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The contribution reports central thoughts of the American psychologist Csikszentmihalyi from the book “FLOW“, and it sharpens the statements on the reality of learners and teachers. “Flow“ stands for the “optimum experience“. Therewith Csikszentmihalyi indicates a feeling of high spirits, of deeply felt joy that lasts long and that occurs when body and soul of a person is strained to limits in the voluntary endeavour to achieve something difficult and something valuable. In this condition, orde…
The author has collected self-reports of functional illiterates and questioned them on their “joy potential“. Three qualitatively set up analyses of the 1990s serve as sources. The contribution shows that the participation in literacy courses can cause a significant increase of self-confidence by overcoming experiences of deficit. The experience of attention and support is seen as encouraging and it contributes considerably to take over responsibility for one’s own life.
Learning as a way out of »self-paralysis« In this article learning is understood as an ‘emergence’-like movement in which people put their own patterns of learning into movement. This movement is illustrated using the example of South American businessperson. Special attention is devoted in the article to the learning movement is inhibited by: experiences of the past, recollections and emotions. The key to overcoming this ‘self-paralysis’ is a method of targeted cognitive self-observation w…
Der Beitrag begründet aus einer didaktischen Perspektive, warum den gefühlsgesteuerten Aspekten des Lernens beim E-Learning mehr Bedeutung zukommen sollte. Im Anschluss werden konkrete Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, wie über die Gestaltung von Aufgaben die Lust am Lernen - durch Provokation - zu erhöhen ist.
Competence and education, emotions and virtues The ambivalence of competence in the portfolio experience of volunteers A portfolio setting in which volunteers identify, evaluate and document their competencies acquired through voluntary work is at the same time a location of special experience with education and competence: competencies expected by the labour market and acquired in voluntary work converge with predominating notions of education. This article looks at the antagonisms and int…
Gehirnforschungen, Kognitions- und Emotionsforschungen gehören zu den Wachstumsdisziplinen der vergangenen Jahre. Generell sind die pädagogischen Einschätzungen der Erkenntnisse von Forschungen zu Gehirn, Kognition und Emotion uneinheitlich. Die einen befürchten einen Biologismus des pädagogischen Denkens, die anderen prognostizieren eine völlig neue Neurodidaktik. Zwischen diesen beiden Extremen bewegen sich oft die erziehungswissenschaftlichen Rezeptionen von Forschungsergebnissen neurologisc…
