional scaffolding in kindergarten, understanding transition through children's voices, youth participation in curriculum development of sex education, delivering crisis assistance to university students and staff in times of conflict in Ukraine, using augmented reality for transformative learning, co-creating university practices with staff and students, and how inclusive practices can help meet the needs of international postgraduate students. This comprehensive and diverse collection will have wide appeal for teachers, headmasters, stakeholders in the area of education and all those working in different educational contexts.

Teaching is complex, dynamic, and constantly changing. So-called checklists for lesson observation are therefore not always helpful for instrumental and vocal teachers. Volume 5 of the Grazer studies for instrumental and vocal pedagogy now conveys four areas of competencies in a playful and artistically designed card Set, which is intended to stimulate a scientifically based exchange about the quality of instrumental teaching and learning. In the context of music (high) schools, the cards offer concrete entry points and imaginative ways to reflect on the complex, overlapping competencies associated with teaching and learning music and observing and developing instrumental and vocal teaching. In addition, the cards provide a playful basis for self-directed and self-regulatory feedback in collegial exchanges. Both students of instrumental and vocal pedagogy and experienced teachers can continually cultivate their individual teaching profile. Practical worksheets in the accompanying booklet support reflection on new perspectives. Reflect! also proves valuable in observing videotaped teaching sequences.

How do diversity and memory mutually shape one another? This volume of the IRTG Diversity Series shows that a focus on memory introduces an important and contested temporal dimension to the politics, practices, and narratives of diversity. Exploring the various entanglements of historical projections and representations of and from the past with contemporary discourses on difference and inclusion, the articles in this collection problematize memory in relationship to three (often overlapping) modes of storytelling: literature, ethno-biography, and historiography. From the construction of diasporic identities to family migration histories to the conflicted politics of remembering, memories shape diversity, be they in the form of shared memories, divided memories, or conflicting memories.

Inclusive Education: Definition and Conceptual Framework is a recourse for the readers who would like to learn more about the background of inclusion and diversity in higher education in Flanders, Germany, Greece, Poland, Turkiye and the the UK. Rather than the differences, the authors wanted to discuss the common ground of how inclusive education will make higher education more functional for both students and teachers.This book is an intellectual output of the European Project JOINME2 "Promoting Inclusive Education in Tertiary Level" aiming at equipping Higher Education (HE) instructors with the necessary competencies in equality and diversity to promote a learning environment which is more inclusive and therefore more effective because only then does a conversation about real education become possible.

This volume presents a variety of concepts, practices, and experiences in the field of content learning through the additional Language(s) of learners in a migration society. It contains reflections on the complex interplay between the unifying characteristics of monolingual and multilingual programmes and their often diverging, local, and contextual interpretations and implementations. In addition, it describes how migration pedagogy has become a catalyst for discussing the ideological and power aspects of Language learning and how a hegemony-critical attitude needs to become an integral part of classroom Language learning and communicating. In this context, the deliberate development of Teachers' Awareness of Language Knowledge (TALK) through a variety of supportive Measures is considered to be of central pedagogical importance. Principles and practical applications of TALK for the classroom are discussed and evaluated.

This book brings together two topics which have both been of increasing interest in different countries. The first refers to the quality of Religious Education as a school Subject (RE) in general, the second is about the education of teachers of RE and its possible contribution to better quality RE. There have been many public, and often controversial, debates concerning both of these topics. The chapters contained in this volume, however, are not meant to continue such debates (even if it is inevitable that they will contribute to these debates as well), but to make use of research, especially research on teacher education in the field of RE, in order to provide insights based not just on political or personal opinions, but on rigorous academic scholarship.

It is necessary for every discipline to take Stock of its own current state every 20-30 years. Such review helps determine the discipline's path and tasks for the coming decades, and it also facilitates reflection upon the changes and challenges of the scientific and non-scientific world around it. For this purpose, the Ethnography Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organized a Series of Conferences between 2018 and 2020 on the current situation and future of ethnography, the proceedings of which are included in this volume. The volume addresses a wide range of readers - inside and outside the discipline - by providing the institutions and researchers of this discipline with reference points for further investigations, and by providing members of the public with authentic information about current and future research carried out with the purpose of exploring and preserving cultural heritage.

Wie aus den Beiträgen in diesem Band hervorgeht, entstanden im Rahmen einer Online-Tagung des Arbeitskreises Hochschulen in der Gesellschaft für Evaluation (DeGEval), gibt es viele Aspekte der heutigen Hochschulbildung und -praxis, die in Frage gestellt und neu bewertet oder modifiziert werden müssen. Erstens hat die Corona-Krise uns alle gezwungen, intensiv über die didaktischen Vorgehensweisen und die Lernziele nachzudenken. Die "erzwungene" Digitalisierung in der Zeit der Corona-Pandemie hat hier sicher viele wünschenswerte, aber auch problematische Entwicklungen angestoßen. Wir müssen neu darüber nachdenken, warum wir uns eigentlich in Person sehen müssen, wann, wo und wie häufig. Persönliche Begegnungen bleiben zweifellos wichtig, aber auch Umweltbelangen sind zu berücksichtigen. Nachhaltigkeit ist ein Thema, das nicht nur in der Forschung, sondern auch in anderen Bereichen wie Lehre, Verwaltung und Campusmanagement zunehmend auf die Tagesordnung der Hochschulen rückt. Der erste Teil des Bandes enthält Themen, die für die Hochschulbildung von allgemeiner Bedeutung sind. Im zweiten Teil stellen wir Themen vor, die sich mit der Analyse und Entwicklung der Hochschulbildung befassen, so dass Evaluierungsprozesse im Vordergrund dieses Teils stehen.

Institutionen - von der Schule über Behörden und Organisationen bis hin zur Gesundheitsversorgung - stellen gesellschaftliche Apparate dar, die ein Potenzial haben, mehrsprachige Praxen zu implementieren oder aber monolinguale Praxen zu verstetigen. Seit den späten 1970er-Jahren untersucht die funktional-pragmatische Sprach- und Kommunikationsanalyse, kurz Funktionale Pragmatik (FP), das sprachliche Handeln in mehrsprachigen Gesellschaften und ihren Institutionen. Von Konrad Ehlich und Jochen Rehbein als integrale Handlungstheorie von Sprache entwickelt, haben sich funktional-pragmatische Fragestellungen und Analysen vielfältig und über Sprachgrenzen hinweg entfaltet.Die Beiträge diese Sammelbands führen von der grundlegenden theoretischen AuseinanderSetzung mit Institution und Sprachgebrauch zu diversen Fallstudien und Untersuchungen, die sich auf der Grundlage funktional-pragmatischer Erkenntnisse mit Sprache und Mehrsprachigkeit in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Zusammenhängen befassen und die Bedeutung der FP im Kontext anderer theoretischer Konzepte ausloten.

Based on findings of an in-depth social phenomenological study, this book describes the experiences of music teachers, whose careers are rich, complex, and multi-faceted. Stories of their professional enactments contribute rich considerations in music teacher identity discourse and to the construction of their professional selves. Analysis revealed an overall sense of professional self and various degrees of three role-taking selves: performing, teaching, and musical. Findings suggest that an active, purposeful construction of consociate relationships can support a balanced, reconciled conception of self, which promotes flexibility within and among structures of the lifeworld and profession. Individuals' social worlds are highlighted in terms of ways they shape social and professional worlds. With a wide view of who music teachers are and what they do, this book reveals insights to the supports needed to enact a long, satisfying career.

Education hubs are a recent phenomenon in higher education systems of predominantly Asian countries to innovate local systems through the expertise of foreign actors, particularly from English-speaking countries. To understand some of the phenomenon's implications on international higher education, this empirical study compares attempts to create education hubs in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Two main research questions guide the comparative study: First, it explores the analytical potential of current approaches to study the phenomenon, and second, it investigates how education hubs change policy and governance in international higher education. To answer these questions, interviews were conducted in both countries and analyzed alongside policy documents. Thus, the study sheds light on how the education hubs lead to the involvement of Global Education Industry actors in local systems and how it creates new dynamics for policy making and research.

In March 2019, students and researchers from Germany, the USA, China, Kenya and South Africa came together at the University of Tuebingen to discuss Educational Governance from an international perspective. The group was mainly comprised of Ph.D.- and Master-students from various disciplines - Education, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science - and debated questions such as: What are the distinctive and different rationales underlying the discourse of Educational Governance and its political, economic, academic and pedagogic objectives? How can we make these rationales visible and which theories and analytic tools can help us to decipher the meanings attached to them? Are there different local and national trajectories in education discourse and practice with regard to Educational Governance and which role do international organizations and transnational transfer play? This edited volume displays these discussions and aims at initiating a broader communication about Educational Governance between previously separated spaces.

The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars.Educators, designers, artists, critics, curators, and custodians based both in Africa and in Europe are configuring spaces for public, private, institutional as well as digital conversation - whether through pottery or portraiture, furniture or film, shoes or selfies, buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both 'in' and 'of'; identifying and confrontational; post- and decolonial; preserved and practised; old and new; borrowed and authentic; composite and complete; rooted and soaring. Disciplines being engaged include visual culture studies, media studies, performance studies, orature, literature, art and design - as well as their histories.The editors Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.