TY - JOUR A1 - Thomas, Stefan A1 - Albrecht, Pauline A1 - Korntheuer, Annette A1 - Bucher, Judith T1 - Researching educational barriers in participatory real-world labs BT - vocational training of refugees in rural counties in Germany JF - Frontiers in Education N2 - Introduction: As a result of the large-scale arrivals of refugees and migrants, Germany is facing the challenge of providing inclusive education pathways not at least for a successful integration into the labor market. In our research project laeneAs (Ländliche Bildugnsumwelten junger Geflüchteter in der beruflichen Ausbildung/The Rural Educational Environments of Young Refugees in Vocational Training), we focus on educational barriers and good practices within the vocational education and training system (VET) for refugees in rural counties. In particular, racism and discrimination are significant barriers to refugee participation in society and education. Our contribution addresses the following research question: How is educational inclusion discussed and defined in and through real-world labs among stakeholders in four rural districts: social workers, educators, policymakers, administration, and young refugees? Methods: We initiated real-world labs as a space for collaborative research, reflection, and development to promote inclusive pathways for young refugees in vocational education and training in four research sites. We used futures labs as a method to identify key challenges and develop action plans as an activating method with stakeholders and refugee trainees. Our data consisted of audio recordings of group discussions in the real-world future labs, which were analyzed using deductive content analysis. Results: The analysis identified the following areas as important barriers to education and for practice transformation: (1) infrastructural and cultural barriers; (2) day-to-day problems in vocational schools and companies (3) restrictive immigration policies and regulations. Discussion: Educational barriers are imbedded in a contradictory immigration regime with reciprocal effects so that refugee trainees have difficulties in completing their education and further their social inclusion. On the other side of this contradictory immigration regime, social work and social networks provide fundamental support in obtaining a vocational qualification. KW - Berufsausbildung KW - Jugendlicher Flüchtling KW - Bildungsbarriere KW - Rassismus KW - Reallabor KW - Ländlicher Raum Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1250886 SN - 2504-284X VL - 9 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - Frontiers Media S.A. CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Urban, Mathias T1 - Making it explicit BT - Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care JF - British educational research journal N2 - To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion. Several studies have described profound methodologies to obtain children's perspectives by observing, interviewing and conducting group discussions. This article introduces research that combines exploring children's perspectives with sustained shared thinking (SST). Focussing on the dialogue following the rules of SST, we conducted and analysed group discussions with children about their lives within a children's centre in Berlin, Germany. The children were asked to think about aspects of quality. They expressed their ideas, wishes, likes and dislikes within the centre explicitly and profoundly. Following the lead of these children, a dialogue developed in which children and researchers contributed equally and led the way. This showed how well children could act out their agency and were capable of expressing rational and reasonable opinions. Here, we argue that SST helps to see the pedagogical side of exploring children's perspectives and acknowledges this as a pedagogical and political act. Children experience being heard and having a say in shaping situations. This is in itself a pedagogical situation a researcher should be aware of. KW - Erfahrung KW - Kind KW - Kleinkind KW - Partizipation KW - Perspektive Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4054 SN - 0141-1926 SN - 1469-3518 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford 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 VL - 55 IS - 4 SP - 400 EP - 418 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Streubel, Berit T1 - Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents JF - Cognition and Emotion N2 - Among children and adolescents, emotion understanding relates to academic achievement and higher well-being. This study investigates the role of general and emotion-specific language skills in children’s and adolescents’ emotion understanding, building on previous research highlighting the significance of domain-specific language skills in conceptual development. We employ a novel inventory (CEVVT) to assess emotion-specific vocabulary. The study involved 10–11-year-old children (N = 29) and 16–17-year-old adolescents (N = 28), examining their emotion recognition and knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. Results highlight the ongoing development of emotion-specific vocabulary across these age groups. Emotion recognition correlated with general vocabulary in the younger group. In the older age group, emotion recognition was related to emotion-specific vocabulary size, but this effect only became apparent when controlling for the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary. Against expectation, there were no significant contributions of general or emotion-specific vocabulary to knowledge of emotion regulation strategies in either age group. These findings enhance our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between language and emotion across developmental stages. KW - Sprachentwicklung KW - Kind KW - Jugend KW - Wortschatz KW - Emotionales Lernen Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2346745 SN - 0269-9931 SN - 1464-0600 VL - 39 IS - 7 SP - 1664 EP - 1673 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Sixtus, Elena A1 - Kachel, Gregor A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Children's understanding of demonstratives BT - An experimental study with German-speaking children between 5 and 7 years of age JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - Demonstratives (“this”/“that”) express a speaker-relative distance contrast and need to be substituted for each other systematically: depending on their relative position, what one speaker refers to by saying “this” another speaker has to refer to by saying “that.” This substitution aspect of demonstratives poses additional difficulties for learning demonstratives, because it requires recognizing that two speakers have to refer to the same thing with different words, and might be one reason for the reportedly protracted acquisition of demonstratives. In an online study conducted in German, it was investigated whether children in the estimated upper age range of demonstrative acquisition (5 to 7 years) understand demonstratives' substitution aspect with familiar (“dies”/“das”) and novel (“schmi”/“schmu”) demonstratives, and whether they understand novel words (“schmi”/“schmu”) when used non-demonstratively as labels (N = 73; between-subject). Children's accuracy was compared with adult performance (N = 74). The study shows that children between 5 and 7 years of age perform less accurately than adults in all conditions. While adults' performance was highly accurate in all conditions (between 75% and 92% correct), children performed below chance in both demonstrative conditions and above chance in the labeling condition. This suggests that children do not understand demonstratives in the presented setup. More detailed analyses of children's response patterns indicate that they instead treat words as mutually exclusive labels in any condition. KW - Demonstrativpronomen KW - Spracherwerb KW - Perspektivübernahme Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1403528 VL - 15 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER -