New Releases 2023
Grundlegende Kompetenzen sichern: Lernende und Lehrende im Blick ; Tagungsband des AK Grundschule in der GDM 2023 / hg. von Anna Susanne Steinweg
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Mathematikdidaktik Grundschule ; 12)
978-3-86309-961-9
Price: 17,00 €
The Proceedings of the 2023 Conference of the Research Group on Primary Mathematics Education (Arbeitskreis Grundschule in der GDM) focus on the current question of how mathematics teaching in primary school can enable all children to acquire fundamental competencies, which are essential in the further learning process, and ensure long-term learning effects. Additionally, workings groups on the research areas arithmetic, geometry, modelling, as well as groups on early mathematics education, communication & co-operation, ICT education, and last not least on teacher education offered discussions on further current research issues.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-91231
Lexical anaphora : a corpus-based typological study of referential choice / Nils Norman Schiborr
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Beiträge zur Linguistik ; 22)
978-3-86309-938-1
Price: 25,00 €
Whenever speakers refer to entities or events, they are tasked with making a series of decisions: which entity to refer to, how to embed it into syntactic structures, and which type of expression to use for the reference. This study concerns itself with the last of these decisions, the selection of the linguistic exponents of reference, or referential choice. While it is well known that languages differ greatly in their preference for either pronominal (*she*, *this*) or zero anaphora (ellipsis) to refer back to previously mentioned discourse referents, the overall rates of occurrence of lexically-headed anaphora (*the woman*, *Jane*) in monological discourse turn out to be remarkably stable across languages.
This study examines the circumstances in which speakers opt for the more informative but less econominal choice of lexical references over reduced alternatives. It does so from a typological and comparative angle, charting the cross-linguistic stability of certain classes of explanatory factors and the parametricization of others across languages. Rather than adopting a specific theoretical framework in its approach to the question, it instead explores a number of empirical bottom-up approaches, deriving complex analytical categories from multiple levels of relatively basic annotations. Where earlier research on referential choice has been focused predominantly based on written data, or else on small data sets of spoken language from English and other overrepresented languages, this study addresses issues of typological representativity by employing spoken corpora from a diverse set of ten languages, many of which are understudied and endangered.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59773
Journalism Education in the Context of Development and Digital Transformation : A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Academic Journalism Degree Programs in Cambodia and Vietnam / Eira Martens-Edwards
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Beiträge zur Kommunikationswissenschaft ; 18)
978-3-86309-918-3
Price: 33,00 €
This dissertation forms part of international journalism research, which has witnessed an upsurge in global comparative studies since the late twentieth century. A new wave of scholarship reflects the need to expand theoretical approaches and research initiatives beyond national borders. The PhD research contributes to the field as a cross-national, intra-regional comparative study of academic journalism training in the context of human development and digital transformation. Based on structural, functional and normative theories of journalism research, secondary analysis of local framework conditions and primary data collection in the two focus countries Vietnam and Cambodia, the author develops a multi-level model and an indicator system for the evaluation of journalism degree programs on the basis of specific quality criteria. This new approach allows for a systematic assessment of academic journalism education within the context of digitalization and development. In doing so, this project not only contributed to international comparative journalism research, but also provides useful approaches to practitioners in the field of journalism training and education in the Global South.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-54140
Strategisches Lernen in der Studieneingangsphase, eine Herausforderung für Studierende? : Eine Untersuchung im Fachbereich der Erziehungswissenschaften / Simone Antje Goppert
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Schriften aus der Fakultät Humanwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg ; 41)
978-3-86309-955-8
Price: 24,00 €
The transition from school to university is a challenge for some students due to the new demands placed on them by the university learning environment (e. g. more freedom in organizing their own learning). Self-regulated learning can be seen as significant for overcoming this challenge in the introductory phase of studies. It is characterized by the competence areas of cognition, metacognition and motivation. Since it can be assumed that self-regulated learning is promoted by teachers during school lessons, students should enter university with corresponding competences. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate self-regulated learning (including learning strategy use, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, time investment, and study engagement), motivational attitudes (self-efficacy, optimism), and demographic background (age, gender, prior achievement) of undergraduate students from the educational sciences. The focus lies on the strategic learning behaviour. The first research question deals with the influence of various characteristics (e. g. learning strategy use) on academic performance as well as with possible interactions between these characteristics. The second research question concerns the Unskilled-but-Unaware Effect (Kruger & Dunning, 1999). For this effect it is characteristic that students with weaker (academic) performance overestimating their own performance. The third research question provides information about the existence of learning profiles among students gained through a cluster analysis. The results suggest, that students' prior achievement (high school GPA) as well as their frequency use of surface strategies are predictive for their academic performance when considered together with other variables. Furthermore, it could be shown that students do not stick to their estabilished plans for time investment (starting exam preparation) and study engagement (attendance in class) over the semester. Furthermore, gender differences were found in terms of learning strategy use (surface strategies, resource-based strategies), metacognitive knowledge, and self-efficacy. The Unskilled-but-Unaware Effect could also be found for students from the educational sciences. In addition, four different learning profiles could be identified among students through cluster analysis.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-90487
Liturgische Bildung : Systematisierung und Perspektiven aus religionspädagogischer Sicht / Johannes Löhlein
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Junge Theologie ; 1)
978-3-86309-946-6
Online edition only
In view of the necessity of liturgical formation, the lack of systematisation of this subject area is surprising. This seems to be especially true in the field of religious education, as an analysis of the research literature of the past two decades shows. Accordingly, it is necessary to systematise the discourse on and to point out perspectives for a contemporary liturgical formation. Four interrelated intentions are addressed by liturgical formation, the most important of which is the self-development of the human being. The encouragement of active participation, one of the liturgical principles of the Second Vatican Council, and a genuine contribution to religious education are further goals of liturgical formation. The fourth purpose of liturgical formation lies in its critical potential. As a further form of systematisation, liturgical formation takes place both outside and inside the liturgy, but because the celebration of the liturgy itself forms participants, it becomes the focus of liturgical formation. This leads Johannes Löhlein to conclude from the perspective of religious education, that a theological liturgical formation must begin with the human being. At the same time, he suggests that the contribution of religious education is to be found in biblical and symbolic didactic concepts. Further focal points for contemporary liturgical formation include worship space and occasional services.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-89933
Die Geheime Staatspolizei im NS-Gau Mainfranken 1933-1945 / Andreas Heinrich Winkler
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg ; 45)
978-3-86309-947-3
Price: 23,00 €
This paper deals with the history of the Gestapo in the Gau Mainfranken. The administrative term “Gau Mainfranken“ was used during the period of Nazi Germany for Lower Franconia. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Nazis took control of the Bavarian state police. They split off the Würzburg police's political department into a separate entity, the Bavarian Political Police.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler gave Himmler the control over Germany's entire police. The Bavarian Political Police in Würzburg became a part of the Gestapo as Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle Würzburg.
In the summer of 1941, the Staatspolizeistelle Würzburg was converted into a branch of the Staatspolizeistelle Nuremberg-Fürth.
The personal and organizational structures are examined: Who were the people who worked for the Gestapo and in which departments were they deployed?
Furthermore, the operation of the Gestapo is analyzed by using various examples: Communists and Jewish fellow citizens were already being persecuted in the early phase. It was already evident here, that the Gestapo was not working with the rule of law. Confessions were extracted with the help of threats and violence.
During the Second World War, many employees were transferred to the Einsatzgruppen (paramilitary death squads of the SS) or police stations in the occupied territories.
The most important sources for this paper were the files of the public prosecutor's offices in Schweinfurt, Würzburg and Nuremberg-Fürth, which initiated investigations into various crimes after the war.
A special focus was on the handling of the Gestapo with the forced laborers in the ball bearing industry of Schweinfurt. The Gestapo was responsible for monitoring and punishing the forced laborers. It is shown, how successful the Gestapo was in enforcing these penalties.
For this purpose, files of the Gestapo Würzburg were evaluated. The Gestapo kept files on all persons, who had come forward to the state police. The entire process of the investigation was recorded in these files.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-90229
Vergebung als Neuschöpfung : Die Notwendigkeit der Vergebung im Kontext der Sünde des Menschen / Lisa Martin
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Theologische Studien ; 44)
978-3-86309-932-9
Price: 22,00 €
»If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.« (1 John 1:8)
Even if guilt and sin are genuinely human experiences that affect everyone without exception, dealing with one’s own guilt or becoming guilty again and again varies greatly: for some, the realisation of one’s own guilt is a burdensome yet not hopeless situation, for others it is a paralysing experience, and still others take refuge in repression and denial. In the history of the Church, it has been established time and again that one's own acknowledgement and recognition of guilt are necessary prerequisites for healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation processes.
People of today also have a sense of guilt and situations of disaster, as can be seen, for example, in the protests surrounding climate change or the exploitation of the so-called Third World by Western civilisations. However, the ecclesiastical practice of forgiveness, which even has its own sacrament in the form of confession within the Catholic Church and thus seems to be particularly specialised in experiences of guilt, is increasingly rarely consulted when it comes to forgiveness, reconciliation and pardon.
A look at church history shows that this has not always been the case. This volume attempts to fathom the causes and reasons for this change and also asks how (sacramental) divine forgiveness differs from purely interpersonal means and ways of reconciliation and what perspectives result from this for the church’s practice of proclamation.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59666
Gedichte aus dem goldenen Jahrhundert Valencias : Eine Anthologie ; 30 poetische Meditationen über die Angst vor Gottes Zorn, die Unmöglichkeit der reinen Liebe, die Erforschung der eigenen Gefühle und das Scheitern der Ansprüche an der Wirklichkeit / Ausias March. Aus dem Altkatalanischen übersetzt und herausgegeben von Hans-Ingo Radatz
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Editionen ; 19)
978-3-86309-924-4
Price: 30,00 €
Ausias March (1400-1459) lived in a time of upheaval: the last certainties of the Middle Ages were giving way to the spirit of the early modern age; the bourgeoisie began to seriously compete with the nobility and the ideals of the fin’amors of the Occitan trobadors began to falter. At the same time, King Alfonso V of Aragon set off for Italy to become King of Naples, thus linking the kingdoms of the Aragonese crown in personal union with the Italian south. The resulting lively cultural exchange also brought the ideas and fashions of the Italian Renaissance to Valencia, the largest city on the Iberian Peninsula at the time. This was followed by the “segle d'or de les lletres valencianes” - the "golden century of Valencian literature", which can be seen as a precursor to the “Siglo de oro” of Castilian literature that followed. In the field of poetry, Ausias March is undoubtedly the most important representative of this Golden Age. This anthology provides an introduction to his life and work and presents 30 selected poems in the Catalan original and in a metrical German translation.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59708
Mobility in a Globalised World 2022 / Eric Sucky, Jan Werner, Niels Biethahn, Alexander Dobhan (Ed.)
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Logistik und Supply Chain Management ; 27)
978-3-86309-940-4
Price: 22,00 €
The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics, mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation to income and wealth within their lifetime or between generations. In information systems and computer science, mobility is used for the concept of mobile computing, in which a computer is transported by a person during normal use. Logistics creates by the design of logistics networks the infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods. Electric mobility is one of today’s solutions from an engineering perspective to reduce the need of energy resources and environmental impact. Moreover, for urban planning, mobility is the crunch question about how to optimize the different needs for mobility and how to link different transportation systems. In this publication we collected the ideas of practitioners, researchers, and government officials regarding the different modes of mobility in a globalised world, focusing on both domestic and international issues.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-89738
Les héros dans l’ombre : Leadership scolaire et qualité de l’éducation dans un contexte de précarité / Jean Kasereka Lutswamba
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Regards croisés Afrique-Europe. Cahiers supplémentaires ; 6)
978-3-86309-914-5
Price: 21,00 €
The study focuses on school leadership in nursery, primary and secondary schools in the DRC. In the DRC and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many schools operate in very poor conditions. Yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present quality education as a requirement and a right of every child. Precariousness should therefore not be an excuse for quality education. Considering the importance of school leadership in the effectiveness of learning, the study proposes an analysis of the types of school leadership to be applied in order to develop the quality of education even in situations of precariousness. Through a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews, grounded theory and abduction, the study identified five main and ideal types of school leadership: instructional leadership (focus on the teaching-learning process), shared leadership (focus on the involvement of all), entrepreneurial leadership (focus on entrepreneurship), situational leadership (focus on the style of leadership to be applied according to the context) and inertial leadership (focus on procedures and authority). These types were discussed in terms of their respective impacts on quality education. Some suggestions on how to improve the education system in the DRC conclude this study.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-58608
Quality of Teacher Education : Experiences of Student Teachers vis-à-vis Teachers’ Feedback / Christine Nyiramana
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Regards croisés Afrique-Europe. Cahiers supplémentaires ; 5)
978-3-86309-912-1
Price: 22,00 €
This study focused on investigating the learning situation of student teachers especially their experiences on feedback they receive during their study time including teaching practice. It was conducted in Rwanda. The study was guided by the theories on educational quality which, on one side, places teacher education at the central position of ensuring effective teaching and learning process. In this line, effective training to make sure that teachers are taught in the same way they are expected to teach is essential. On the other side, feedback, which is an important element of the learning engine, is indicated necessary for ensuring that student teachers learn from a conducive environment. This study intended to answer the research question “How does teacher education look like regarding feedback in the Rwandan context?”. To answer this research question, the study was conceptualized as a qualitative research where semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 student teachers who have been selected using a theoretical sampling strategy from 13 Rwandan Higher Learning Institutions. Data collection was done in combination with data analysis to maximize all the qualities in the field. Qualitative content analysis using intertwined deductive-inductive approach has been used for data analysis. With abduction process, a deep analysis of the empirical data led to the definition of criteria and then ideal types of feedback experienced by student teachers in Rwanda. With this analysis, three types of feedback namely administrative feedback, correctional feedback, and instructional feedback emerged. Further analysis showed that student teachers in Rwanda experience different forms of feedback. They have divergent understandings of feedback. Delayed feedback leads to increased uncertainty among students, communication of feedback creates different forms of relationships between student teachers and teacher educators. In addition, student teachers learn implicitly from teacher educators how to provide feedback, and there are no common standards regarding internships. The analysis of the results of this study with regard to the discourse on teacher education, feedback, and educational quality indicates that feedback in teacher education has a multidimensional effect.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-58417
Compréhension de la gestion de classe : Étude qualitative sur la professionnalisation des enseignants non-qualifiés du primaire à Madagascar / Onja Tiana Raharijaona
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Regards croisés Afrique-Europe. Cahiers supplémentaires ; 4)
978-3-86309-909-1
Price: 21,00 €
Cette étude porte sur la compréhension de la gestion de classe par les enseignants non-qualifiés, et ce, à l’égard de leur professionnalisation. Son contexte se situe au niveau de l’enseignement primaire à Madagascar. 16,9% des enseignants du primaire ont une qualification professionnelle initiale. D’après le discours scientifique, la gestion de classe constitue un aspect non compensable de la qualité de l’enseignement à côté de la connaissance de la matière. La majorité des recherches empiriques sur cette thématique sont issues des données provenant de pays développés et se concentrent sur les enseignants ayant une formation théorique avant d’entrer dans la pratique. De ce fait, cette étude qualitative se focalise sur les perceptions de la gestion de classe par les enseignants non-qualifiés, en rapport avec leur professionnalisation. Les données ont été collectées auprès d’un échantillon de 30 enseignants non-qualifiés du primaire en utilisant la méthode d’interview semi-structurée via une méthodologie qualitative. Suite à une analyse de contenus, trois types idéaux émergent de l’exploration du matériau de recherche à savoir la gestion de classe basée sur une autorité hiérarchique en vue d’une organisation stricte ; la gestion de classe basée sur les expériences de l’enseignant en vue d’une vie tranquille et la gestion de classe basée sur l’implication des élèves en vue d’un apprentissage. Ces résultats sont discutés à la lumière des théories de la qualité de l’éducation, du développement de la société et de la théologie protestante. Enfin, les réflexions sur les résultats empiriques obtenus engendrent une série de recommandations vis-à-vis de la recherche et de la pratique éducative.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-58418
Kollaborative Hörspielproduktion in einer mehrsprachigen Lerngruppe : Medienpädagogische und deutschdidaktische Aspekte / Laura Maria Mogl
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg ; 43)
978-3-86309-928-2
Price: 30,00 €
The study examines the competencies of elementary school students necessary for the collaborative transformation of a picture book into a radio play.
It focuses on a teaching scenario in which elementary school students adapt the picture book „Hast du Angst?“, fragte die Maus by Rafik Schami and Kathrin Schärer (2013). It deals with the subject areas of radio play, multilingualism and collaborative writing, which are intended to be meaningfully linked within the framework of such a radio play production.
A teaching concept is being developed in which such a radio play production is to be located in a multilingual learning group in order to show the potential for literature and language didactics.
As part of this study, the resulting text productions of the students are analyzed and evaluated. In addition to the implementation of the text type radio play script, which is new for the learners, the main focus of the investigation includes the text competence which is reflected in the consideration of the recipient in the text product. Since the learners were allowed to use other languages or language varieties in their scripts, these multilingual passages are also examined and systematized.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59470
Goethes Privatbibliothek im Spiegel der Italienischen Reise : Ausgewählte Bände als Quellen im Schreibprozess / Kimberley Wegner
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Medien ; 36)
978-3-86309-922-0
Price: 19,00 €
Die Privatbibliothek von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) ist eine der bedeutendsten Autorenbibliotheken der deutschen Literatur, die bei seinen relevanten literarischen Projekten ein essenzielles Arbeitsmittel war und reichhaltiges Quellenmaterial zur Kontextualisierung seiner Werke beinhaltet. Dennoch blieben dezidierte wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum umfangreichen Korpus weitestgehend aus. Dies verwundert, weil die historischen Exemplare mit nonverbalen und verbalen Lesespuren wie Marginalien und An- und Unterstreichungen versehen sind, die zeigen, wie Goethe mit den Büchern gearbeitet hat und entschleiern, was im fertigen Text zunächst verborgen bleibt. Das Thema bietet reichlich unausgeschöpftes Bearbeitungspotenzial, weshalb im Fokus dieser Forschung die Untersuchung von Lesespuren in ausgewählten Werken von Goethes privater Büchersammlung steht, die zuvor nicht unter den Gesichtspunkten sowie in diesem Ausmaß analysiert wurden.
Besonders die Entstehung der Italienischen Reise lässt sich mit Hilfe der Bücher aus Goethes Privatbibliothek nachvollziehen, denn beim Verfassen des Textes wurde Goethe durch andere Bücher aus seiner Bibliothek beeinflusst, in denen sich Lesespuren befinden. Beim literarischen Produktionsprozess waren insbesondere die Reiseberichte Historisch-kritische Nachrichten von Italien von Johann Jacob Volkmann (1732–1803) und Voyage en Sicile et dans la grande Grèce von Johann Hermann Riedesel (1740–1785) elementar. Sie stechen aus der Masse der Bücher von Goethes Privatbibliothek heraus, weil sie diverse Lesespuren enthalten, die Indizien über den literarischen Produktionszyklus der Italienischen Reise liefern. Anhand der Analyse, Interpretation sowie Kontextualisierung der Lesespuren soll untersucht werden, ob bei dem Reisebericht ein Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Authentizität und literarischem Konstrukt vorliegt und inwieweit die Privatbibliothek Goethes als ein Spiegel der Italienischen Reise fungiert.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59485
The Bible, Quran, and COVID-19 Vaccines : Studies on Religion-based Vaccine Perceptions (Africa – Europe – Middle East) / edited by Joachim Kügler and Kathrin Gies
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bible in Africa Studies ; 37) (Exploring Religion in Africa ; 12)
978-3-86309-930-5
Price: 21,00 €
This volume of the BiAS/ ERA series chooses a multi-religious approach to the religio-cultural aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attempts to overcome it by vaccination. The book includes contributions focusing on African Traditional Religion, several branches of Christianity in Africa, and Islamic denominations. In contrast to other volumes, BiAS 37/ ERA 12 is not limited to a specific country – not even to the African continent. It gathers papers from the international and multi-religious workshop “COVID-19 and Religion” (November 2021, University of Bamberg) and some additional articles. The contributions to BiAS 37 focus on the vaccination debate. “Why should God, Scripture, and Church be against vaccination?” is the main question, and there are some indications that social and political factors that regulate the cultural application of religion might be more important for vaccinophobia than faith itself.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59373
Digitalisierung in der Hochschullehre : Perspektiven und Gestaltungsoptionen / Herausgegeben von Lorenz Mrohs, Miriam Hess, Konstantin Lindner, Julia Schlüter und Sven Overhage
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Forum Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung ; 11)
978-3-86309-886-5
Preis: 26,00 €
Die Digitalisierung übt tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf verschiedenste Bereiche menschlichen Lebens aus, unter anderem auf Bildung und damit einhergehend auch auf die Hochschullehre. Eine Kultur der Digitalität (Felix Stalder) verändert nicht nur die für Hochschulen grundlegenden Formen der Produktion von Wissen, sondern ebenso die Umgangsformen und Lehr-Lern-Strategien, die in Lehrveranstaltungen zum Einsatz kommen. Sie wirkt sich auf die Art und Weise aus, wie Wissensinhalte und Kompetenzen vermittelt, erworben und angewendet werden, aber auch auf die Integration digitaler Lerninhalte, die Schaffung neuer Lehr- und Lernmethoden sowie neuer Prüfungsformate.
Eine Kultur der Digitalität eröffnet Chancen, um die Qualität der Lehre zu verbessern – beispielsweise durch die Erhöhung von Flexibilität, durch Anpassungsmöglichkeiten an die individuellen Bedürfnisse der Studierenden oderdurch die Vorbereitung sowie Ermöglichung lebenslangen Lernens. Damit verbunden sind jedoch auch Herausforderungen, die beispielsweise im Verhältnis und der Orchestrierung von Präsenz- und Online-Phasen, in der technischen Ausstattung oder in der nötigen Professionalität der Dozierenden gründen. Letztlich kommt es darauf an, die Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung für die Hochschullehre gezielt und sinnvoll zu nutzen, um zu einer Erhöhung der Qualität beizutragen.
Dieser Sammelband hat das Ziel zu einer zukunftsweisenden interdisziplinären Entwicklung und sinnvollen Gestaltung einer digitalen Kultur der Lehre beizutragen. Die enthaltenen Beiträge diskutieren allgemeine Rahmungen zur Digitalisierung der Hochschullehre und präsentieren sodann Ausführungen zu digitalen und digital gestützten Formaten verschiedener Größenordnung: von einzelnen Tools, über die Ebene von Lehrveranstaltungen bis hin zur Studienorganisation und flankierenden Maßnahmen.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59190
(Un-)Gerechtigkeit!? : Beteiligung des Christentums an einer (un)gerechten Welt / Herausgegeben von Alexander Schmitt, Lena Janneck, Stefan Huber und Sophia Bertold
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Theologische Studien ; 43)
978-3-86309-896-4
Price: 23,00 €
Without a doubt, Christianity and the Christian ethos strive for more justice in the world. In the gospels, Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God as well as his actions determine what is just and what is unjust. In the history of Christianity, numerous Christians and theologians fought against the prevailing hegemonic morality for a better world. At the same time however, today’s world is characterised by persistent injustice and inequality: According to the World Hunger Index 2022, up to 828 million people suffered from hunger in 2021. In general, people are often deprived of what they so urgently need for a wholesome life in abundance – in the everyday life of local communities and in the life of the Catholic Church, too.
In view of the central importance of the biblical concept of justice and the factual injustice in the world, Christian theology in particular needs to address the following questions: How is it possible to speak of salvation and justice at the same time and to actually change reality so salvation can be found?
This demand for more justice, however, does not say anything about whether Christianity actually lives up to its mission – to be an instrument and sign of salvation in the world. Therefore, the articles in this anthology address the question of a Christian-theological contribution to more justice, but also more injustice in the world. They cover questions of justice in biblical texts, their theatrical staging, questions of gender equality and sexual ethics, as well as ecological and economic questions and reflections on Christian praxis in the context of law and justice.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-59109
Religion and Health in a COVID-19 Context: Experiences from Zimbabwe / Edited by Molly Manyonganise
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bible in Africa Studies ; 36) (Exploring Religion in Africa ; 11)
978-3-86309-911-4
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BIAS 36 ist an essays collection that explores the intersection of religion and health in a COVID-19 context specifically focusing on Zimbabwe. With the menace of COVID-19 across cultures, this volume places its focus on this pandemic and how it has reshaped the discourse on the way, religion interfaces with health. The book further examines the ambivalence of religion in shaping attitudes towards health-seeking behaviour as well as influencing responses to pandemics. This book, therefore, makes a valuable contribution to the body of knowledge by offering an incisive analysis of how the pandemic has shaped the way religion has contributed both positively and negatively to the discourse on health in Zimbabwe. Such an analysis is crucial in informing policy on the future relationship between science and religion in public health both during this pandemic as well as in the post-pandemic era and the crises ahead. The book contains contributions by Molly MANYONGANISE (ed.) / Vengesai CHIMININGE / Enna Sukutai GUDHLANGA / Bernard Pindukai HUMBE / Angeline Mavis MADONGONDA / Clemence MAKAMURE / Gift MASENGWE / Peter MASVOTORE / Tawanda MATUTU / Tenson MUYAMBO / Bednicho NYONI / Nomatter SANDE / Jane TENDERE / Lovemore TOGARASEI / Lindah TSARA / Silindiwe ZVINGOWANISEI
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Pest und Cholera : Seuchenbewältigung und Medizinalwesen in Bamberg in der Frühen Neuzeit ; Begleitband zur Ausstellung in der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, 24. April – 15. Juli 2023 / Herausgegeben von Mark Häberlein
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bamberger Historische Studien ; 20) (Bamberger Buch-Geschichten ; 2)
978-3-86309-907-7
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Bamberg verfügte seit dem Spätmittelalter über ein differenziertes Gesundheitswesen mit Spitälern, Siechenhäusern, Apotheken und Badstuben; seit dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert stellten die Bischöfe zudem Hof- und Leibärzte an. Anders als in protestantischen Städten wie Nürnberg kam es im katholischen Bamberg jedoch nicht zur Zentralisierung und Kommunalisierung der Gesundheitsfürsorge, so dass diese von einer Vielzahl von Akteuren gestaltet wurde. Charakteristisch für das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert war das Verständnis von Epidemien als Strafen Gottes für die Sünden der Menschen, das nicht nur von Herrschern und Klerus, sondern auch von studierten Ärzten geteilt wurde. Gleichwohl sahen Regierung und Ärzteschaft die Untertanen in der Pflicht, sich bestmöglich gegen Epidemien zu schützen, und empfahlen zu diesem Zweck Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung von Hygiene und Luftqualität sowie zur Isolation und Behandlung von Infizierten. Da nicht alle Untertanen Zugang zu Ärzten hatten und die vormoderne Medizin vielen Krankheiten machtlos gegenüberstand, entwickelte sich in Bamberg wie in anderen Städten überdies ein medizinischer Marktplatz, auf dem auch reisende Heiler sowie der örtliche Scharfrichter ihre Dienste anboten. Auf eine neue Grundlage gestellt wurde das Bamberger Medizinalwesen durch die Gründung des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses im Jahre 1789, das sich der Behandlung heilbarer Krankheiten widmete. Obwohl nach 1800 auch eine medizinisch-chirurgische Schule und eine der ersten Nervenheilanstalten Deutschlands entstanden, blieb das Gesundheitswesen bis weit ins 19. Jahrhundert hinein von vormodernen Strukturen und Vorstellungen geprägt. Diese Entwicklungen werden in einer Ausstellung in der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, die in einem studentischen Seminar konzipiert wurde, sowie in diesem Begleitband anhand von rund 40 Exponaten nachvollzogen.
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Daring Patriarchy? : Biblical Engagement with Gender Discourses on Political Participation in Post-colonial Zimbabwe / Molly Manyonganise
Bamberg: Univ. of Bamberg Press, 2023
(Bible in Africa Studies ; 35) (Exploring Religion in Africa ; 10)
978-3-86309-902-2
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Dominant religio-cultural discourses on political participation have deployed biblical texts in ways that have shaped Zimbabwe’s political terrain to be gendered space. BiAS 35 argues that the challenges women face in their endeavor to participate fully in politics in Zimbabwe are not only embedded in culture, but have also been reinforced by the way biblical interpretation pertaining to women’s public roles has been done. The study shows the influence of the Bible in shaping gender relations, even in ‘non-religious’ areas. This volume, therefore, seeks to open up more political space for women by examining how the everyday is suffused with politics, that is, politics as affecting interactions between individuals and groups thereby facilitating women’s participation in politics at all levels.
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https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-57154