TY - JOUR A1 - Kajić, Ivana A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Stewart, Terrence C. A1 - Thagard, Paul T1 - The semantic pointer theory of emotion BT - Integrating physiology, appraisal, and construction JF - Cognitive Systems Research N2 - 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. KW - Gefühlstheorie KW - Beurteilung KW - Affective Computing KW - Neurowissenschaften Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2019.04.007 SN - 1389-0417 VL - 58 SP - 35 EP - 53 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Korntheuer, Annette A1 - Thomas, Stefan T1 - Participation of refugee youth in Germany’s VET system BT - Real-world labs as opportunities for co-constructive knowledge production and innovative practice transformation T2 - Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 N2 - 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. KW - Migration KW - Bildungsbarriere KW - Berufsausbildung KW - Soziale Integration KW - Flüchtling Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-80262-522-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042A002 SN - 1479-3679 SP - 25 EP - 34 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited CY - Bingley ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Levenson, Lance A1 - Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike A1 - Kessl, Fabian A1 - Resnik, Julia T1 - German teachers' pilgrimage to an Israeli Holocaust Memorial BT - Emotions, encounters, and contested visions JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly N2 - 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. KW - Gefühl KW - Judenvernichtung KW - Bildung KW - Gedenkstätte KW - Wallfahrt KW - Lehrerfortbildung Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12508 SN - 0161-7761 SN - 1548-1492 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liebel, Manfred T1 - Economic and Labour Rights BT - A Blind Spot in the Discourse on Children’s Rights JF - Nordic Journal of Human Rights N2 - 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. KW - Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht KW - Arbeitsrecht KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2021.2001162 SN - 1891-814X VL - 39 IS - 2 SP - 163 EP - 179 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lin, Luyuan A1 - Czarnuch, Stephen A1 - Malhotra, Aarti A1 - Yu, Lifei A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Hoey, Jesse T1 - Affectively Aligned Cognitive Assistance Using Bayesian Affect Control Theory T2 - Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities N2 - 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. KW - Dichte KW - Markov-Entscheidungsprozess KW - Alzheimerkrankheit Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-319-13105-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_41 SN - 1611-3349 SP - 279 EP - 287 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindner, Nadja A1 - Moeller, Korbinian A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Hasselhorn, Marcus A1 - Lonnemann, Jan T1 - Children’s use of egocentric reference frames in spatial language is related to their numerical magnitude understanding JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - 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. KW - Räumliches Wissen KW - Vorschulkind KW - Zahlenverständnis KW - Zahlengerade Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.943191 SN - 1664-1078 PB - Frontiers Media S.A. CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lohse, Karoline A1 - Hildebrandt, Andrea A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly N2 - 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. KW - Parent-child interaction therapy KW - Hypothese KW - Kinderfrage KW - Sustained shared thinking Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.09.014 SN - 0885-2006 VL - 58 SP - 254 EP - 263 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorenz, Jan A1 - Neumann, Martin A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Individual attitude change and societal dynamics: Computational experiments with psychological theories JF - Psychological Review N2 - 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. KW - Attitudes KW - Social Influence KW - Theoretical Integration KW - Computational Model KW - Einstellungsforschung KW - Einfluss Y1 - 2021 UR - https://psyarxiv.com/ebfvr/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000291 SN - 1939-1471 VL - 128 IS - 4 SP - 623 EP - 642 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luthardt, Jasmin A1 - Schröder, Tobias A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Bormann, Inka T1 - “And then we’ll just check if it suits us” : cognitive-affective maps of social innovation in early childhood education JF - Frontiers in Education N2 - 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. KW - Sozialinnovation KW - Kartierung KW - Kleinkindpädagogik KW - Bildungspolitik KW - Lehrerfortbildung KW - Triangulierung Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00033 SN - 2504-284X VL - 5 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Urban, Mathias A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Children’s perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation JF - International Journal of Early Years Education N2 - 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. KW - Partizipation KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2023.2299267 SN - 0966-9760 SN - 1469-8463 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 246 EP - 260 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London ER -