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Case-based Learning as a Means of Professionalization of Teaching Staff In adult and teacher education, case-based learning seems a promising way to foster analytical competencies which play a crucial role when identifying and solving practical problems in teaching situations. Thus, the article offers an insight into established concepts of case-based learning within different contexts for the professionalization (of teachers). Therefore, two discourses will be related to one another: one o…
Dealing professionally with negative emotions Tolerance of frustration and ambiguity as a key competence of providers of continuing education Dealing with disruptions is a key challenge in educational activities. This article uses abusive, insulting or fault-finding statements by participants to analyse professional ways of dealing with negative emotions. Tolerance of frustration and ambiguity are developed theoretically, understood as an element of a broad “feelings-management” and propa…
"Introduction into adult education“ Constitution of object and theory perspectives in the medium of a specific literature genre The contribution analyses in an observation of second order the specific method, with which the newly "introduction into adult education“ is constituted its object and thereby brings to bear a special perspectivity. The four analysed introductions make a topic of adult education as a double search move, as professional learning intercede, of learning as an institut…
Constructivism as a legitimation for self-directed learning with new media? Constructivism does not seldomly only serve primarily the legitimation of current "teaching-learning-technologies". So the conclusion of "constructivism legitimizes self-directed learning and therefore learning with new media" in the media-didactical literature is wide spread. The present text shall investigate, whether these are logical conclusions or whether they are "short circuits". For this the relation of const…
Anhand der Begriffe: Wahrnehmen, Denken, Lernen und Lehren wird aus den Perspektiven der Neurowissenschaften, der konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie und der fachdidaktischen Forschungen zu Lernervorstellung eine Theorie der Vermittlung - also des Lernens und Lehrens - vorgestellt.
Aus der Perspektive der Kognitions- und Emotionspsychologie und der Hirnforschung werden Erklärungsansätze dafür entwickelt, warum Lehren und Lernen aus inhärenten Gründen grundsätzlich schwierig sind.
