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1	Exploring the educational significance of science fairs for high school science teachers Mbowane, Clement Kapase January 2016 (has links) In this study, the researcher sought to understand why teachers of Physical Sciences participate in the South African 'Eskom Expo for Young Scientists'. This was analysed in terms of the educational significance that they perceive the science fair to offer, what sustains their participation over a long period of time, and the extent to which Expo participation provides an opportunity for professional development. The educational significance of the Expo was established in terms of its contribution to the Professional Identity of teachers, and was related to the roles (organiser, mentor and judge) of participation in science fairs. The sampling employed in the study was both purposive and convenience-based in nature. Only schools participating regularly (at least five times in the past ten years) in the long running (since 1980) of the 'Expo for Young Scientists' (Northern Gauteng Region) were selected. Five urban public high schools and ten teachers of the school subject "Physical Sciences" were identified to participate in this study. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with two teachers from each school in this QUAL-quan research approach. The interview transcripts were subjected to a thematic analysis, where after the points raised by the teachers were clustered into categories and related to sub-themes and themes according to the educational significance for teachers, the benefits and drawbacks for learners, teachers' Professional Identity, and reasons for sustained participation. Many researchers regard science fairs as one of the better ways to enhance science education. Globally, science fairs have been taking place for more than 30 years and are thought to have educational value for both science teachers and learners. These science fairs provide a context for the development and application of scientific investigation and research skills. This research employed the model of Beijaard, Meijer and Verloop (2004) to characterise teachers' Professional Identity (professional knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, norms and values, and emotions). The researcher also employed Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behaviour to understand why teachers take part and sustain their involvement in the Expo, be it at school or regional level. The major focus was thus on the benefits for teachers as perceived by them, with some contextualisation of the educational benefits and potential drawbacks for learners, while the literature to date has largely reported on the benefits for learners. This study has found that expos provide sustainable educational significance in terms of professional development for teachers, and enhance aspects of their Professional Identity, such as contributing to pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, as well as scientific procedural and declarative or factual knowledge. Their self-efficacy beliefs are strengthened, positive attitudes are developed, and strategies of inquiry based learning and effective methodological instructions in science education, which contributes to their teaching. Learners gain knowledge of science through reading and investigations, and also learn more of the nature of science. Teachers' values (and those of their schools) are reflected when their emotions are lifted in sharing learners' achievements in the science Expo. Teachers learn both from their engagement with learners, but also through networking opportunities with fellow teachers. The consequent enhancement of Professional Identity contributes to the sustainability of their participation in the Expo. Although this research focused on teachers of Physical Sciences, learners in the Expo are guided on projects ranging from biology and environmental sciences, engineering and design, information technology to psychology, and various social sciences beyond the physical sciences. The teachers who guide the subjects related to these fields possibly have similar experiences, thus extending investigations to such teachers would surely provide a richer set of insights. Teachers who do not sustain their participation did not form part of the research, but their experiences and perceptions were included to further enrich the nature of the findings. It is recommended that the opportunity for professional development that is provided by teachers' participation in such school level investigation science fairs be acknowledged and promoted by schools and fair organisers. They can do this by continuing to extend the range of teachers who are encouraged to be involved in such science fairs. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Humanities Education / MEd / Unrestricted UCTD Educational significance Inquiry based learning Professional Identity Professional Development
2	Technik und Bildung in der verwissenschaftlichten Lebenswelt Lumila, Minna 02 June 2023 (has links) Die Studie versucht, Husserls Modell einer nicht-wissenschaftlichen Lebenswelt für pädagogische Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Technik und Bildung in der verwissenschaftlichen Welt zu öffnen. Sie diskutiert Entwicklungsprobleme der Spätmoderne unter pluralen Fragestellungen und führt Ansätze und Traditionen zusammen, die unterschiedliche Wege zur Weiterentwicklung der modernen Bildungstheorie beschritten haben. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie moderne Technik einerseits als lebensweltliche Entfremdung des Menschen problematisiert und andererseits als Produkt menschlicher Freiheit und Weltgestaltung gewürdigt werden kann. In vier Kapiteln werden die methodischen Ansätze und Antworten vorgestellt, die der Philosoph und Pädagoge Eugen Fink (1905–1975), der Philosoph Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), der Philosoph und Erziehungswissenschaftler Theodor Litt (1880–1962) und der Soziologe Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984) auf die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Bildung und Technik gegeben haben. Im Durchgang durch ihre Positionen wird ein Konzert erarbeitet, dessen Originalität darin liegt, Abstimmungsprobleme von Bildung, Technik und Lebenswelt aus postdualistischer, praxistheoretischer sowie posthumanistischer Perspektive zu thematisieren. / The study attempts to open Husserl's model of a non-scientific lifeworld for pedagogical investigations of the relationship between technology and “Bildung” in the scientific world. It discusses developmental problems of late modernity under plural questions and brings together approaches and traditions that have taken different paths to the further development of modern “Bildungs”-theory. The central question is how modern technology can be problematized on the one hand as the alienation of human beings from the world of life and on the other hand be appreciated as a product of human freedom and the shaping of the world. Four chapters present the methodological approaches and answers that philosopher and educator Eugen Fink (1905–1975), philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), philosopher and educationalist Theodor Litt (1880–1962), and sociologist Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984) have given to the question of the relationship between education and technology. In the course of their positions, a concert will be developed whose originality lies in addressing the coordination problems of “Bildung” (education), “Technik” (technology) and “Lebenswelt” (lifeworld) from a post-dualist, praxis-theoretical as well as post-humanist perspective. Seinsphänomenologie Sprung Sein Subjekt-Objekt-Differenz Überwindung des Subjekt-Objekt-Schemas Rationalität Überforderung des Rationalen Weltoffenheit Weltoffenheit des Menschen unhintergehbare Lebenswelt Metaphysikkritik abendländische Metaphysik neuzeitliche Metaphysik Seinsvergessenheit certitudo veritas aletheia Menschenzentriertheit Gegenstand Gegenständlichkeit Vergegenständlichung des Seienden Nichtigkeit Mensch als in die Welt Geworfener mundane Kreation des Daseins Mensch als weltbildend Ek-sistenz das Sein den Menschen das Ekstatische des Menschen Vernehmen als Wahrnehmen In-der-Welt-Sein Weltlichkeit des Menschen das Anwesen des Anwesenden Erde Posthumanismus Mensch als ein werdendes Wesen vormoderne Technik handwerkliche Technik poiesis orthotes Technikkritik Bestand Welt als Inventar Bild Meister Eckhart das Ereignis Denken Philosophie ontologische Differenz Posthumanismus Natur zu Kultur Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur Primäre und sekundäre Qualitäten ursprüngliche Lebenswelt transzendentale Lebenswelt Phänomenologie Quantifizierung Entqualifizierung Entsinnlichung Bedeutungsentleerung Edmund Husserl Martin Heidegger Eugen Fink Koexistentialien Arbeit Herrschaft Liebe Tod Spiel Erziehung Erziehung als Beratung Technische Bildung kosmologische Lebenswelt Vielfalt der lebensweltlichen Praxis Fraglichwerden humanistischer Werte Dualismuskritik kosmologische Differenz menschliche Selbstverständigung Lebenslehre Nachdualistische Sozialphänomenologie Ende des humanistischen Menschen Marginalisierung der Welt Krise der allgemeingültigen Leitbilder Erziehung als Beratung Fragegesellschaft Erziehungswissenschaft als Praxistheorie das Wissen als menschliche Möglichkeit techne Fügsamkeit Einfügung Daseinsorientierung verwissenschaftlichte Welt Schöpfertum des Ingenieurs Die kreative Tätigkeit des Technikers Schöpfungskraft des Kosmos Schöpferkraft der menschlichen Freiheit Prinzipielle Unbestimmtheit des Menschen Theodor Litt Umgang Trias von Subjekt-Objekt-Methode antinomische Lebenswelt Mensch-Welt-Verhältnis Pädagogik Unverdrängbarkeit des Umgangs Freiheit der Wissenschaften Segen der Reflexion Umgangshermeneutik Hermeneutik Mit- und Füreinandersein Umgang mit der Natur zwischenmenschlicher Umgang neuzeitliche Rationalität Natur Geist Subjekt Objekt neuzeitliche Produktionsordnung Bildungsbedeutung der Naturwissenschaft Versachlichung des Weltverhältnisses Arbeitswelt Sache Vielfalt der Sinndeutungen Segen der Reflexion gegenständliches Denken rechnende Naturwissenschaft Mittel-Zweck-Relation Ursache-Wirkung-Relation Subjekt-Objekt-Verhältnis Entpersönlichung des Subjekts Formalisierung des Objekts Reflexivität Leiblichkeit Marginalisierung des Menschen Versachlichung des Menschen Mensch als Funktionär Trennung von Ich und Welt Trennung von Natur und Geist Sinnlichkeit Begegnung mit seinesgleichen Verkümmerung des Umgangs leiblich-seelische Totalität Individualität Unmenschlichkeit des Menschen Menschlichkeit des Menschen Selbstentfremdung Antinomie moderner Menschenbildung Selbstbeaufsichtigung Kultivierung des Umgangs Genealogie der modernen Technik Maschinenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Kultivierung von Sinnvielfalt Menschenwissenschaft Wissenschaften vom Außermenschlichen Schutz der Menschlichkeit Zwängen der Produktionsordnung Bildung als Sacharbeit Helmut Schelsky metaphysische Dauerreflexion Absterben des Staates technischer Staat metaphysischer Nihilismus wissenschaftliche Zivilisation Reales Weltbürgertum Spezialgelehrtentum Fachgelehrtentum Sachzwang Freiheit Sachgesetzlichkeiten Offenheit menschlicher Sinnentwürfe Selbstentfremdung des Menschen wissenschaftlich-technische Zivilisation Objektivierung des Menschen Naturzwang Produktionszwang Sachlogik der technischen Zivilisation Bildung durch Wissenschaft jene Freiheit einer offenen Zukunft Verwissenschaftlichung aller Praxis Vergesellschaftung der Wissenschaft Vergesellschaftung der Universität Wissenschaftlichkeit der Technik Mensch als Wissenschaft und als Arbeit Erziehung zur Wissenschaftlichkeit Überwindung der Wissenschaft Bildung als Ermöglichung von Freiheit Vielfalt des Daseins Grenzen wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis Synthese der Wissenschaften Fragmentierte Produktion des Menschen Sozialwissenschaften Joachim Ritter Mnemosyne Kompensation von Geschichtslosigkeit Gedächtnis historische Lebenswelt Michel Foucault Genealogische Rekonstruktion Friedrich Nietzsche Aktiver Nihilismus Dietrich Benner Negativität Nicht-Affirmativität Praxeologie Malte Brinkmann fragmentarischer Charakter des Menschen Dualismus-Kritik Egon Schütz Anthropologischer Zirkel C. 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Snow Erziehung und Bildung Technik Lebenswelt Verwissenschaftlichte Lebenswelt Lebenswelt als eine kritische Kategorie phenomenology of being leap being subject-object difference overcoming the subject-object schema rationality openness to the world metaphysical critique occidental metaphysics modern metaphysics Forgetfulness of being certitudo veritas aletheia human-centeredness object objectivity objectification of being nothingness mundane creation of existence human being as world-forming ek-sistence the ecstatic of the human being being-in-the-world worldliness of the human being the presence of the present posthumanism human being as a becoming being pre-modern technology poiesis orthotes critique of technology world as inventory image Meister Eckhart the event thinking philosophy ontological difference posthumanism nature to culture relationship between human and nature Primary and secondary qualities original lifeworld transcendental lifeworld phenomenology quantification de-qualification de-sensualisation coexistentials education education as counselling technical education cosmological lifeworld diversity of lifeworld practice questioning of humanistic values critique of dualism cosmological difference human self-understanding post-dualistic social phenomenology end of humanistic human being marginalisation of the world production of human being by human being education as counselling knowledge as human possibility techne existential orientation scientised world creative activity of the technician creative power of the cosmos creative power of human freedom Umgang triad of subject-object method dual of natural sciences and humanities antinomic lifeworld Umgang as a basis for modern education pedagogy resistance of Umgang to ideologies defense of democracy against fascism phenomenological motifs of Theodor Litt hermeneutics being with and for one another nature spirit subject object modern order of production objectification of world relations diversity of interpretations of meaning cause and effect subject-object relationship depersonalisation of the subject reflexivity marginalisation of the human being objectification of the human being the human being as a functionary separation of the I and the world separation of nature and spirit individuality inhumanity of the human being humanity of the human being self-alienation antinomy of modern education genealogy of the modern technology humanities cultivation of multiplicity of meaning human science advisory function of human science protection of humanity reflection death of the state technical state metaphysical nihilism scientific civilisation real cosmopolitanism specialised scholarship human being in scientific civilisation freedom scientific marginalisation of the world openness of human possibilities loss of function of the humanities self-alienation of the human being scientific-technical civilisation objectification of the human being compulsory production education in scientific civilisation fragmented production of human being Mnemosyne memory historical lifeworld active nihilism genealogical reconstruction negativity non-affirmativity praxeology fragmentary character of the human being critique of dualism anthropological circle education (Bildung) technology technical education lifeworld scientified lifeworld lifeworld as a critical category human being as thrown into the world crisis of universally valid values creatorship of the engineer 370 Bildung und Erziehung DF 3000 ddc:370

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Exploring the educational significance of science fairs for high school science teachers

Technik und Bildung in der verwissenschaftlichten Lebenswelt