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This thesis examines the spread and promotion of English on a global level, from a historical perspective in particular ‘Third World’ contexts. The globalization of English as an exclusive language of power is considered to be a trap, when accompanied by an ideology aiming to universalize monolingual and monocultural norms and standards. World-wide English diffusion is related - not to any mystical effects of some psycho-social mechanisms or transmuting alchemy - but to a global rise of military, political, economic, communicational and cultural Euro-American hegemony. The fact that the English language has become perhaps the primary medium of social control and power has not been given a prominent place in the analyses of established social scientists or political planners. On the contrary, the positively idealized dominance of English as a universal medium has become part of a collection of myths seeking to deny the global reality of multilingualism. Not allowing for the existence of any power besides itself, the perpetuation of this hegemony of English within a multilingual scenario has become a contradiction in terms. Centuries of colonialism, followed by neo-colonialism, are seen to have resulted in a world-wide consensus favouring centralization and homogenization of state and world economies, administrations, language, education and mass media systems, as prerequisites to local and global unity. The particular case of India as encountered by a colonizing Britain is used to illustrate the historical clash between differing language and educational traditions and cultures. It was on the strength of their own predominantly positive attitudes towards diversity - encoded in their promotion of complex social and religious philosophies, as well as varied economic and educational practices of pluralism and hierarchy-without-imposition, unity in diversity, etc. - that the people and their leaders finally achieved Indian independence from British colonialism. Contemporary Indian society, however, is still grappling with the legacy of a Eurocentric civilizational model - encoded in the neo-colonial system of English education - and in conflict with its own positively idealized and actively promoted traditions of pluralism. On national and international levels, the destabilization and destruction of diversity continues to threaten more than the linguistic and cultural uniqueness of numerous communities and individuals. For those majorities and minorities who refuse to give up their ‘differences’, political, economic and physical survival is at stake. A paradoxical reality, seldom acknowledged, is that while for the politically and economically already powerful language groups, the enormous resources spent on formal (language) education have become a means to maintain their material and political capital, whereas for the majority of modern societies' marginalized members, powerful linguistic barriers to full economic or political participation remain firmly in place. The justifications for perpetuating exclusionary policies and sustaining structural inequality have come from monocultural ideological assumptions in education and language policies as one of the key mechanisms for state control of labour. This thesis concludes that the trap of an ideologically exclusive status for English can be avoided by theoretically positivizing and institutionally promoting existing multilingual and multicultural peoples’ realities as an integral part of their human rights, in order to resist global Englishization.
The use of scaffolding to promote preschool children’s competencies of evidence-based reasoning
(2021)
Scientific reasoning encompasses individuals‘ evaluation of evidence with regard to a given hypothesis. In this study, we investigated whether preschool children are able to reason with empirical evidence in the science context of elasticity. N = 63 preschoolers were presented with tasks following the deductive reasoning paradigm and were asked to evaluate the relevance of given events (objects) with regard to a hypothesis. In a repeated measures experimental design with three groups, we tested whether different forms of scaffolding (adaptive prompts with/without modeling of advanced reasoning) would promote children’s reasoning compared to a control group without intervention. We found that adaptive prompts with modeling significantly improved children’s evaluation of irrelevant events in the posttest. Further, these children’s reasoning patterns scored significantly higher than those of the control group. Our results suggest that preschool children are able to reason with evidence if they are given adequate support. Specifically, the modeling of advanced reasoning functioned as a scaffold beyond the use of adaptive prompts in irrelevant event evaluations.
Themenangebote
(2015)
Schlechte Leistungen in der Schule können mit der Gesundheit, der Bildungssituation oder sozialen Rahmenbedingungen in Zusammenhang gebracht werden. Die Forschungsarbeit untersucht die Zusammenhänge aus Sicht der jungen Menschen und beschreibt deren Theorien. Aus den Theorien werden Ansätze zur Verbesserung der gesundheitlichen und sozialen Situation sowie der Bildung abgeleitet.
The paper contributes to design discourse by drawing on Educational Design Research (EDR) that has been conducted into what we call a Zone of Possibility (ZoP) over the past seven years. We define a ZoP as a place where individuals can overcome the constraints of expectations and power structures to effect desired change. Specifically, this paper presents details of how our initial research question (RQ1) has evolved to the one presented in the conclusions (RQ2); both RQs are summarised below in the section “Research Questions.” To describe this evolution, the paper is presented as 3 cases (Confer, ZoP Stokes Croft and Google Lens in HE) that have provided insights to explore the concept of the ZoP and its implications for EDR. Specifically, one of the main conclusions is the importance of bridging positioning practices as “successful communication” and an understanding of social context in hybrid contexts (ie, the ZoP).
Trabalho e consciência : mudanças na sociedade do trabalho e a reconstrução da teoria de classe
(2002)
Este artigo busca discutir as possibilidades e limitações de se utilizar para a análise das sociedades industriais modernas o conceito de classe advindo das determinações econômicas do marxismo. Com a aumento da complexidade destas sociedades e de suas formas de produzir, com a predominância de novos setores como o de serviços no processo de reprodução do capital, como dar conta e criar um conceito que integre todos os excluídos e incluídos no sistema capitalista de trabalho e que dê conta das novas possibilidades de constituição de uma consciência política comum. Tendo por referência a discussão alemã contemporânea sobre a questão, busca–se entender que as tendências da reorganização sistêmica da produção em empresas modernas, provocam, na sua forma inovadora, uma mudança no status do trabalhador na fábrica e na sua consciência tradicional.
Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich aus der Sicht des Subjekts mit Transformationen und nimmt die dabei (potentiell) stattfindenden Bildungsprozesse in den Blick. Diese werden im spezifischen Kontext des Übergangs in die Hochschule empirisch analysiert. Durch diesen Fokus wird es möglich, unterschiedliche Facetten von transformatorischer Bildung sowie Hinweise auf selbstbezogene Veränderungen in den Eigentheorien der Subjekte herauszuarbeiten. Darüber hinaus lässt sich die Funktion dieses spezifischen Übergangs als Generator solcher Bildungsprozesse rekonstruieren.
Vor diesem Hintergrund werden folgende Fragestellungen bearbeitet, die über ihren Bezug zur subjektiven Gestaltung des Übergangs miteinander verbunden sind:
Welche Dimensionen charakterisieren den Übergang in die Hochschule aus Sicht der Betroffenen?
Welche selbstbezogenen Veränderungen lassen sich in den Eigentheorien der Befragten identifizieren?
Um einen Beitrag zur Diskussion dieser Fragestellungen zu leisten, wird zunächst das Forschungsfeld der Hochschullandschaft dargestellt. Nach der Rahmung der zentralen theoretischen Konzepte wird das Forschungsdesign erläutert, auf dessen Ergebnissen der vorliegende Beitrag beruht. Dem schließen sich die zentralen empirischen Ergebnisse sowie deren Rückkopplung an den Forschungsstand an.
Bei der zusammenfassenden Analyse unterschiedlicher empirischer Qualifikations- und Forschungsprojekte mit ganz unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen und Erkenntnisinteressen (vgl. Nittel, Schütz, Tippelt 2014; Burkart, Meyer, Stemmer 2016; Meyer 2017; Nittel, Tippelt 2018) zeigt sich sehr deutlich immer wieder ein und dasselbe Phänomen: In den beruflichen Selbstbeschreibungen von pädagogisch Tätigen aus der Elementar- wie der Primarbildung, der Sekundarstufe I und II, der Sozialpädagogik, der Erwachsenenbildung und den Hochschulen nehmen die Begriffe Begleiten und Begleitung eine zentrale Stellung ein. ...