@article{O’ConnellLucić, author = {O'Connell, Courtney and Lucić, Luka}, title = {An Informal Education Intervention in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic}, number = {Online first}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2522-5804}, doi = {10.1007/s42087-020-00161-3}, pages = {1 -- 16}, abstract = {The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting damage is often portrayed in staggering numbers and statistics. This article offers, by contrast, a personal and qualitative account of employees, volunteers, and young residents at a refugee home in Berlin, Germany. Through the story of a boy who has spent the past 4 years in several of Berlin's 84 remaining refugee accommodations, we examine the inequalities that already existed in Germany and how the pandemic has exacerbated them. To provide ample context, we critically assess the so-called Welcome Classes that children and teens have been attending since their arrival to the country in or around 2015 and argue that the segregation experienced at school mirrors the isolation from the host society that refugees and people seeking asylum are subjected to residentially. We then present an emergency response to school closures: A digital homework mentorship program designed to mitigate the heightened barriers to social interaction and access to education brought about by the pandemic. We explore the sociocultural theory underpinning the program, describe its methods, and offer a qualitative evaluation of the results. Finally, we discuss how the informal education intervention helps fill gaps in the system, offering an approach that can be used going forward to promote learning, social-emotional development, and inclusion of young people with migration and refugee backgrounds.}, subject = {Jugend}, language = {en} } @article{ThomasSchellerSchroeder, author = {Thomas, Stefan and Scheller, David and Schr{\"o}der, Susan}, title = {Co-creation in citizen social science}, series = {Humanities and Social Sciences Communications}, journal = {Humanities and Social Sciences Communications}, number = {8}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {London}, issn = {2662-9992}, doi = {10.1057/s41599-021-00902-x}, pages = {11}, abstract = {This paper addresses the emerging methodological debate about citizen social science from the perspective of participatory research methods. The paper introduces the research forum as a horizontal and safe communicative space moderated by academic researchers that enables co-researcher participation across all phases of co-creational research projects. It is argued that in co-creational citizen social science, such a communicative space requires conceptualisation in order for it to foster citizens' engagement in the knowledge production that deals with their specific social lifeworlds. In the research forum, the potential that the social sciences bring to citizen science—methodological reflection and the theoretical interpretation and contextualisation of data—can flourish in a collaborative process. Based on the expertise in co-created research in multigenerational co-housing projects, the paper reflects on practical experiences with the research forum in terms of four central dimensions: (1) opening up spaces for social encounters; (2) establishing communicative practice; (3) initiating a process of social self-understanding; (4) engaging in (counter-)public discourses. Finally, the paper closes with a summary of potential and challenges that the research forum provides as a methodological foundation for co-creation in citizen social science projects.}, language = {en} } @incollection{SchmidtWenzelRubel, author = {Schmidt-Wenzel, Alexandra and Rubel, Katrin}, title = {Inquiry-Based Learning in Social Work}, series = {Inquiry-Based Learning : Undergraduate Research}, booktitle = {Inquiry-Based Learning : Undergraduate Research}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-14223-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-14223-0_13}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26335}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {139 -- 147}, abstract = {Research-led teaching is designed to give students the opportunity to engage with their learning process and develop the skills needed to build their professional identity through active participation in the scientific cognitive process. Here in particular, social workers need research-oriented behavior, hermeneutic competencies and reflexivity in order to master the imminent requirements of case comprehension and case processing in a professional way.}, subject = {Ausbildung}, language = {en} } @article{MichelWronskiPauenetal., author = {Michel, Christine and Wronski, Caroline and Pauen, Sabina and Daum, Moritz M. and Hoehl, Stefanie}, title = {Infants' object processing is guided specifically by social cues}, series = {Neuropsychologia}, volume = {126}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0028-3932}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.022}, pages = {54 -- 61}, abstract = {Previous studies showed that the movements of another person's eyes and head guides infants' attention and promotes social learning by leading to enhanced encoding of cued objects. However, it is an open question whether social features like eyes are required or if the lateral movement of any arbitrary stimulus can elicit similar effects. The current experiments investigate the effects of the movement of a nonsocial cue and a perceptually similar social cue on object processing in 4-month-olds using event-related potentials (ERPs). Infants were presented with one of two central cues, either a box with a checkerboard pattern or a box with eye-like features on the front, which turned to one side. The cue thereby either turned toward a novel object or turned away from it. Afterwards, the object was presented again and ERPs in response to these previously cued or uncued objects were compared. When the nonsocial box served as the cue, no difference in neural processing of previously cued and uncued objects was found. In contrast, when the box with eyes served as the cue, we found an enhanced positive slow wave (PSW) for uncued as compared to cued objects. While the turning of the box with eyes promoted the encoding of cued objects, uncued objects needed enhanced activity for processing when presented for a second time. Results suggest that not every dynamic cue can influence infants' object processing but that the presence of a basic social characteristic like isolated schematic eyes is sufficient to enhance social learning processes in early infancy. This hints on a specific sensitivity of the infant brain to social information which helps infants to focus on relevant information in the environment during social learning.}, subject = {S{\"a}ugling}, language = {en} } @incollection{McRobert, author = {McRobert, Korinna}, title = {Young survivors of sexual abuse as 'children out of place'}, series = {Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth}, booktitle = {Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth}, edition = {1st Edition}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-72916-5}, doi = {10.4324/9780429466588-10}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {143 -- 157}, abstract = {This chapter looks at children 'out of place' as a category, focusing on the example of the sexually abused and thus sexually exposed child as experiencing an 'out of place' childhood. It focuses on the child who has been sexually abused and exploited, in contexts involving no compensation - monetary or otherwise. A code for childhood sexuality also developed in the West, with the focus on the innocence and malleability of young people. The projection onto children by adults, in terms of what they should be, can thus eventually be damaging. Children are presented as incapable of being responsible subjects with their own agency in the context of sexuality. Children's agency in the context of their sexuality is highly restricted through laws dictating minimum ages of sexual activity and consent, as well as social expectations of a child as a non-sexual and innocent being.}, subject = {Kind}, language = {en} } @article{HoeySchroederMorganetal., author = {Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Morgan, Jonathan Howard and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Rishi, Deepak and Nagappan, Meiyappan}, title = {Artificial Intelligence and Social Simulation}, series = {Small Group Research}, volume = {49}, journal = {Small Group Research}, number = {6}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, address = {London}, issn = {1552-8278}, doi = {10.1177/1046496418802362}, pages = {647 -- 683}, abstract = {Recent advances in artificial intelligence and computer science can be used by social scientists in their study of groups and teams. Here, we explain how developments in machine learning and simulations with artificially intelligent agents can help group and team scholars to overcome two major problems they face when studying group dynamics. First, because empirical research on groups relies on manual coding, it is hard to study groups in large numbers (the scaling problem). Second, conventional statistical methods in behavioral science often fail to capture the nonlinear interaction dynamics occurring in small groups (the dynamics problem). Machine learning helps to address the scaling problem, as massive computing power can be harnessed to multiply manual codings of group interactions. Computer simulations with artificially intelligent agents help to address the dynamics problem by implementing social psychological theory in data-generating algorithms that allow for sophisticated statements and tests of theory. We describe an ongoing research project aimed at computational analysis of virtual software development teams.}, subject = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz}, language = {en} } @article{SchellerThoern, author = {Scheller, David and Th{\"o}rn, H{\aa}kan}, title = {Governing 'Sustainable Urban Development' Through Self-Build Groups and Co-Housing}, series = {International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, volume = {42}, journal = {International Journal of Urban and Regional Research}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {1468-2427}, doi = {10.1111/1468-2427.12652}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26478}, pages = {914 -- 933}, abstract = {This article critically examines the governing of 'sustainable urban development' through self-build cohousing groups in Gothenburg and Hamburg. The two case cities have been selected because both are currently involved in major urban restructuring, and have launched programmes to support self-build groups and cohousing as part of their emphasis on promoting urban sustainable development through this process. Departing from a theoretical discussion on advanced liberal urban governance, focusing in particular on the contemporary discourse on sustainable urban development, we examine the interaction between political institutions, civil society and private actors in the construction of cohousing as a perceived novel and alternative form of housing that may contribute to fulfilling certain sustainability goals. Questions centre on the socio-political contextualization of cohousing; concepts of sustainability; strategies of, and relations between, different actors in promoting cohousing; gentrification and segregation; and inclusion and exclusion. In conclusion we argue that, while self-build groups can provide pockets of cohousing as an alternative to dominant forms of housing, the economic and political logics of advanced liberal urban development make even such a modest target difficult, particularly when it comes to making such housing affordable.}, subject = {Stadtforschung}, language = {en} } @article{KachelMooreTomasello, author = {Kachel, Gregor and Moore, Richard and Tomasello, Michael}, title = {Two-year-olds use adults' but not peers' points}, series = {Developmental Science}, volume = {21}, journal = {Developmental Science}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {1467-7687}, doi = {10.1111/desc.12660}, abstract = {In the current study, 24- to 27-month-old children (N = 37) used pointing gestures in a cooperative object choice task with either peer or adult partners. When indicating the location of a hidden toy, children pointed equally accurately for adult and peer partners but more often for adult partners. When choosing from one of three hiding places, children used adults' pointing to find a hidden toy significantly more often than they used peers'. In interaction with peers, children's choice behavior was at chance level. These results suggest that toddlers ascribe informative value to adults' but not peers' pointing gestures, and highlight the role of children's social expectations in their communicative development.}, subject = {Kleinkind}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SzczepanskaPriebeSchroeder, author = {Szczepanska, Timo and Priebe, Max and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Teaching the Complexity of Urban Systems with Participatory Social Simulation}, series = {Advances in Social Simulation}, booktitle = {Advances in Social Simulation}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-34127-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_43}, pages = {427 -- 439}, abstract = {We describe how we use social simulation as a core method in a new master's program designed to teach future leaders of urban change to deal with the complexity inherent in current societal transformations. We start by depicting the challenges with regard to cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and overcoming value-based, rigid thinking styles that inevitably arise in the process of solving ecological, technological, or social problems in cities new and old. Next, we describe a course based on urban modeling and participatory approaches, designed to meet those challenges. We reflect on our first experience with this approach and discuss future developments and research needs.}, subject = {Verst{\"a}dterung}, language = {en} } @article{KajićSchroederStewartetal., author = {Kajić, Ivana and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Stewart, Terrence C. and Thagard, Paul}, title = {The semantic pointer theory of emotion}, series = {Cognitive Systems Research}, volume = {58}, journal = {Cognitive Systems Research}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1389-0417}, doi = {10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.04.007}, pages = {35 -- 53}, abstract = {Emotion theory needs to explain the relationship of language and emotions, and the embodiment of emotions, by specifying the computational mechanisms underlying emotion generation in the brain. We used Chris Eliasmith's Semantic Pointer Architecture to develop POEM, a computational model that explains numerous important phenomena concerning emotions, including how some stimuli generate immediate emotional reactions, how some emotional reactions depend on cognitive evaluations, how bodily states influence the generation of emotions, how some emotions depend on interactions between physiological inputs and cognitive appraisals, and how some emotional reactions concern syntactically complex representations. We contrast our theory with current alternatives, and discuss some possible applications to individual and social emotions.}, subject = {Gef{\"u}hlstheorie}, language = {en} }