englischBoth pedagogy and its science should face questions of power. Educational science takes up this challenge. On the one hand, it explicitly criticizes pedagogical practice and the profession and critically questions the discipline itself; on the other hand, it rather implicitly strives for [...]

englischCurricula are a result of educational policy and pedagogical will. The curriculum development of the upper elementary school and the lower secondary school in Bavaria from 1945 to 2000 is presented to the reader in a longitudinal section. In doing so, continuities and discontinuities are [...]

englischWith its new research approach, the study presented in this book represents a valuable enrichment and necessary extension of the quantitative paradigm of resilience research. The qualitative-reconstructive approach opens up a particularly authentic access to the biographical data, obtained [...]

englischIn a time of rapid societal changes around the globe, there is a pressing need for genuine elucidation of Muslim moral values and norms, especially in migration contexts. These rapid changes raise questions about the conservation of the ‘self’ and the adaptation of norms and values to [...]

englischIn previous research on Islamic education, the students’ perspective has been largely neglected. Against this background, this study examines the religious attitudes of Muslim children and adolescents with regard to the potential of Islamic education in schools. It shows how Muslim students [...]

englischA dialogical examination of the Qur'an as an approach to transcendence is elementary remembering. This book examines topics such as understanding revelation and scripture, gender justice or anthropology exegetically and from the perspectives of textual criticism and the history of religion, [...]

englischAll educational professions require a professional approach to media: But what are media? Neutral intermediaries? Or does every medium have its own message? Only which one? Are media instruments in teaching? Or do they create conditions for pedagogical practice? Do media represent reality? [...]

englischThe reconstruction of the concept of labour in Adorno’s work forms the basis of this volume. The book’s recourse to, among others, Hegel and Marx, two decisive influences on Adorno's thinking, reveal a clear contrast through which Adorno's concept of work can be contoured particularly [...]

englischThe museum is a different place of learning for school classes and must be legitimised as a place of reference in the out-of-school learning context.

The leitmotif “change of place” is introduced in a space-theoretical line with Foucault’s heterotopology. The discourse on out-of-school [...]

englischThis introduction to pedagogy establishes the principles of pedagogical action. Based on the responsibility of every human being for him- or herself, fellow human beings and the environment, the core task of pedagogy is to convincingly substantiate justified claims. Instruction, education, [...]

englischIn international and national studies on the topic of academic success and drop-outs, the conditions of the university context were given priority in addition to individual competences. Other life domains of the students were rather neglected. This book analyses the influence of important [...]

englischHow can inclusivity be implemented in a German international school, a necessarily exclusive type of school which educates children from international expat families and operates according to the particular conditions in the host country? What laws and social conventions have to be taken [...]