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Brandenburg startete im Schuljahr 2012/2013 das Pilotprojekt „Inklusive Grundschule“ (PING). 35 dieser Pilot-Grundschulen wurden wissenschaftlich begleitet (vgl. Spörer, Schründer-Lenzen, Vock & Maaz, 2015). In diesem Beitrag berichten wir Befunde zum sozialen Selbstkonzept, wie die Kinder das Klassenklima erleben und wie sie sich von ihrer Lehrkraft angenommen fühlen. Untersucht wurden 1.435 Kinder in 61 inklusiven Klassen der Jahrgangsstufen 2 und 3. Es finden sich keine durchgängigen Nachteile bei Selbstkonzept und erlebtem Klassenklima für Kinder mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf (SPF), jedoch fühlen sich diese weniger von ihren Lehrkräften angenommen.
In 1988 the youth-led movement "Schools without racism, schools with courage" was established in Belgium and quickly spread throughout Europe. German schools adopted this movement in 1995. Decades later, racism is not yet a strong developmental science research topic for studies of youth in Germany and Europe. In this commentary we argue that it should be. With increasing hate crimes and harassment, there is also a need to understand how families are socializing young people to be prepared for, cope with, resist, and disrupt racism. This type of ethnic-racial socialization affects important developmental processes-adolescent ethnic-racial identity development and intergroup and institutional understanding and relations-and requires a more prominent place of study in a migration-diverse Germany. Studying these issues in this particular sociohistorical context will also contribute to a more context-specific understanding of youth experiences of racism.
Die zu erwartenden Wirkungsaspekte zur Sozialentwicklung an Schulischer Kooperation beteiligter Schülerinnen und Schüler werden auf den Argumentationsebenen: Wissenschaftliche Auffassungen, schulpolitische Intentionen und Begründungen aus Sicht der Lehrerinnen und Lehrer aufgezeigt. Resümierend können vier entwicklungsförderliche Wirkaspekte herausgearbeitet werden.
Who is "German" and who is a "migrant?" Constructing Otherness in education and psychology research
(2019)
Despite growing European and global interconnectedness, questions of national identity have only gained in importance in recent years. Yet the role researchers play in perpetuating norms of national belonging has gone largely unexamined. Who is included in unmarked national group labels such as German, Dutch, or Danish, who is understood as Other, and how terminology relates to exclusionary notions of national identity warrants greater investigation. Thus, using an exploratory review of recent research in the German context, the current study aimed to (a) identify relevant terminology in empirical education and psychology studies; (b) employ constructionist analysis to examine its situated meaning; (c) discuss societal and methodological implications; and (d) propose guidelines for more accurate and inclusive research. Based on a constructionist thematic analysis, a reiteration of a white ingroup and perceived immigrant Other was found. This dichotomy reinforces an exclusionary notion of who is German while omitting relevant information, such as participant generation or citizenship, from analyses. In doing so, researchers are perpetuating essentialized notions of national belonging while reporting incomplete and potentially inaccurate findings. Though selecting demographic information can be complex, recognizing the impact of labels and acknowledging heterogeneity are essential elements of inclusive and representative research.
Der Beitrag untersucht, ob und zu welchen Anteilen frühe sprachliche Kompetenzen numerische Kompetenzen vorhersagen. An 72 dreijährigen Kindern wurden numerische, verbal produktive und rezeptive sowie grammatische Leistungen zwei Mal im Abstand von drei Monaten erhoben. Mithilfe von Strukturgleichungsmodellen kann gezeigt werden, dass sprachliche und numerische Leistungen in diesem Alter noch wenig distinkt sind. Für die numerischen Kompetenzen findet sich bereits in diesem Alter eine hohe interindividuelle Entwicklungsstabilität. Ein bedeutsamer Einfluss sprachlicher Kompetenz auf den Zuwachs mathematischer Kompetenz im vierten Lebensjahr konnte nicht nachgewiesen werden. Wir diskutieren die Ergebnisse vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Thesen zum Zusammenhang von Sprache und Numerik in der Entwicklung.
Vorschulische Entwicklung des aktiven Selbst als Voraussetzung für erfolgsorientiertes Lernen
(2000)
Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die diagnostischen Kompetenzen Lehramtsstudierender vor allem in Bezug auf internalisierende Verhaltensbesonderheiten. Da diese häufig weniger Einfluss auf den Verlauf des Schulalltags von Lehrpersonen haben als externalisierendes Erleben und Verhalten von Kindern, werden internalisierende Verhaltensbesonderheiten von Kindern häufig seltener wahrgenommen und seltener als pädagogisch relevant eingestuft. Daher erfahren diese Kinder oft weniger förderdiagnostische Unterstützung. Mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung diesbezüglicher diagnostischer Kompetenzen der Studierenden wird das Psychodiagnostische Praktikum (PDP) mit praktischen Abschnitten und begleitenden Seminarsitzungen zeitgleich zum Praxissemester durchgeführt. Um Veränderungen in der Selbstwahrnehmung der Studierenden in Bezug auf ihre diagnostischen Kompetenzen im Rahmen des PDP abzubilden und damit das Gesamtkonzept zu evaluieren, wird ein selbstentwickelter Fragebogen verwendet. Der Beitrag stellt die konzeptuellen Gedanken des Fragebogens sowie die Ergebnisse einer ersten Pilotstudie vor.
Auf der Grundlage einer Stichprobenuntersuchung wird der Zusammenhang zwischen personalen und sozialen Variablen mit Wirkung auf das Verhalten von Schülern im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung aufgezeigt. Gleichzeitig wird die erschwerte soziale Integration von Schülern mit auffälligem Verhalten deutlich. Pädagogische Konsequenzen zielen vor allem auf diagnostische und kompetenzerweiternde Möglichkeiten im Umgfang mit dieser Zielgruppe.
In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a ‘whole-system approach’. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the ‘use of evidence’. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term ‘inclusive education’. Thus, the term ‘inclusive education’ does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term ‘equity’.
In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a ‘whole-system approach’. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the ‘use of evidence’. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term ‘inclusive education’. Thus, the term ‘inclusive education’ does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term ‘equity’.
Ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is an important aspect of youth development and has been well-studied for the last several decades. One issue less discussed is how the construct of ERI translates across different countries and cultures. The purpose of our paper is to describe the sociohistorical context of Germany and implications for the study of ethnic-racial identity in Europe. We discuss the German adaption of the Identity Project, an 8-week school-based ethnic-racial identity exploration intervention developed in the United States. We use this as a concrete example of how we thought through the focal construct of ERI to figure out how and whether it is a salient social identity category for youth in Germany where, in response to the history of racially motivated genocide, discussions of "race" are taboo. Digging into the ways ERI may not be directly transferable to different contexts can help us understand its nature as a socially constructed identity with real-life implications. Our hope with this paper is to further discussion, question our conceptualizations, and acknowledge how a detailed understanding of sociohistorical contexts is needed for the study of ERI.
Untersucht werden die Wirkungen unterschiedlicher Trainingsprogramme für Kinder mit Lernstörungen. - Im Motivationstraining werden das Zielsetzungsverhalten und die Attribution trainiert. - Das metakognitive Strategietraining trainiert die Orientierung, Planung, Temporegulation und Selbstkontrolle bei Lernaufgaben. Das Motivations- und das Strategietraining arbeiten mit unterrichtsstoff-unabhängigen Inhalten. Erst später erfolgt eine Übertragung auf den Schulunterricht. - Ein Rechtschreiblerntraining fördert die Motivation und metakognitive Strategien in Rechtschreibung, also am möglicherweise aversiv besetzten Inhalt, aber auch mit der Chance, dass die Kinder ihre negativen Lernerfahrungen bald als Irrtum einordnen können. Diese drei Trainingsprogramme werden in Kleingruppen realisiert. - Ein "Unterrichtsintegriertes Training" trainiert die Motivation und metakognitive Strategien im Klassenunterricht. Die Programme wurden bei Kindern im Alter von 9 bis 12 Jahre mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf im Lernen eingesetzt. Der IQ der Schüler lag zwischen 80 und 100. Die Schüler waren in ihrem Lernen entmutigt und realisierten ineffektive Lernstrategien. Lese-Rechtschreibschwäche oder Rechenschwäche wurden ausgeschlossen. Als Effektvariable wurden kognitive, metakognitive und motivationale Maße erhoben, aber auch das Verhalten bei Schwierigkeitserleben. Kontrolliert wurden sowohl die unmittelbaren Trainingswirkungen als auch die Langzeitwirkungen nach 3 bis 6 Monaten. Darüber hinaus wurden differenzielle Effekte erfasst. Alle Trainingsprogramme erreichten gute Effektstärken in kognitiven und metakognitiven Variablen. Eine gute Ermutigungswirkung erzielten allerdings nur das Motivations- und das Strategietraining. Diese Ermutigungswirkung wiederum erwies sich als entscheidend für die Nachhaltigkeit und Anwendung gelernter Strategien bei Schwierigkeitserleben. Verallgemeinert erfordert ein Trainingserfolg folgende Bedingungen: 1. Verbindung des Trainings von Motivation und Lernstrategien. 2. Realisierung eines Intensivtrainings, in dem die Ressourcen des Kindes aktiviert werden. 3. Festigung der gelernten Strategien über einen längeren Zeitraum und Anwendung im Schulunterricht.
The current study investigates two types of cultural diversity approaches at school, namely (1) fostering equality and (2) promoting cultural pluralism. Adopting a mixed-methods design, this study assesses teachers' (n = 207) and students' (n = 1,644) self-reported perceptions of descriptive norms and evaluates school practices and artefacts in the physical and virtual environment of 22 secondary schools in south-west Germany. Results showed that in all schools under investigation teachers and students perceived descriptive norms fostering mostly equality. A wide variety of practices and artefacts was found, revealing a third distinct cultural approach leaning towards endorsing the majority culture. Different practices and artefacts were linked to an emphasis on equality, cultural pluralism, and endorsing the majority culture. Implications for educational policy, as well as applied diversity research, are discussed.
The purpose of this conceptual article is to advance theory and research on one critical aspect of the context of ethnic–racial identity (ERI) development: ethnic–racial settings, or the objective and subjective nature of group representation within an individual's context. We present a new conceptual framework that consists of four dimensions: (1) perspective (that settings can be understood in both objective and subjective terms); (2) differentiation (how groups are defined in a setting); (3) heterogeneity (the range of groups in a setting); and (4) proximity (the distance between the individual and the setting). Clarifying this complexity is crucial for advancing a more coherent understanding of how ethnic–racial settings are related to ERI development.
The aim of our study was twofold: to examine (a) whether the link between racial discrimination and adjustment showed age-related changes across early to late adolescence for Chinese-heritage youth and (b) whether the age-related associations of the discrimination-adjustment link differed by gender, nativity, and geographical region. We pooled two independently collected longitudinal data sets in the United States and Canada (N = 498, ages 12-19 at Wave 1) and used time-varying effect modeling to show that discrimination is consistently associated with poorer adjustment across all ages. These associations were stronger at certain ages, but for males and females, first- and second-generation adolescents, and US and Canadian adolescents they differed. There were stronger relations between discrimination and adjustment in early adolescence for males compared to females, in middle adolescence for first-generation compared to second-generation adolescents, and in early adolescence for US adolescents compared to Canadian adolescents. In general, negative implications for adjustment associated with discrimination diminished across the span of adolescence for females, second-generation, and US and Canadian adolescents, but not for males or first-generation adolescents. The results show that the discrimination-adjustment link must be considered with regard to age, gender, nativity, and region, and that attention to discrimination in early adolescence may be especially important.
Development of self-concept and task interest has been shown to be affected by social comparison processes in a variety of cross-sectional studies. A potential explanation for these effects is an effect of social comparative performance feedback on an individual’s self-evaluation of performance, which in turn influences development of self-concept and task interest. There are, however, only few studies addressing this topic with experimental designs. This study was aimed at closing this research gap by experimentally manipulating social comparative performance. Feedback given was based on 2 × 2 experimental conditions: social position (high vs. low) and average performance of the reference group (high vs. low). Results show a strong effect of social position on self-evaluation of performance and smaller effects on self-concept and task interest.
Development of self-concept and task interest has been shown to be affected by social comparison processes in a variety of cross-sectional studies. A potential explanation for these effects is an effect of social comparative performance feedback on an individual’s self-evaluation of performance, which in turn influences development of self-concept and task interest. There are, however, only few studies addressing this topic with experimental designs. This study was aimed at closing this research gap by experimentally manipulating social comparative performance. Feedback given was based on 2 × 2 experimental conditions: social position (high vs. low) and average performance of the reference group (high vs. low). Results show a strong effect of social position on self-evaluation of performance and smaller effects on self-concept and task interest.
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the Identity Project, reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The sample included 195 seventh graders (M-age = 12.35 years, SD =.79, 39% female, 83% of migration background). Findings showed moderate support for more heritage identity exploration and greater perceptions of unequal treatment and critical consciousness climate in the intervention group. There were also important differences across conditions regarding how identity and climate related to adolescent outcomes. We conclude that the Identity Project can be adapted and applied in other cultural contexts such as Germany. It provides a necessary space for adolescents to engage in discussions about diversity, cultural heritage, social inequities, and their relevance to one's identities.
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the Identity Project, reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The sample included 195 seventh graders (M-age = 12.35 years, SD =.79, 39% female, 83% of migration background). Findings showed moderate support for more heritage identity exploration and greater perceptions of unequal treatment and critical consciousness climate in the intervention group. There were also important differences across conditions regarding how identity and climate related to adolescent outcomes. We conclude that the Identity Project can be adapted and applied in other cultural contexts such as Germany. It provides a necessary space for adolescents to engage in discussions about diversity, cultural heritage, social inequities, and their relevance to one's identities.
Die foerderdiagnostische Lernbeobachtung ist ein Verfahren, welches im Land Brandenburg im Rahmen des Feststellungsverfahrens eingefuehrt wurde. Mit und in diesem Verfahren sollen Diagnostik und Foerderung bei der Feststellung sonderpaedagogischen Foerderbedarfs sinnvoll verbunden werden, um einerseits einer fruehzeitigen Stigmatisierung vorzubeugen und andererseits die Moeglichkeiten der besonderen Foerderung in der Grundschule zu erweitern. Auf diesem Wege soll zum einen ein klareres Bild ueber den Umfang der Beeintraechtigung eines Kindes gewonnen werden und andererseits im Rahmen des Unterrichts an der Grundschule nach Moeglichkeiten der individuellen Foerderung gesucht werden. Die Sonderpaedagogin und die Grundschullehrkraft arbeiten in diesem Rahmen eng zusammen.
It is unclear to what extent teachers can accurately assess the social inclusion of their students with and without SEN. The study aims to shed light on these desiderata. Students (N = 1.644) with SEN (learning, behavior, and language problems) and without SEN and their teachers (N = 79) participated in the study. Sociometric peer nominations, students' self-perceived social inclusion, and teachers' assessments regarding students' social inclusion and self-perceived social inclusion were administered. The results suggest that teachers are moderately accurate in identifying social acceptance and social rejection, while accuracy is low when assessing students' self-perceived social inclusion. That said, rating accuracy varied strongly between teachers, ranging from no agreement to a perfect concordance. Teachers seem to be more accurate in estimating the social acceptance of students with learning problems. The results emphasize the importance of differentiating between various social inclusion criteria (i.e., students' self-report vs. peer nominations) and accounting for inter-individual differences in teachers' rating accuracy.
Language skills and mathematical competencies are argued to influence each other during development. While a relation between the development of vocabulary size and mathematical skills is already documented in the literature, this study further examines how children's ability to map a novel word to an unknown object as well as their ability to retain this word from memory may be related to their knowledge of number words. Twenty-five children were tested longitudinally (at 30 and at 36 months of age) using an eye-tracking-based fast mapping task, the Give-a Number task, and standardized measures of vocabulary. The results reveal that children's ability to create and retain a mental representation of a novel word was related to number knowledge at 30 months, but not at 36 months while vocabulary size correlated with number knowledge only at 36 months. These results show that even specific mapping processes are initially related to the acquisition of number words and they speak for a parallelism between the development of lexical and number-concept knowledge despite their semantic and syntactic differences.
Störungsbild ADHS
(2016)
The color-evasive ideology (commonly termed "colorblindness") proposes that ethnic and cultural group memberships should be deemphasized. Yet there is a conceptual confusion around the meaning and measurement of color-evasiveness, and this construct is not used consistently in the international as well as German literature. Our purpose is to investigate whether two underlying forms of the color-evasive ideology (i.e., stressing similarities and ignoring differences) are two distinct, albeit related, constructs. We tested this hypothesis by applying these two forms of the color-evasive ideology to teachers' cultural diversity beliefs. In two cross-sectional field studies conducted with pre-service teachers (Study 1, n = 210), and in-service teachers (Study 2, n = 99), questionnaire items on the stressing similarities ideology and items on the ignoring differences ideology loaded on two separate factors, providing a better fit to the data than the one-factor model. Mean scores on these two types of color-evasive ideology also differed substantially, indicating that participants across the two studies mainly endorsed the stressing similarities perspective. The stressing similarities and ignoring differences ideologies related differently to other intergroup ideologies (i.e., multiculturalism and polyculturalism), and showed different patterns to psychosocial functioning in culturally diverse classrooms (i.e., cultural diversity-related stress).
Zwei grundlegende Herausforderungen der sozialen Inklusionsforschung werden im vorliegenden Beitrag erläutert: Die Operationalisierung sozialer Inklusion sowie sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarfe. Anhand der dargelegten Forschung wird untersucht, ob die beiden methodischen Aspekte zu fehlerhaften Schlüssen und widersprüchlichen Forschungsergebnissen über die soziale Inklusion von Kindern mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf führen. Dementsprechend wird die Vermeidung fehlerhafter Schlüsse und widersprüchlicher Forschungsergebnisse mittels einer Optimierung der Operationalisierung sozialer Inklusion sowie sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarfe thematisiert. Die vorliegende Forschung fokussiert sich hierbei vorrangig auf die soziometrischen Methoden zur Erfassung sozialer Inklusion sowie auf schulisches Problemverhalten im Sinne des Förderbedarfs emotional-soziale Entwicklung (insbesondere internalisierende aber auch externalisierende Verhaltensprobleme).
Sonderpädagogik in Japan
(1997)
Cognitive representations and beliefs are what comprise an individual’s self-concept. A positive self-concept is related to and influences academic achievement, and the relationship between a domain-specific self-concept and achievement in the same domain is positive and strong. However, insufficient attention has been paid to these issues among multilingual children. More importantly, since instruction strongly contributes to the development of metacognition and executive functions (EFs), and since the bilingual advantage hypothesis holds that the constant management of multiple languages entails benefits for EF, we bring together these important issues in the present study. We examine the relationship between domain-specific self-concepts and standardized assessment of reading and spelling competences against the background of potential differences in self-concept between monolingual and multilingual German children. While between-group comparisons revealed no significant differences for self-concept nor reading competency, monolinguals outperformed multilinguals in spelling. Correlations between domain-specific self-concepts and academic achievement in reading comprehension, reading fluency, and spelling were positive and significant for both groups. Regardless of language background, children’s evaluations of their academic achievement (reading and spelling) were realistic. We argue, on a theoretical basis, that metacognition and EFs could facilitate a bilingual advantage and improve educational outcomes.
Der Beitrag informiert über Grundsätze zum Modell der Schulischen Kooperation. Mit der Begriffskennzeichnung werden die konzeptionell-strukturelle und die didaktische Ebene des schulmodells ausgewiesen und diskutiert. Idealtypische Prinzipien der Gestaltung, erwartete Wirkungen, einen Exkurs zur Modellakzeptanz und sich entwicklter Standortmodelle in Brandenburg folgen in weiteren Ausführungen.
Resilienz
(1996)
Rehabilitationspädagogik
(2021)
Die Rehabilitationspädagogik ist eine jüngere eigenständige Hybridwissenschaft im Feld der Humanwissenschaften. Sie setzt theoriebildend im Sinne des Neunten Buchs Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB IX) an den längerfristigen Folgen einer Krankheit oder eines biologischen Mangels an. Dabei orientiert sie sich konzeptionell zum Beispiel an der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention (UN-BRK) und an der International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Des Weiteren an den Konzepten der Humanontogenetik von K.-F. Wessel, insbesondere: dem ganzen Menschen, der Hierarchie der Kompetenzen, den sensiblen Phasen und der Souveränität.
Die Rehabilitationspädagogik ist Bestandteil der komplexen gesundheitlichen Rehabilitation und eine Tochterdisziplin der allgemeinen Pädagogik. Bei ihrem rehabilitationspädagogischen Prozess gilt das Richtziel, die umfassende Teilhabe des Menschen an individuellen Lebensbereichen durch rehabilitationspädagogische Mittel, Methoden und Organisationsformen zu unterstützen.
Die Dissertation setzt sich mittels Methoden der Hermeneutik mit der DDR-Rehabilitationspädagogik von K.- P. Becker und Autorenkollektiv kritisch-konstruktiv auseinander. Sie legt eine aktuelle fortführende Theorie der Rehabilitationspädagogik unter der Berücksichtigung der UN-BRK, der ICF und des SGB IX vor und liefert eine neue Sichtweise auf die Rehabilitationspädagogik aus historischer und aktueller Perspektive.
Culturally diverse schools may constitute natural arenas for training crucial intercultural skills. We hypothesized that a classroom cultural diversity climate fostering contact and cooperation and multiculturalism, but not a climate fostering color-evasion, would be positively related to adolescents’ intercultural competence. Adolescents in North Rhine-Westphalia (N = 631, Mage = 13.69 years, 49% of immigrant background) and Berlin (N = 1,335, Mage = 14.69 years, 52% of immigrant background) in Germany reported their perceptions of the classroom cultural diversity climate and completed quantitative and qualitative measures assessing their intercultural competence. Multilevel structural equation models indicate that contact and cooperation, multiculturalism, and, surprisingly, also color-evasion (as in emphasizing a common humanity), were positively related to the intercultural competence of immigrant and non-immigrant background students. We conclude that all three aspects of the classroom climate are uniquely related to aspects of adolescents’ intercultural competence and that none of them may be sufficient on their own.
Das Rahmenkonzept der Universitätsschule Potsdam beschreibt die Wertegrundlage und das pädagogisch-didaktische sowie das wissenschaftliche Fundament einer zu gründenden Universitätsschule Potsdam. Wie andere Universitätsschulen soll sich auch diese Schule durch eine enge und institutionalisierte Beziehung zwischen Schule und Universität auszeichnen, die den ständigen Wissenstransfer zwischen Schulpraxis, Wissenschaft, Lehrkräftebildung und Schulverwaltung unterstützt. Das Rahmenkonzept legt die Grundlagen für eine inklusive Schule, deren Schüler:innen einen Querschnitt der Gesellschaft abbilden, und die in ungleichheitssensiblen Bildungsangeboten alle Bildungsabschlüsse des Landes Brandenburg anbietet. Die Universitätsschule soll den starken Segregationsprozessen in Potsdam entgegenwirken.
Im Leitbild werden die Grundwerte (Nachhaltigkeit, Inklusion und Bildungsgerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte und Demokratie, Gemeinschaft, Ganzheitlichkeit) und die Bildungsziele (Transferfähigkeit, kritisch-reflexives Denken und lebensbegleitendes Lernen, Diversitätsbewusstsein und Transkulturalität, Selbstkompetenz und Beziehungskompetenz, Kulturtechniken und digitale Kompetenz) der Universitätsschule dargestellt. Das Pädagogische Konzept veranschaulicht, wie Werte und Bildungsziele in den Bereichen Schulform, Schulkultur, Lernkultur sowie Lernorte und Lernumgebung ausgestaltet werden können. Schließlich wird die Universitätsschule als lernende und lehrende Institution beschrieben, die ein Ort des Transfers von Bildungsinnovationen ist. Dafür soll eine Transferwerkstatt in der Schule verankert werden, die den Wissensaustausch der schulrelevanten Akteur:innen unterstützt und gestaltet.
In dem Buch beschäftigen sich die Autoren zunächst mit den Ursachen, Faktoren und Bedingungen von Lernbeeinträchtigungen angesichts erschwerter Lebens- und lernsituationen und sich überlagernder Entwicklungsrisiken. Neben der Förderdiagnostik stehen dann vor allem neue pädagogisch-didaktische Ansätze zur Gestaltung schulischer Lernprozesse und konkrete Anregungen zur veränderten Gestaltung von Unterricht im Mittelpunkt.
Der Beitrag stellt Teilergebnisse zu Prozessen der Selbstregulation von Schülern mit geistiger Behinderung in den Mittelpunkt. Die Einzelfallanlyse erfolgt unter Kenntnis physiologischer Parameter der Selbstregulation im pädagogischen Kontext. Aspekte der chronopsychobiologischen Regulationsdiagnostik finden Einbindung in den Beitrag.
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wurde zunächst auf der Grundlage des COACTIV-Modells der professionellen Kompetenz von Lehrkräften (Baumert & Kunter, 2011) und dessen Spezifizierungen und Ergänzungen für inklusive Bildungsprozesse (Gebhardt et al., 2018; Ries et al., 2020) ein Modell für den sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt emotionale und soziale Entwicklung entwickelt. Ein besonderer Fokus lag hier auch auf der Förderung von Beziehungs- und Reflexionskompetenzen. Unter Nutzung des entwickelten Modells wurde ein Praktikumskonzept zur Professionalisierung von angehenden Lehrkräften im sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt emotionale und soziale Entwicklung erstellt. Die relevanten Kompetenzbereiche wurden mithilfe verschiedener Methoden und Techniken praxisnah operationalisiert und einer gezielten Förderung zugänglich gemacht. Neben der Vermittlung von theoretischem Grundlagenwissen erhielten Studierende die Möglichkeit, im Tandem eine von regelmäßigen Supervisionen und kollegialen Fallberatungen begleitete Einzelfallförderung an Schulen durchzuführen und diese im Einzelfalldesign zu evaluieren. Das Seminarkonzept wurde in geltende Studienordnungen implementiert und soll perspektivisch mit den eigens konzipierten Inhalten und Materialien als Open Educational Resources zur freien Verfügung für andere Ausbildungsstandorte gestellt werden. Zudem erfolgt aktuell eine summative Evaluation des Seminarkonzepts im Kontrollgruppendesign.
Schulpraktika bilden die zentrale Grundlage der Lehrerbildung in Potsdam. Bereits im Potsdamer Modell der Lehrerbildung (1993) sind sie festgehalten, seit der Integration des Schulpraktikums (Praxissemesters) 2008 absolvieren alle Potsdamer Lehramtsstudierenden fünf Pflichtpraktika. Während die Ziele der Praktika klar beschrieben sind, sind die tatsächlichen Lernerfolge nicht immer klar – ebenso wenig, wie die Begleitung der Praktika aussehen muss, um die Studierenden bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Auch die Integration in weitere Lehrveranstaltungen des Studiums ist ein noch offenes Feld, das weiterer Betrachtung verdient. Die unterschiedliche Ausrichtung der Potsdamer Praktika, Perspektivwechsel im Orientierungs-/Integriertem Eingangspraktikum, Selbstreflektion im Praktikum in pädagogisch-psychologischen Handlungsfeldern, Unterricht als Profession in den Fachdidaktischen Tagespraktika, Anwendung von Diagnostik im psychodiagnostischen Praktikum und die Synthese all dessen im Schulpraktikum, bieten dafür zahlreiche Ansatzpunkte.
Schulpraktika sind nicht nur ein zentraler und von Studierenden hoch geschätzter Bestandteil des Studiums, sondern werden auch zunehmend für die Bildungsforschung interessant. Fragen nach der Kompetenzentwicklung, Selbsteinschätzungen und der Entwicklung der Reflexionsfähigkeit von Studierenden stehen dabei ebenso im Fokus wie die Einschätzung der universitären Begleitung und der Einbindung ins weitere Studium.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt Studien von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Universität Potsdam, die die fünf Pflichtpraktika im Lehramtsstudium unter unterschiedlichen Blickwinkel beforschen. Besonders hervorzuheben ist, dass die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen stammen und somit die Praktika mit verschiedenen Instrumenten und aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln betrachten. Die präsentierten Ergebnisse bilden eine gute Grundlage, um die Praktika in Potsdam und an anderen Standorten weiterzuentwickeln.
This study examines the discourse basis for referent accessibility and its relation to the choice of referring expressions by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developing children. The aim is to delineate how the linguistic and extra-linguistic context affects referent accessibility to the speaker. The study also examines the degree to which accessibility effects are modulated by cognitive factors such as working memory capacity. In the study, the contrast levels between the referent and a competitor (one contrast/two contrasts) and the syntactic prominence of the referent (subject/object position in the preceding question) were manipulated in an elicited production task. The results provide evidence that the referring expressions of children with ASD correlate with the discourse status of referents to a similar extent as in typically developing controls. All children were more likely to refer with lexical NPs to referents that contrasted on two levels with a highly prominent competitor, compared to referents that contrasted on one level. They were also more likely to produce pronouns for referents previously mentioned in the subject than the object position. The effect of both discourse factors was modulated by the age and working memory capacity of the children with and without ASD. Accordingly, the study suggests that children with ASD do not generally differ from children with typical development in their referential choices when the discourse status of a referent allows them to model the referent's accessibility from their own discourse perspective in a way that is modulated by working memory capacity.
Person-centered trajectories of cultural values and behaviors among Chinese American adolescents
(2017)
This study examined change in acculturation values and behavior among 310 Chinese American adolescents, and how patterns of change were related to key demographic variables and indicators of positive youth development. Dual process group-based trajectory models of change in U.S. and Chinese values and behaviors indicated a six-group solution for each. The results showed that acculturation value patterns were not related to gender, nativity, or parent education, but were related to family cohesion, self-esteem, general and academic self-efficacy, and GPA. Acculturation behavior patterns were not related to gender but were related to nativity and parent education, and were also related to general self-efficacy and family cohesion. Taken together, our findings suggest that most trajectories of acculturation are associated with positive outcomes, but there are small groups of adolescents that function very well (those who maintain higher behavioral involvement in both) and some not very well, especially those whose behaviors are becoming more disparate over time. Special Issue: Explaining Positive Adaptation of Immigrant Youth across Cultures. (C) 2017 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Peer cultural socialisation
(2019)
This study investigated how peers can contribute to cultural minority students’ cultural identity, life satisfaction, and school values (school importance, utility, and intrinsic values) by talking about cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours associated with heritage and mainstream culture (peer cultural socialisation). We further distinguished between heritage and mainstream identity as two separate dimensions of cultural identity. Analyses were based on self-reports of 662 students of the first, second, and third migrant generation in Germany (Mean age = 14.75 years, 51% female). Path analyses revealed that talking about heritage culture with friends was positively related to heritage identity. Talking about mainstream culture with friends was negatively associated with heritage identity, but positively with mainstream identity as well as school values. Both dimensions of cultural identity related to higher life satisfaction and more positive school values. As expected, heritage and mainstream identity mediated the link between peer cultural socialisation and adjustment outcomes. Findings highlight the potential of peers as socialisation agents to help promote cultural belonging as well as positive adjustment of cultural minority youth in the school context.
Public Significance Statement As we have entered an age of unprecedented mass displacement, global solutions are necessary. Participatory science offers an opportunity for a transformative shift toward equitable partnerships between researchers and communities toward innovation and may provide a key to unsolved problems, as well as tap into the possibilities for progress and growth. This special issue on participatory research with immigrant and refugee communities offers a roadmap for advancing the field of psychology.
Objectives:
The major global problems of our day, including mass displacement, climate change, violence, and pandemic, necessitate global solutions. In a world where injustice and inequities are rampant, psychologists stand at the precipice of social change and action, with an opportunity to unambiguously decolonize our research methodologies, and engage in scholarship that provides immediate benefits to communities.
Method:
Participatory methods offer an opportunity to co-create an empowering, equitable, inclusive, and ethical science in partnership with communities.
Results:
This special issue on Collaborative and Participatory Research to Promote Engagement, Empowerment, and Resilience for Immigrant and Refugee Youth, Families, and Communities highlights exemplary interdisciplinary work that has emerged in learning from and working in partnership with immigrant and refugee youth, families, and communities.
Conclusions:
The special issue offers six major components of participatory methodologies that provide a roadmap to decolonizing psychological science, recognize the potentials for innovation and impact, and advance the field.
Purpose:
This study examines the contribution of number morphology to language comprehension abilities among children with specific language impairment (SLI) and age-matched controls. It addresses the question of whether number agreement facilitates the comprehension accuracy of object-initial declarative sentences. According to the predictions of the structural intervention account for German, number agreement should assist the correct interpretation of object-initial sentences.
Method:
This study examines German-speaking children with SLI and a control group of age-matched typically developing children on their sentence comprehension skills for auditory presented subject-verb-object and object-verb-subject (OVS) sentences. The sentences were manipulated with respect to the number properties of the noun phrases (e.g., one plural and one singular, or both singular) and the number agreement of the verb.
Results:
The group of children with SLI demonstrated poorer comprehension accuracy in comparison to controls. Comprehension difficulty was limited to OVS sentences among children with SLI. In addition, children with SLI comprehended OVS sentences in which number agreement (with plural subject and verb inflection) indicated the noncanonical word order more accurately than OVS sentences with two singular noun phrases and therein did not differ from controls.
Conclusion:
The study suggests that number agreement helps alleviate the difficulty with OVS sentences and enhances comprehension accuracy, despite the finding that children with SLI exhibit lower comprehension accuracy and more heterogeneous interindividual differences, relative to controls.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) both are rare genetic neuromuscular diseases with progressive loss of motor ability. The neuromotor developmental course of those diseases is well documented. In contrast, there is only little evidence about characteristics of general and specific cognitive development. In both conditions the final motor outcome is characterized by an inability to move autonomously: children with SMA never accomplish independent motoric exploration of their environment, while children with DMD do but later lose this ability again. These profound differences in developmental pathways might affect cognitive development of SMA vs. DMD children, as cognition is shaped by individual motor experiences. DMD patients show impaired executive functions, working memory, and verbal IQ, whereas only motor ability seems to be impaired in SMA. Advanced cognitive capacity in SMA may serve as a compensatory mechanism for achieving in education, career progression, and social satisfaction. This study aimed to relate differences in basic numerical concepts and arithmetic achievement in SMA and DMD patients to differences in their motor development and resulting sensorimotor and environmental experiences. Horizontal and vertical spatial-numerical associations were explored in SMA/DMD children ranging between 6 and 12 years through the random number generation task. Furthermore, arithmetic skills as well as general cognitive ability were assessed. Groups differed in spatial number processing as well as in arithmetic and domain-general cognitive functions. Children with SMA showed no horizontal and even reversed vertical spatial-numerical associations. Children with DMD on the other hand revealed patterns in spatial numerical associations comparable to healthy developing children. From the embodied Cognition perspective, early sensorimotor experience does play a role in development of mental number representations. However, it remains open whether and how this becomes relevant for the acquisition of higher order cognitive and arithmetic skills.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) both are rare genetic neuromuscular diseases with progressive loss of motor ability. The neuromotor developmental course of those diseases is well documented. In contrast, there is only little evidence about characteristics of general and specific cognitive development. In both conditions the final motor outcome is characterized by an inability to move autonomously: children with SMA never accomplish independent motoric exploration of their environment, while children with DMD do but later lose this ability again. These profound differences in developmental pathways might affect cognitive development of SMA vs. DMD children, as cognition is shaped by individual motor experiences. DMD patients show impaired executive functions, working memory, and verbal IQ, whereas only motor ability seems to be impaired in SMA. Advanced cognitive capacity in SMA may serve as a compensatory mechanism for achieving in education, career progression, and social satisfaction. This study aimed to relate differences in basic numerical concepts and arithmetic achievement in SMA and DMD patients to differences in their motor development and resulting sensorimotor and environmental experiences. Horizontal and vertical spatial-numerical associations were explored in SMA/DMD children ranging between 6 and 12 years through the random number generation task. Furthermore, arithmetic skills as well as general cognitive ability were assessed. Groups differed in spatial number processing as well as in arithmetic and domain-general cognitive functions. Children with SMA showed no horizontal and even reversed vertical spatial-numerical associations. Children with DMD on the other hand revealed patterns in spatial numerical associations comparable to healthy developing children. From the embodied Cognition perspective, early sensorimotor experience does play a role in development of mental number representations. However, it remains open whether and how this becomes relevant for the acquisition of higher order cognitive and arithmetic skills.
We examined state evaluation anxiety, trait evaluation anxiety, and neuroticism in relation to New Zealand first-year university students' (n = 234) task performance on either a test or essay assessment. For both assessment types, the underlying components of state evaluation anxiety (cognitive worry, emotionality, and distraction) reflect linear-as opposed to nonlinear-associations with task performance. Results of several regression models show differential effects of both state evaluation anxiety and neuroticism on task performance depending on the assessment type. The multi-dimensionality of anxiety and its relative contribution on task performance across authentic types of assessment are discussed.
Mismatch of the South African foundation phase curriculum demands and learners’ current knowledge
(2020)
Against the background of the low mathematical performance of South African learners in international panel studies, there is an urgent need to improve mathematical education. In particular, the curriculum and its structure raise questions. It is logical that the prescribed curricula should align with learners' developmental trajectories. Given the hierarchical structure of mathematics, the curricular requirements should pay attention to learners' current knowledge of mathematical concepts. The aim of this study was to compare the curricular requirements as defined by the CAPS with the conceptual current knowledge of South African learners. South African Grade 1 learners (N = 602) were assessed on a test of numeracy concepts, based on a theoretically informed and empirically validated model of developing mathematical proficiency. The content of the CAPS for Grade 1 was aligned to the model levels by two experts (Cohen's kappa = .753, p < 0.001). Results show that the curricular requirements go far beyond the current knowledge required to engage with these new concepts of the vast majority of South African Grade 1 learners. The mismatch may to some extent be responsible for the unsatisfactory results in international comparison studies. These results show that the intended curriculum is beyond the grasp of most South African Grade 1 learners. These children are unlikely to develop new arithmetic concepts based on their lack of required foundation knowledge. We therefore argue that the intended curriculum for Grade 1 should focus more on counting skills, ordinal relations between numbers and-most importantly-set-based number representations and part-part-whole relations.
This study examines the role of the lexicon and grammatical structure building in early grammar. Parent-report data in CDI format from a sample of 1151 German-speaking children between 1;6 and 2;6 and longitudinal spontaneous speech data from 22 children between 1;8 and 2;5 were used. Regression analysis of the parent-report data indicates that grammatical words have a stronger influence on concurrent syntactic complexity than lexical words. Time-lagged correlations using the spontaneous speech data showed that lexical words at 1;8 predict subsequent MLU at 2;1 significantly; grammatical words do not. MLU at 2;5 is significantly predicted by grammatical words and no longer by lexical words. The influence of different grammatical subcategories on subsequent MLU varies. Use of articles and the copula at 2;1 most strongly predicts MLU at 2;5. Children use both types of articles and multiple determiners before a noun to the same extent as adults. The present results are suggestive of early grammatical structure building.
Berichtet wird über Evaluationsergebnisse zu zwei neuen Trainingsprogrammen für das Lernhandeln. Das erste war motivationalen Schwerpunkten (Zielsetzungsverhalten u.a.) gewidmet. Das zweite diente der Förderung der Metakognition bei der Realisierung von Lernhandlungen. Beide Trainings erwiesen sich als effektiv. Die Wirkungen wurden dadurch bestimmt, wie die Programme den Schülern Leistungszuversicht vermittelten. Beim metakognitiven Realisierungstraining geschah das vorwiegend durch Stärkung der Kontrollerfahrung, beim motivationalen durch verbesserte Zielklärung. Diese Potenzen kamen bei den Schülergruppen mit impulsivem versus zögerlichem Lernverhalten differentiell zur Geltung.
Der Theorie des gemeinsamen Lerngegenstandes für den integrativen Unterricht folgend, werden Ausführungen zum pädagogischen Leistungsverständnis und zu Möglichkeiten leistungsbezogener Differenzierung zwischen Grundschülern und Schülern im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung im gemeinsamen Musikunterricht thematisiert.