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Educational research is often focused on biographies. Literacy and basic education frequently use knowledge about biographies as a means for educational support within the scope of catch-up education (“second chance”). The article discusses how biographically generated knowledge can be transferred into pedagogical practice. The authors give up on the idea of a direct “utilization” of biographical insights into practical work – the yield is rather to indirectly stimulate and irritate professiona…
The paratext of biographical interviews This article profiles everything which the biography researcher intentionally prompts or unintentionally receives during field work from his interview partners in the way of “paratext” which contributes to the design of the subject of research. Thus a notion which is usually used in the field of literature science is in this manner adopted in biographical research.
Both interest in and understanding of narrative analysis has developed rapidly in recent years and is now a mainstream element of research across many disciplines. In this book, the author illustrates as many facets as possible of the stories people tell about their lives. She demonstrates the interconnectedness between engagements in narrative research and shows that the theoretical understanding of the nature of narrative is bound up with the methods for biographical narrative research. Throu…
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
The development of modern societies depends on a wide variety of an individual’s social commitment beyond gainful employment that can be subsumed under the term “volunteering”. Analysing empirical interviews, this article outlines the range and the transition of subjective educational biographic meanings of volunteering from the perspective of the volunteers. Thereby the appropriateness of qualitative longitudinal studies for specific research-purposes of long-term educational biographic change…
Band 1: Biographische Erfahrung und wissenschaftl. Theorie • erschließt aus über 2000 Lebensgeschichten der Weltliteratur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart den Lernprozess Krisenverarbeitung in 8 archetypischen Spiralphasen, • stellt das Spiral-Denkmodell Krisenverarbeitung in bildungspolitische, wissenschaftstheorethische, zeitgeschichtliche und kunst- und kulturgeschichtliche Kontexte • exemplifiziert die Krisenverarbeitung repräsentativ: - in zahlreichen Auto-/Biographien aus aller Welt - …
In Krisenmanagement und Integration, Band 2 wird aus vier Jahrzehnten Forschungs-, Bildungs- und Politikpraxis das Krisen-Management-Interaktionsmodell zum Lernprozess Krisenverarbeitung als komplementären 3-Schritte-Prozess der von Krisen schon und noch nicht betroffenen Menschen vorgestellt. Die Autorin fokussiert den Paradigmenwechsel visionär in den Komplementär-Thesen (individuell und kollektiv): Krisen - Herausforderung und verborgener Reichtum; Krisen-Management gesellschaftliche Schlüss…
