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This paper will present in broad strokes the professional lifespan and philosophical doctrine of Israeli educational philosopher Ilan Gur-Ze’ev (1955-2012). Major attention will be devoted to his articulation of the concept of “new antisemitism,” which seeks to capture the uniqueness of the contemporary form of antisemitism. Compared to “older” forms of antisemitism, which situated the Jews in opposition to western civilization, as its ultimate “other,” contemporary progressive thinkers identify “Jewishness” and Jewish ideas such a “chosenness,” “elitism” and “uniqueness,” as the innate evil embedded deep within the “suppressing, white, colonial patriarchy” of the Judo-Christian civilization. Thus, the redemption of the soul of the new progressive thinker from the historical sins of western civilization, involves cleansing it from its “Jewishness.” It also involves an attack on the physical representation of everything that is wrong in western civilization – the Jewish state.
Background
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic not only threatens physical health, but also affects the mental health of people. Yet, health consequences of the pandemic do not affect all members of society equally. We therefore assessed the mental health burden of individuals who are at increased risk of severe illness from Covid-19 compared to individuals who are at low risk of severe illness during the first lockdown (March, 2020) in Germany. Furthermore, we investigated variables mediating the effect of being an individual at increased risk of serve illness on depression.
Methods
Adult German residents (n = 2.369) provided responses to a cross-sectional online survey about risk factors for of severe illness from Covid-19 and various aspects of mental health during the first lockdown in Germany. For data collection, standardized and validated self-report measures were used and for data analysis Mann-Whitney U-tests as well as regression and mediation analyses were performed.
Results
The results clearly show that the mental health burden is higher among individuals at increased risk of severe illness from Covid-19 compared to individuals at low risk of severe illness from Covid-19. Moreover, our findings indicate that the association between Covid-19 risk status and depressive symptoms is mediated by concerns about mental health, anxiety and loneliness in a causal effect chain.
Conclusions
Individuals at increased risk of severe illness from Covid-19 have an increased need for psychosocial support during times of lockdown. Future public health policies should pay special attention to these individuals and support them by targeted offers. More research, however, is needed on possible long-term consequences of social distancing on mental health.
In order to make justice work, participation and reconciliation is needed within and between societies, peoples, and nations. In this compilation, authors - senior academics as well as students from Bethlehem University, Israel, and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany – contribute to this important field. Thus, to some extent, the book in itself is an example of the subjects it deals with.
Photovoice as a participatory method: impacts on the individual, community and societal levels
(2020)
We present the visual data collection method called “photovoice” in participatory research, and discuss its impetus for change and its possible impacts on work with different groups of people. Using three case examples
from PartKommPlus – Research Consortium for Healthy Communities, we report our experiences from joint research involving adults with learning difficulties and young people. Following the Photovoice Impact Model of
CATALANI and MINKLER (2010), we assigned the observed impacts to three categories: the individual, community and societal levels. In line with the model, we discuss the contribution that the photovoice method can make to the
individual empowerment of co-researchers, the understanding of community needs and assets, and to changing social reality by influencing political and other key actors.
Combating antisemitism is a young policy field with regard to structured state action. The article presents the relevance of combating antisemi-tism and its emergence as a decided state task in order to show exemplarily, using the Berlin model of combating antisemitism as an example, how it is concretely implemented in state action. Berlin is chosen for three reasons: First, the state of Berlin is the first and only federal state to have a cross-departmental concept for combating an-tisemitism. Second, the Berlin model is based on integrative cooperation between state and civil society agencies. Third, looking at Berlin allows for the perspective of interlocking different ver-tical differentiations of administration, since the state of Berlin is at the same time a large city, which with its twelve districts has administrative dimensions that correspond to those of other large German cities, in each case and in them-selves. In the absence of a federal comparative perspective, the focus of the article is descrip-tive-explorative.
This study investigates the characteristics perceived by English language teachers for setting effective online collaborative writing task goals using task-based langugage teach ing (TBLT) and provides advice to English student-teachers to help them with designing their own online writing task goals in the future. Two rounds of online semi-structured focus-group interviews were conducted with eight interviewees, who were MSc TESOL students in UK universities. The acquired dataset was thematically analysed in order to answer the two research questions of this study. Based on the results from the first round of interviews, we extended the seven general characteristics included in the conventional SMARTER effective-goal-setting framework to adapt to both the online collaborative learning environment and using TBLT, by identifying extra characteristics, three of which were then determined as the key characteristics from the second round of interviews. Accordingly, the measures for implementing these three key characteristics are provided as advice to better realise the increasingly popular online collaborative learning methods using TBLT, hence enhancing the application of the findings to practice.
Dieser Artikel erforscht, wie ein Forschender Lernansatz auf mehreren Ebenen als Prozess von partizipativer Aktionsforschung in der Schulentwicklung genutzt werden kann. Der Lernprozess findet im Klassenzimmer mit Schülerinnen und Schülern statt, aber auch bei den Lehrkräften selbst sowie, nicht zuletzt, beim unterstützenden außerschulischen Forschungsteam. Bei diesem Prozess sollen auf all diesen Ebenen gewisse Kriterien zur Entfaltung gebracht werden, die für forschende, partizipative Lernarrangements typisch sind. Das Ziel der Studie ist es, jene Parameter zu finden, die forschendes, partizipatives Lernen begünstigen, sowie spezifische Methoden zu identifizieren, die Lehrkräfte in ihren Unterrichtsstunden dafür tatsächlich einsetzen. Dies wird einerseits durch die quantitative Analyse von Daten untersucht, die die Lehrkräfte in ihren Klassen bei ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern sammelten, und andererseits durch die qualitative Analyse von Leitfadeninterviews des unterstützenden Forschungsteams mit acht Lehrkräften. Die Analysen der Daten zeigen, dass eine fundierte Kenntnis der Theorie zum Forschenden Lernen, die Unterstützung des Forschungsteams, die Teilnahme der Lehrkräfte an schulinternen Lerngemeinschaften und vor allem auch das Vertrauen, das Lehrkräfte in die Fähigkeiten ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler haben, eine zentrale Rolle bei der Effektivität des forschenden, partizipativen Unterrichtsansatzes spielen. Es zeigt sich, dass professionelle Refexion und Analyse der Aktivitäten im Unterricht schließlich neue, vertiefende Zyklen von Aktionsforschung auslösen, den Prozess der partizipativen Aktionsforschung dadurch vorantreiben und letztlich in einen Schulentwicklungsprozess münden.
Der Beitrag berichtet von einer Studie unter 107 Englischstudierenden in Österreich, die in der ersten Phase des COVID-19 Lockdowns von März bis Juni 2020 durchgeführt wurde. Zur Untersuchung wurden vier Arten von Online Interaktion (learner-self, learner-interfact, learner-content und learner-support) herangezogen (Ally, 2011; Boling, Hough, Krinsky, Saleem, & Stevens, 2012; Zheng, Lin, & Kwon, 2020). In einem Mixed-methods Untersuchungsdesign wurden geschlossene Fragebogenitems mithilfe quantitativer Methoden auf Verteilung und Homogenität der verwendeten Skalen untersucht, während offene Fragestellungen mittels Inhaltsanalyse verarbeitet wurden. Diese parallel durchgeführten Analysen mündeten in eine Triangulation der Daten, welche die folgenden Ergebnisse brachte: Studierende erleben regelmäßige Unterstützung durch die Lehrenden, welche ihre Lehrmaterialien in Lernmaterialien umwandeln, als ihrem Lernerfolg zuträglich. Wichtig erscheint der Einbezug von Aufgaben, welche kognitiv anspruchsvolle Denkprozesse initiieren. Darüber hinaus wurden positive Lernerlebnisse in Bezug auf Unterstützung durch die Lehrpersonen beschrieben, jedoch ein Defizit in Bezug auf kooperative und kollaborative Lernformen unter Studierenden. Der Artikel endet mit Empfehlungen betreffend die Weiterentwicklung von Online Lehre und weiterführenden Forschungsideen.
Background: The present study examined the extent to which grit, self-efficacy, and resilience are present in newly immigrated adolescents and how they differ from the norm population. The data was also examined for gender differences and correlations with the variables.
Methods: The study examined newly immigrated adolescents (n=55) while using RS-13 (Resilience Scale), GSE (General Self-efficacy Scale) and the Grit-Scale. Furthermore, sociodemographic variables like age, religion and gender were collected. The study variables were self-reported and t-tests, asymptotic Mann-Whitney- U -Test and Bravais-Pearson correlation analysis were performed.
Results: The participants showed a lower score regarding grit and general self-efficacy compared to the norm population, but they exhibited a higher resilience-score. Female participants demonstrated a lower resilience-score than male participants. Male participants showed lower general self-efficacy compared to female participants. There were no gender differences with regard to grit. The data revealed a negative correlation between resilience and grit and resilience and general self-efficacy.
Nursing homes are places of high complexity where staff, residents and the institution itself are in an interdependent, non-linear relationship. Therefore phenomena cannot be explained mono-causally and additively. The thesis focuses on the infuence of organizational characteristics on resident outcomes. These characteristics are limited by a number of internal and external infuences, such as legislation, economics, etc. This form of complex causality with its factors of equifnality, assymetry and conjunctural causation is the main reason why nursing homes are considered complex adaptive systems.
Organizational research has been aware of these methodological difficulties for many decades. However, the lack of a method capable of taking them into account has long led to a gap between theory and methods.
With the emergence and development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Charles Ragin in
1987, a way of closing this gap was found. The method is based on the principles of set theory and Mill's methods. With a synthesis of qualitative and quantitative elements, necessary and sufficent conditions for the emergence of an outcome are revealed through the analysis of a truth table. It is shown that although the method is already used in nursing science in several instances, it is still incomplete, erroneous, or not yet used in accordance with newest methodological developments in many places.
The own practical application shows that fundamental influences of organizational characteristics on the residents outcome "fall" can be demonstrated. The comprehensive organizational data from the research project "PiBaWü" were used for this purpose. However, the results also show that without the inclusion of person-intrinsic conditions no exhaustive solution can be found. In view of the high complexity of the phenomenon, this was to be expected. Nevertheless, the method offers decisive advantages for nursing science due to its possibilities to act with low data levels and smaller case numbers. At the same time, the need for theoretically sound assumptions also presents the discipline with obstacles.
As a catalyst for the lack of theory-building in recent decades, it can still have a stimulating effect and be seen as a real progress.