@article{HildebrandtGlauerKachel, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro and Kachel, Gregor}, title = {Coming from a world without objects}, series = {Mind \& Language}, volume = {37}, journal = {Mind \& Language}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd}, address = {Oxford, UK}, doi = {10.1111/mila.12313}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-25000}, pages = {159 -- 176}, abstract = {While research on object individuation assumes that even very young children are able to perceive objects as particulars, we argue that the results of relevant studies can be explained in terms of feature discrimination. We propose that children start out navigating the world with a feature-based ontology and only later become able to individuate objects spatiotemporally. Furthermore, object individuation is a cognitively demanding achievement resting on a uniquely human form of enculturation, namely the acquisition of deictic demonstratives. We conclude by outlining empirical expectations for operationalizations of our proposal.}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtGlauerMoore, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Glauer, Ramiro and Moore, Richard}, title = {Rethinking how children individuate objects}, series = {Synthese}, volume = {202}, journal = {Synthese}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0039-7857}, doi = {10.1007/s11229-023-04300-5}, pages = {1 -- 25}, abstract = {The current understanding of cognitive development rests on the premise that infants can individuate objects early on. However, the so-called object-first account faces severe difficulties explaining extant empirical findings in object individuation tasks while alternative, more parsimonious explanations are available. In this paper, we assume that children start as feature-thinkers without being able to individuate objects and show how this ability can be learned by thinkers who do not already implicitly possess the notion of an object. Based on Tugendhat's ideas on the relation between singular terms and object reference, we argue that spatial indexicals comprise the fundamental means of object individuation and describe how feature thinkers might acquire the complex substitutional system of spatial indexicals. In closing, two accounts of object cognition that do not rely on symbolic capacities, namely Pylyshyn's FINST indexes and Burge's perceptual objectivity, are critically discussed.}, subject = {Kind}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtLonnemannGlauer, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Lonnemann, Jan and Glauer, Ramiro}, title = {Why Not Just Features? Reconsidering Infants' Behavior in Individuation Tasks}, series = {Frontiers in Psychology}, volume = {11}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, number = {Okt.}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564807}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-24896}, pages = {9}, abstract = {It counts as empirically proven that infants can individuate objects. Object individuation is assumed to be fundamental in the development of infants' ontology within the object-first account. It crucially relies on an object-file (OF) system, representing both spatiotemporal ("where") and categorical ("what") information about objects as solid, cohesive bodies moving continuously in space and time. However, infants' performance in tasks requiring them to use featural information to detect individuation violations appears to be at odds with the object-first account. In such cases, infants do not appear to be able to develop correct expectations about the numerosity of objects. Recently, proponents of the object-first account proposed that these individuation failures result from integration errors between the OF system and an additional physical reasoning system. We are going to argue that the predictions of a feature-based physical-reasoning (PR) system are sufficient for explaining infants' behavior. The striking predictive power of the PR system calls into question the relevance of the OF system and, thereby, challenges the assumption that infants can individuate objects early on.}, subject = {Individuation}, language = {en} } @article{HildebrandtMusholt, author = {Hildebrandt, Frauke and Musholt, Kristina}, title = {Teaching rationality : sustained shared thinking as a means for learning to navigate the space of reasons}, series = {Journal of Philosophy of Education}, volume = {54}, journal = {Journal of Philosophy of Education}, number = {3}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Malden, Mass.}, issn = {1467-9752}, doi = {10.1111/1467-9752.12407}, pages = {582 -- 599}, abstract = {Human thought can be characterised as being situated in the 'space of reasons'. That is to say that human thought is guided by the norms of theoretical and practical rationality which, in turn, enable autonomous thinking. But how do children learn to navigate the space of reasons? Building on the work of Tugendhat and Bakhurst, among others, we argue, first, that this process involves the acquisition of propositional thought and that it is an essentially social one in which both children and adults take an active role. Second, and more specifically, by drawing on Brandom's theory of meaning, we provide a philosophical analysis of empirical findings with respect to the efficacy of 'Sustained Shared Thinking' (SST) in early educational settings. We argue that the efficacy of SST is based on its emphasising, modelling and practising those elements of communication that are essential for gaining proficiency in 'playing the game of giving and asking for reasons', namely drawing inferences between propositions and concepts and providing justifications for one's assertions. This is achieved by making explicit the inferential relationships between concepts and propositions and by the use of modal and doxastic markers that function as an invitation to a joint search for reasons.}, subject = {Denken}, language = {en} } @article{HoeyMacKinnonSchroeder, author = {Hoey, Jesse and MacKinnon, Neil J. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Denotative and connotative management of uncertainty}, series = {Judgment and Decision Making}, volume = {16}, journal = {Judgment and Decision Making}, number = {2}, publisher = {Society for Judgment and Decision Making}, issn = {1930-2975}, doi = {10.1017/S1930297500008652}, pages = {505 -- 550}, abstract = {The interplay between intuitive and deliberative processing is known to be important for human decision making. As independent modes, intuitive processes can take on many forms from associative to constructive, while deliberative processes often rely on some notion of decision theoretic rationality or pattern matching. Dual process models attempt to unify these two modes based on parallel constraint networks or on socially or emotionally oriented adjustments to utility functions. This paper presents a new kind of dual process model that unifies decision theoretic deliberative reasoning with intuitive reasoning based on shared cultural affective meanings in a single Bayesian sequential model. Agents constructed according to this unified model are motivated by a combination of affective alignment (intuitive) and decision theoretic reasoning (deliberative), trading the two off as a function of the uncertainty or unpredictability of the situation. The model also provides a theoretical bridge between decision-making research and sociological symbolic interactionism. Starting with a high-level view of existing models, we advance Bayesian Affect Control Theory (BayesACT) as a promising new type of dual process model that explicitly and optimally (in the Bayesian sense) trades off motivation, action, beliefs and utility. We demonstrate a key component of the model as being sufficient to account for some aspects of classic cognitive biases about fairness and dissonance, and outline how this new theory relates to parallel constraint satisfaction models.}, subject = {Zwei-Prozess-Modell}, language = {en} } @techreport{HoeyNagappanRogersetal., author = {Hoey, Jesse and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Rogers, Kimberly B. and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Dametto, Diego and De Zoysa, Nalin and Iyer, Rahul and Morgan, Jonathan H. and Rishi, Deepak and Sirianni, Antonio D. and Yun, Seonghu and Zhao, Jun and Z{\"o}ller, Nikolas}, title = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups}, doi = {10.31235/osf.io/4hukx}, pages = {1 -- 36}, abstract = {Theoretical and Empirical Modeling of Identity and Sentiments in Collaborative Groups (THEMIS.COG) was an interdisciplinary research collaboration of computer scientists and social scientists from the University of Waterloo (Canada), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Dartmouth College (USA). This white paper summarizes the results of our research at the end of the grant term. Funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform's Digging Into Data initiative, the project aimed at theoretical and empirical modeling of identity and sentiments in collaborative groups. Understanding the social forces behind self-organized collaboration is important because technological and social innovations are increasingly generated through informal, distributed processes of collaboration, rather than in formal organizational hierarchies or through market forces. Our work used a data-driven approach to explore the social psychological mechanisms that motivate such collaborations and determine their success or failure. We focused on the example of GitHub, the world's current largest digital platform for open, collaborative software development. In contrast to most, purely inductive contemporary approaches leveraging computational techniques for social science, THEMIS.COG followed a deductive, theory-driven approach. We capitalized on affect control theory, a mathematically formalized theory of symbolic interaction originated by sociologist David R. Heise and further advanced in previous work by some of the THEMIS.COG collaborators, among others. Affect control theory states that people control their social behaviours by intuitively attempting to verify culturally shared feelings about identities, social roles, and behaviour settings. From this principle, implemented in computational simulation models, precise predictions about group dynamics can be derived. It was the goal of THEMIS.COG to adapt and apply this approach to study the GitHub collaboration ecosystem through a symbolic interactionist lens. The project contributed substantially to the novel endeavor of theory development in social science based on large amounts of naturally occurring digital data.}, subject = {Computational social science}, language = {en} } @article{HoeySchroeder, author = {Hoey, Jesse and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Disruption of Social Orders in Societal Transitions as Affective Control of Uncertainty}, series = {American behavioral scientist}, volume = {67}, journal = {American behavioral scientist}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {Thousand Oaks}, issn = {1552-3381}, doi = {10.1177/00027642211066055}, pages = {311 -- 331}, abstract = {Bayesian affect control theory is a model of affect-driven social interaction underconditions of uncertainty. In this paper, we investigate how the operationalization of uncertainty in the model can be related to the disruption of social orders—societal pressures to adapt to ongoing environmental and technological change. First, we study the theoretical tradeoffs between three kinds of uncertainty as groups navigate external problems: validity (the predictability of the environment, including of other agents), coherence (the predictability of interpersonal affective dynamics), and dependence (the predictability of affective meanings). Second, we discuss how these uncertainty tradeoffs are related to contemporary political conflict and polarization in the context of societal transitions. To illustrate the potential of our model to analyze the socio-emotional consequences of uncertainty, we present a simulation of diverging individual affective meanings of occupational identities under uncertainty in a climate change mitigation scenario based on events in Germany. Finally, we sketch a possible research agenda to substantiate the novel, but yet mostly conjectural, ideas put forward in this paper.}, 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} } @inproceedings{ImaiSajiGrosseetal., author = {Imai, Mutsumi and Saji, Noburo and Große, Gerlind and Schulze, Cornelia and Asano, Michiko and Saalbach, Henrik}, title = {General mechanisms of color lexicon acquisition : insights from comparison of German and Japanese speaking children}, series = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, organization = {Cognitive Science Society}, pages = {3315 -- 3320}, abstract = {This research investigated how German-speaking children learn color words, both in terms of centroid mappings and boundary delineation, and how they construct the color lexicon as a connected system. The results were compared to those of Japanese children to draw insights on general mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of words in the color lexicon. For both languages, input frequency and category size contributed to the ease of learning. In contrast, in both language groups, naming (in)consistency in adults predicted the adult-like boundary delineation.}, subject = {Kindersprache}, 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} } @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} } @incollection{KorntheuerThomas, author = {Korntheuer, Annette and Thomas, Stefan}, title = {Participation of refugee youth in Germany's VET system}, series = {Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021}, booktitle = {Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021}, publisher = {Emerald Publishing Limited}, address = {Bingley}, isbn = {978-1-80262-522-6}, issn = {1479-3679}, doi = {10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A002}, publisher = {Fachhochschule Potsdam}, pages = {25 -- 34}, abstract = {Germany has become the most important destination country for young refugees in Europe (Destatis, 2021). Vocational education and training can make an important contribution to overcome educational barriers and gain participation in society (Will \& Hohmut, 2020). Since 2015, rural regions have faced new challenges in establishing effective support systems for young apprentices with forced migration experience (Ohliger et al., 2017). The participatory LaeneAs research project seeks to identify educational barriers and to promote successful educational pathways for young refugees in vocational training. In four distinct rural areas in Germany, stakeholders in formal, non-formal, and informal learning environments and young refugees will be brought together in real-world laboratories. The authors aim to open space for a co-constructive knowledge production process between scientific and political stakeholders, educational practitioners, and refugee youth. Real-world laboratories are a socio-spatial methodology that combines research and a sustainable capacity building process. The lifeworld expertise will be used for a contextual condition analysis of structural, societal, and individual barriers to education as well as for practice transfer. Building on the discussion of the current state of research and the identification of significant gaps in the practice and research landscape, this essay will focus on the critical discussion of the methodological implementation of the study.}, subject = {Migration}, language = {en} } @article{LevensonLorenzSinaiKessletal., author = {Levenson, Lance and Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike and Kessl, Fabian and Resnik, Julia}, title = {German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial}, series = {Anthropology and Education Quarterly}, journal = {Anthropology and Education Quarterly}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0161-7761}, doi = {10.1111/aeq.12508}, pages = {1 -- 19}, abstract = {Drawing on anthropological conceptions of pilgrimage, our ethnography of professional development at an Israeli Holocaust Memorial follows German teachers on journeys to Israel. Seeking transformative and transferable experiences to combat anti-Semitism in schools, teachers experienced the voyage as a secular pilgrimage rooted in Christian traditions of guilt, confession, and absolution. As teachers' emotional encounters in Israel simultaneously forged communitas and challenged official historical-pedagogical visions, their practices abroad elucidate prevalent Holocaust education discourses in contemporary Germany.}, subject = {Gef{\"u}hl}, language = {en} } @article{Liebel, author = {Liebel, Manfred}, title = {Economic and Labour Rights}, series = {Nordic Journal of Human Rights}, volume = {39}, journal = {Nordic Journal of Human Rights}, number = {2}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1891-814X}, doi = {10.1080/18918131.2021.2001162}, pages = {163 -- 179}, abstract = {This author discusses the question whether children have economic and labour rights, and if so, what that means in practice. With regard to international law, he clarifies the relationship between different areas of law and the relationship between various legal concepts that are relevant to the protection of children's economic and labour rights. More specifically, he explores the relationship between human rights in general and children's rights in particular, as well as the relationship between economic and social rights, human and labour rights, and legal and moral rights. Next, he focuses on working children and their associations and which economic and labour rights they consider necessary. Furthermore, he discusses how these rights are, or should be, reflected in international law and in national legislation. Finally, the key obstacles in protecting children's economic and labour rights in international law are discussed, i.e. what practical difficulties are to be overcome on the ground in order to realise and bring to life the economic and labour rights of children.}, subject = {Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LinCzarnuchMalhotraetal., author = {Lin, Luyuan and Czarnuch, Stephen and Malhotra, Aarti and Yu, Lifei and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hoey, Jesse}, title = {Affectively Aligned Cognitive Assistance Using Bayesian Affect Control Theory}, series = {Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities}, booktitle = {Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-13105-4}, issn = {1611-3349}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_41}, pages = {279 -- 287}, abstract = {This paper describes a novel emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant to engage and help older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to complete activities of daily living (ADL) more independently. Our new system combines two research streams. First, the development of cognitive assistants with artificially intelligent controllers using partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Second, a model of the dynamics of emotion and identity called Affect Control Theory that arises from the sociological literature on culturally shared sentiments. We present background material on both of these research streams, and then demonstrate a prototype assistive technology that combines the two. We discuss the affective reasoning, the probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning, the computer-vision based activity monitoring, the embodied prompting, and we show results in proof-of-concept tests.}, subject = {Dichte }, language = {en} } @article{LindnerMoellerHildebrandtetal., author = {Lindner, Nadja and Moeller, Korbinian and Hildebrandt, Frauke and Hasselhorn, Marcus and Lonnemann, Jan}, title = {Children's use of egocentric reference frames in spatial language is related to their numerical magnitude understanding}, series = {Frontiers in Psychology}, journal = {Frontiers in Psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2022.943191}, pages = {13}, abstract = {Numerical magnitude information is assumed to be spatially represented in the form of a mental number line defined with respect to a body-centred, egocentric frame of reference. In this context, spatial language skills such as mastery of verbal descriptions of spatial position (e.g., in front of, behind, to the right/left) have been proposed to be relevant for grasping spatial relations between numerical magnitudes on the mental number line. We examined 4- to 5-year-old's spatial language skills in tasks that allow responses in egocentric and allocentric frames of reference, as well as their relative understanding of numerical magnitude (assessed by a number word comparison task). In addition, we evaluated influences of children's absolute understanding of numerical magnitude assessed by their number word comprehension (montring different numbers using their fingers) and of their knowledge on numerical sequences (determining predecessors and successors as well as identifying missing dice patterns of a series). Results indicated that when considering responses that corresponded to the egocentric perspective, children's spatial language was associated significantly with their relative numerical magnitude understanding, even after controlling for covariates, such as children's SES, mental rotation skills, and also absolute magnitude understanding or knowledge on numerical sequences. This suggests that the use of egocentric reference frames in spatial language may facilitate spatial representation of numbers along a mental number line and thus seem important for preschoolers' relative understanding of numerical magnitude.}, subject = {R{\"a}umliches Wissen}, language = {en} } @article{LohseHildebrandtHildebrandt, author = {Lohse, Karoline and Hildebrandt, Andrea and Hildebrandt, Frauke}, title = {Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations}, series = {Early Childhood Research Quarterly}, volume = {58}, journal = {Early Childhood Research Quarterly}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0885-2006}, doi = {10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.09.014}, pages = {254 -- 263}, abstract = {Adult-child interactions can support children's development and are established as predictors of program quality in early childhood settings. However, the linguistic components that constitute positive interactions have not yet been studied in detail. This study investigates the effects of hypotheses proposed by adults on children's responses in a dyadic picture-book viewing situation. In 2 experiments, adults' use of hypotheses (e.g., "Maybe this is a dwarf's door") was tested against the use of instructive statements ("This is a dwarf's door") and in combination with open questions ("What do you think, why is the door so small?"). In Experiment 1, hypotheses differed from instructions only by the modal marker "maybe". Children's responses to hypotheses were longer and contained more self-generated explanations as compared to responses to instructions. The use of hypotheses also seemed to encourage children to attach more importance to their own explanations. In Experiment 2, combining hypotheses with open-ended why questions elicited longer responses but no more self-generated explanations in children than open-ended questions alone. Results indicate that subtle differences in adults' utterances can directly influence children's reasoning and children's contributions to dialogues.}, subject = {Parent-child interaction therapy}, language = {en} } @article{LorenzNeumannSchroeder, author = {Lorenz, Jan and Neumann, Martin and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias}, title = {Individual attitude change and societal dynamics: Computational experiments with psychological theories}, series = {Psychological Review}, volume = {128}, journal = {Psychological Review}, number = {4}, publisher = {American Psychological Association}, address = {Washington}, issn = {1939-1471}, doi = {10.1037/rev0000291}, pages = {623 -- 642}, abstract = {We present an agent-based model for studying the societal implications of attitude change theories. Various psychological theories of persuasive communication at the individual level are implemented as simulation experiments. The model allows us to investigate the effects of contagion and assimilation, motivated cognition, polarity, source credibility, and idiosyncratic attitude formation. Simulations show that different theories produce different characteristic macrolevel patterns. Contagion and assimilation are central mechanisms for generating consensus, however, contagion generates a radicalized consensus. Motivated cognition causes societal polarization or the fragmentation of attitudes. Polarity and source credibility have comparatively little effect on the societal distribution of attitudes. We discuss how the simulations provide a bridge between microlevel psychological theories and the aggregated macrolevel studied by sociology. This approach enables new types of evidence for evaluating psychological theory to complement experimental approaches, thus answering calls to enhance the role of coherent and formalized theory in psychological science.}, subject = {Einstellungsforschung}, language = {en} } @article{LuthardtSchroederHildebrandtetal., author = {Luthardt, Jasmin and Schr{\"o}der, Tobias and Hildebrandt, Frauke and Bormann, Inka}, title = {"And then we'll just check if it suits us" : cognitive-affective maps of social innovation in early childhood education}, series = {Frontiers in Education}, volume = {5}, journal = {Frontiers in Education}, publisher = {Frontiers Media}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {2504-284X}, doi = {10.3389/feduc.2020.00033}, pages = {19}, abstract = {The idea that a simple execution of an innovation invented by actors other than those who are expected to apply it is not likely to take place is a truism. We assume, however, in this paper the idea of a discursive production of knowledge on the application of an innovation across different levels of the education system. We aim to shed light on an innovation's 'journey' from educational policy over training providers to teams of professionals in early childhood education and care (ECEC). By investigating knowledge and emotions associated with the introduction of an intended innovation using the example of "stimulation interactions" in day care-centers, the paper contributes to research on the transfer of innovations in education. To better understand challenges occurring during the transfer of innovations, we triangulate methods from discourse theory (coding techniques based on GTM) and cognitive science, namely cognitive-affective mapping (according to the scholarly conventions). The data corpus includes educational plans (N = 2), in-service training programs (N = 123) and group discussions of pedagogical teams (N = 6) who participated in an in-service training on the subject, stimulating interaction. Findings underline that similar messages from the inventors on the educational policy level are received and processed heterogeneously by the teams of pedagogues as a result of their preexisting views, routine practices and experiences with intended innovations through in-service trainings. Besides, a diffuse mixture of competing and contradictory information is communicated to the professionals and, hence, collides with the in-service training providers' and educational policy actors' expectations on the processing of the intended innovation. Specific knowledge elements and their valences are diametrically opposed to each other. Dissonances like these are considered as obstacles to social innovation. The obstacles are caused by the lack of a 'common language' beyond all levels. Hence, policy-makers and in-service-training providers should anticipate the supportive as well as competing knowledge-emotional complexes of professionals and take these into account when communicating an intended innovation.}, subject = {Sozialinnovation}, language = {en} } @article{MachaUrbanLonnemannetal., author = {Macha, Katrin and Urban, Mathias and Lonnemann, Jan and Wronski, Caroline and Hildebrandt, Frauke}, title = {Children's perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation}, series = {International Journal of Early Years Education}, volume = {32}, journal = {International Journal of Early Years Education}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {0966-9760}, doi = {10.1080/09669760.2023.2299267}, pages = {246 -- 260}, abstract = {In this paper, we want to present research on children's perspectives in the context of participation. We emphasize that the survey of children's perspectives is a form of participation. We understand participation based on children's rights. We refer to the Lundy model ([2007]. "'Voice' Is Not Enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child." British Educational Research Journal 33 (6): 927-942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920701657033), which emphasizes that it is not enough to simply ask children to speak their minds. Rather, they also need the experience that their views have an influence. In the discourse on quality in ECEC, children's perspectives became only recently the focus of extended research. In evaluation instruments, at least in Germany, the inclusion of children's perspectives is rare. In the study presented here, these two aspects are brought together using the example of the evaluation instrument QuaSi. We describe how children's perspectives are taken into account in the evaluation and feedback process in contrast to everyday life in ECEC centres. It becomes clear that the collection of children's perspectives and their feedback to the pedagogues in the centre does not automatically lead to their views influencing the quality of the centre.}, subject = {Partizipation}, language = {en} }