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Summary: (Olaf Beuchling: Participation as a Research Mode: From the Practice of the Participant Observation): The following article deals with participant observation, a social-science method that, in spite of its long tradition, still has a high exploratory, documentary, and theoretical potential. Participant observation is a social-science procedure in which the researchers participate in the everyday… Read More »

Summary (Evelyn Fischer & Renate Girmes: The relevance of a reflective professional further education for the economic and social development of the Russian Federation): The following discussion focuses on dispositions connected with capitalism and socialism that have characterized Russian societal structures for decades. It points to the construction of both the economic and social system… Read More »

Summary: (Markus D. Meier: The Gender Dichotomy in Educational Contexts from a Sociobiological Perspective.) The abundance of pedagogical and educational literature on the term “gender” can hardly be overlooked any longer. Approaches which thematically group the variable “gender” exclusively under aspects of social construction dominate the educational discourse on “learning and gender.” In comparison, this… Read More »

Bargen, Imke von (2014): Lehrkräfte in einer globalisierten Welt. Eine länderübergreifende Studie zu ihrem beruflichen Selbstverständnis. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. (ISBN: 978-3-658-06189-0) Imke von Bargen erforscht in ihrer Studie, inwiefern das berufliche Selbstverständnis von Lehrkräften in England und Deutschland durch nationale Besonderheiten bzw. globale Tendenzen geprägt ist. Vor allem mit Blick auf ähnliche Steuerungstendenzen… Read More »