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Die deutschen Hochschulen stehen bei der inklusionspädagogischen Qualifizierung von Lehrkräften vor großen Herausforderungen. Bisher liegen für diesen Bereich im deutschsprachigen Raum nur vereinzelte Kompetenzmodelle und Standards vor, an denen sich Hochschulen bei der Entwicklung von Studiengängen orientieren können. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird im vorliegenden Beitrag untersucht, welches Kompetenzprofil einer Lehrkraft im inklusiven Setting sich abzeichnet, wenn man Modulhandbücher (MHB) von inklusionspädagogisch ausgerichteten Lehramtsstudiengängen analysiert. Untersucht werden die MHB von acht Studiengängen mit einer weitgehenden Verschränkung regel- und sonderschulpädagogischer Anteile an vier deutschen Universitätsstandorten. Als Vergleichsmaßstab wird hierbei das Kompetenzprofil der European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education (2012) zugrunde gelegt, weil es einen vergleichsweise hohen Differenzierungsgrad aufweist. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die in den MHB beschriebenen Kompetenzen vorrangig auf zwei der vier vorhandenen Werte im Kompetenzprofil der European Agency beziehen. Kompetenzbereiche innerhalb des Wertes Zusammenarbeit mit anderen und innerhalb des Wertes der persönlichen beruflichen Weiterentwicklung finden sich im Vergleich zu den Werten Wertschätzung der Vielfalt der Lernenden und Unterstützung aller Lernenden vergleichsweise selten. Mit Blick auf die Kompetenzdimensionen der European Agency (Wissen, Einstellungen, Fähigkeiten & Fertigkeiten) werden in den MHB insbesondere wissensbezogene Kompetenzdimensionen adressiert und seltener Fertigkeiten sowie Einstellungen. Diese und weitere Befunde werden vor dem Hintergrund der spezifischen Bedingungen der Lehrerbildung in Deutschland und dem Forschungsstand zu inklusionspädagogischen Lehrerkompetenzen innerhalb der GrundschullehrerInnenbildung diskutiert. Darüber hinaus werden Empfehlungen für eine inklusionspädagogisch ausgerichtete Curriculumentwicklung formuliert.
Gewalt in Familie und Schule
(2021)
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Gewaltphänomenen in den zwei zentralen Sozialisationsinstanzen des Kindes- und Jugendalters: der Familie und der Schule. Es werden zentrale Entwicklungslinien und Ergebnisse der Forschung zur familialen und schulischen Gewalt vorgestellt, wobei ein Schwerpunkt auf die deutschsprachige Forschung gelegt wird. Eingegangen wird auf die zentralen Gewaltformen, ihre Verbreitung, Ursachen und Folgen sowie auf Strategien der Prävention und Intervention.
Der psychischen Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zuteil geworden. Immer deutlicher zeichnet sich ab, dass auch diese Altersgruppe von Einschränkungen der psychischen Gesundheit nicht ausgenommen ist und dass psychische Probleme im Kindes- und Jugendalter eine hohe Vorhersagekraft für psychische Erkrankungen im Erwachsenenalter haben. Gleichzeitig verfügen wir über einen immer breiter werdenden Erkenntnisstand zur Bedeutung des psychischen Wohlbefindens von Kindern und Jugendlichen für ihre gesunde Entwicklung, ihren schulischen Erfolg und für ihre soziale Teilhabe.
Frühzeitig geriet in diesem Zusammenhang auch die Lebenswelt Schule in das Blickfeld. Es wurden schulbezogene Ressourcen und Risikofaktoren für die psychische Gesundheit untersucht und auf dieser Grundlage Maßnahmen und Programme zur schulbasierten Förderung der psychischen Gesundheit entwickelt, evaluiert und punktuell auch an Schulen implementiert.
Vergleichsweise neu – vor allem im deutschsprachigen Raum – ist die Idee, das Thema psychische Gesundheit nicht nur im Rahmen zeitlich befristeter Projekte oder Präventionsprogramme an Schulen heranzutragen, sondern diesbezügliche Kompetenzen regulär zum Gegenstand von schulischen Bildungsprozessen zu machen, entweder fächerübergreifend oder gar im Rahmen eines eigenen Schulfaches Gesundheit.
Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, die Notwendigkeit einer stärkeren Verankerung psychischer Gesundheitsbildung in der Schule zu untersuchen, bereits vorliegende Erkenntnisse zusammenzutragen, mögliche Ziele, Konzepte und Inhalte einer Gesundheitsbildung im Bereich der psychischen Gesundheit zu analysieren und auf Herausforderungen hinzuweisen.
Teachers’ responses to incidents of bullying among students can be important for bullying dynamics. Theoretical models of teachers’ intervention competence and the theory of planned behavior suggest that teachers’ bullying intervention self-efficacy may be associated with teachers’ responses to bullying and students’ bullying behavior and bullying victimization experiences. Several studies report an association between teachers’ self-efficacy and their intervention behavior in incidents of bullying. However, the possible association with student bullying perpetration has rarely been examined so far. The current study explores the association between class teachers’ self-efficacy and students’ bullying victimization, perpetration, and combined bully-victim behavior in a sample of 2,071 students and their 93 class teachers in Germany. The results suggest an association between class teachers’ self-efficacy and students’ perpetration behavior. The higher teachers’ bullying intervention self-efficacy, the fewer students seem to bully other students. In contrast, teachers’ self-efficacy was not associated with students’ victimization experiences and students’ bully-victim behavior. Possible underlying mechanisms, as well as limitations of the present results, are discussed. Further research is needed to substantiate the findings.
Purpose. Teachers are exposed to many stressors. Compared to other occupational groups, they are more frequently affected by psychosomatic complaints. In recent decades, numerous prevention and intervention measures for promoting health have been developed and implemented for this target group. However, it remains unclear how the uptake of health-promotion measures (HPMs) by teachers can be increased in order to prevent stress-related disorders. This paper examines two facets of health literacy—health awareness and health value—in terms of their importance in both the take-up and intended take-up of HPMs.
Design/methodology/approach. In the 2017/2018 school year, data were collected by paper and pencil from a representative sample of 830 teachers across all school types in the German State of Brandenburg.
Findings. Teachers who place great value on their own health show significantly higher levels of take-up and intended take-up of HPMs. The findings regarding health awareness are more heterogeneous. Further associations were found with age and psychosocial stress.
Originality/value. While there has been growing academic interest in developing HPMs for teachers, there has been relatively little focus on the factors that may influence the implementation and uptake of these measures. The paper contributes to addressing this gap by shedding light on the relevance of two facets of health literacy. Strengthening the perceived importance of health could be a starting point for increasing the use of HPMs by teachers and thus improving their health.
Introduction
Teachers must have sufficient intervention competence to intervene successfully in bullying situations. In addition to knowledge and beliefs, motivational orientations are considered important components in teacher competence models (Kunter et al., 2013). Motivation can include all aspects that influence if, with which intensity, and how people act. In the context of bullying intervention, this includes self-efficacy, empathy, and self-regulation. However, while self-efficacy is one of the most investigated motivational aspects of teachers (Fischer et al., 2020; Kunter, 2013, Lauermann et al., 2020), the other aspects – self-regulation and empathy – have only been seldomly investigated in the context of student bullying (Berkovich, 2020; Fischer & Bilz, 2019).
Method
Based on findings from published single studies as well as unpublished analyses, the associations between teachers’ motivational orientations (self-efficacy, self-regulation, empathy) and their likelihood of intervention (reported by teachers and students) as well as their students’ bullying experiences (as bullies, victims, and bully-victims) will be presented. All analyses are based on a study that was conducted in Germany with more than 2,000 students and 556 teachers at 24 schools. Teachers’ likelihood of intervention was assessed in bullying situations that have been reported retrospectively by students and teachers. Logistic regression analyses (multilevel analyses when appropriate) have been conducted.
Results
Findings show that teachers’ self-efficacy was associated with teachers’ likelihood of intervention from the teachers’ perspectives. Also, students whose teachers reported higher self-efficacy and a higher tendency to reflect their behaviours thoroughly and choose wisely (a component of self-regulation) reported fewer bullying experiences. The students’ perspective on the teachers’ likelihood of intervention was associated with experiences as bullies, bullied, and bully-victims, but could not be explained by teachers’ motivational orientations.
Conclusion
Possible underlying pathways and areas requiring further research as well as practical and theoretical implications will be discussed.
Hate speech is unequivocally seen as harmful to individuals and communities (United Nations, 2019), but little is yet known about the current state of research on the frequency of hate speech among children and adolescents. Evidence suggests that definitional ambiguities of hate speech exist in academic research (e.g., Brown, 2017). But without a precise theoretical definition of hate speech, standardized assessment methods and the ability to soundly differentiate it from related phenomena, empirical research may lack validity and comparability. For research on children and adolescents in particular, hate speech needs to be differentiated from bullying (e.g., Lehmann, 2019). In a systematic review, we thus identified and systematized empirical studies on hate speech.
Hate speech is often discussed and investigated as an online phenomenon, while hate speech among adolescents in the real world (e.g., in schools) has rarely been researched. Consequently, not much is known about potential interpersonal correlates and theoretical frameworks that might help us better understand why adolescents engage in hate speech in offline environments. To add to the literature, this study investigates hate speech perpetration among young people by utilizing the Social Cognitive Theory; more specifically, the association between witnessing and perpetrating hate speech in schools, and whether this relation is weakened or strengthened by anti-hate speech injunctive norms and deviant peer pressure. The sample consists of 1719 young people (45.1% boys, 53.6% girls, 1.3% gender diverse) between 11 and 18 years old (Mage = 13.96; SD = .98) from 22 schools in Switzerland. Self-report questionnaires were administered to measure hate speech involvement and adolescents’ perception of social norms (i.e., anti-hate speech injunctive norms and deviant peer pressure). Multilevel regression analyses revealed that witnessing and perpetrating hate speech were positively associated. Moreover, injunctive anti-hate speech norms were negatively related and deviant peer pressure positively related to hate speech perpetration. Finally, increasing levels of injunctive anti-hate speech norms weakened the relation between witnessing and perpetrating hate speech, whereas higher levels of deviant peer pressure strengthened this association. The findings demonstrate that the Social Cognitive Theory is a useful framework for understanding hate speech perpetration in schools. The results also highlight the importance of taking into account social norms and interpersonal relationships (e.g., within the class) when designing anti-hate speech prevention programs and not focusing solely on intrapersonal factors.
Some of the physical health complaints adolescents have, such as headaches and stomachaches, cannot be explained on a somatic level. It is unclear which psychological factors can explain these complaints: stress and social support are often discussed, but emotions rarely are. Aims: This cross-sectional study aims to use social support, stress, the tendency toward negative emotions, and health behaviors to predict physical health complaints in adolescents. Method: The 2018 HBSC (Health Behavior in School-aged Children) data from the German state of Brandenburg was analyzed via structural equation and path modeling (N = 3,068, age M = 13.05). Results: Results showed that the tendency toward negative emotions seems to be a better predictor for health complaints (β = .35) than stress (β = .17), and even better suited than social support (β = −.08) or health behavior (β = −.06 to β = .16). In the analysis of specific emotions (anger, sadness, and fear), correlations were low and between sadness and complaints they were highest (average β = .19). Limitations: The present cross-sectional study could not examine long-term outcomes. In addition, the results are limited to only a few physical complaints. Future long-term studies should examine multiple disease symptoms in adolescence. Conclusion: The investigated tendency toward negative emotions demonstrated promising results to better understand the relationship between psychological factors and physical health complaints. As negative emotions were particularly important in predicting physical health, prevention programs for adolescents should focus on dealing with negative emotions to improve their health.
Adolescents around the globe are increasingly exposed to online hate speech (OHS). And yet little is known about the varying roles of involvement and the determinants of adolescents' hate speech perpetration. Building on previous research, this study aims to test the cycle of violence hypothesis for OHS and to analyze whether moral disengagement (MD) and empathy moderate the victim-to-perpetrator relationship. The sample consists of 3,560 seventh to ninth graders (52.1 percent girls), recruited from 40 schools across Germany and Switzerland. Self-report questionnaires were administered to assess OHS involvement, MD, and empathy. Multilevel analyses revealed that victims of OHS were more likely to report OHS perpetration. In addition, victims of OHS were more likely to report OHS perpetration when they reported higher levels of MD than those with lower levels of MD. Finally, victims of OHS were less likely to report OHS perpetration when they reported higher levels of empathy than those with lower levels of empathy. The findings extend the cycle of violence hypothesis to OHS and highlight the need to address MD and empathy in hate speech prevention. Implications for future research will be discussed.