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The Medium in the Sociology of Niklas Luhmann: From Children to Human Beings
Abstract In this paper, Christian Morgner provides a critical reading of Niklas Luhmann's thinking as ignoring human beings or even as antihumanist. Here, he presents an alternative view that centers on Luhmann's idea of the child or human being as a medium.
Christian Morgner
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Students' expectations of Learning Analytics across Europe
Abstract Background Learning Analytics (LA) is an emerging field concerned with measuring, collecting, and analysing data about learners and their contexts to gain insights into learning processes. As the technology of Learning Analytics is evolving, many systems are being implemented.
Sebastian Wollny +9 more
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What Is Pedagogy? Discovering the Hidden Pedagogical Dimension
Abstract What is pedagogy, exactly? Merriam‐Webster defines it simply as “the art, science, or profession of teaching.” In contemporary academic discourse, however, pedagogy is generally left undefined — with its apparent implicit meanings ranging anywhere from a specific “model for teaching” (e.g., behaviorist or progressivist instruction) to a ...
Norm Friesen, Hanno Su
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On the Power of the Concept of Responsibility
Abstract The concept of responsibility is both omnipresent and highly ambivalent in the field of education. On the one hand, the term is considered to be one of the key concepts of pedagogical ethics, intended to enable a reflection on pedagogical authority.
Nele Kuhlmann
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The German Logic of Emancipation and Biesta's Criticism of Emancipatory Pedagogy
ABSTRACT Gert Biesta has criticized Anglo‐American and German models of emancipatory education. According to Biesta, emancipation is understood in these models as liberation that results from a process in which a teacher transmits objective knowledge to his or her students and cultivates student capabilities.
Antti Moilanen, Rauno Huttunen
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Exploring a Vygotskian Theory of Education and Its Evolutionary Foundations
Abstract Despite his popularity in educational discourses, Lev S. Vygotsky tends to be read mainly as an educational psychologist or learning theorist. His potential contribution to a theory of education remains largely undiscussed. The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is often misunderstood as a sort of “educational tool,” which severely reduces the
Aline Nardo
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How May Education Be Organized to Safeguard Its Autonomy?
Abstract This article searches for an autonomous discipline of education, one that is a self‐governing discipline and exercises the right to organize its own activities and to make independent decisions. In undertaking this quest, it asks: how may education be organized to safeguard its autonomy so as to be able to generate strong and unique ...
Herner Saeverot
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We present a school‐based intervention geared to foster the social integration of recently immigrated (RI) primary school children by creating repeated positive contact situations with classmates brought up in the receiving society. Coaches encouraged groups of tandems, consisting of one RI and one child brought up in Germany each, to engage in ...
Bettina Hannover +3 more
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Raum für Medien – Medien im Raum
Ausgehend von einer grundsätzlichen Diskussion des Zusammenspiels von Schulraum, Medien und Pädagogik wird im Beitrag die Bedeutung speziell von digitalen Unterrichtsmedien für die räumliche Organisation und Gestaltung des „Gesamt-Ensembles“ Unterricht ...
Christian Timo Zenke
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Problems and Perspectives of a Theory of Transformational Processes of Bildung
Abstract In this essay, Hans‐Christoph Koller presents a concept of transformational processes of Bildung in an attempt to redefine the German notion of Bildung referring to actual social conditions of educational processes. According to this conception, Bildung is a transformation of world‐ and self‐relations that can come about when subjects are ...
Hans‐Christoph Koller
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