Begriffklärungen rund um das Thema Virtualität und Virtualisierung.
The author describes the emergence of the „virtual organisation“ concept as a tendency towards customization of products on the one hand and the development of a suitable technological basis on the other hand. Networking is discussed as a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite. First and foremost, the process of virtualisation requires changes in the organisational structure of companies that may go as far as a redefinition of the relationship between employees who, if forced into a role of …
Virtuality is not the essence of computer-based learning environments: any learning environment contains elements of virtuality in so far as it concerns itself with representations of reality. Even though the difference between computer-based and traditional settings in this respect is one of degree rather than of substance, conditions at the extreme end of the virtuality scale call for a change in learning arrangements. The authors explore the consequences for learners – self-direction, critic…
Rief die technologische Weiterentwicklung in den USA nach anfänglicher Euphorie für elektronisches distance learning bald Skepsis – vor allem auf Grund nur marginaler Lernerfolge – hervor, so ist seit etwa fünf Jahren auf College- und Universitätsebene eine breite Akzeptanz von e-learning in Kombination mit face-to-face-Lernarrangements zu verzeichnen. Landesweit wird der Anteil aller Belegungen für Online-Kurse bis 2009 auf 31 Prozent prognostiziert. Allerdings zeigen sich heute vor allem priv…
Der Autor berichtet über ein von der EU gefördertes Projekt zum Thema Jugendarbeitslosigkeit, das unter internationaler Beteilung von sechs Länder durchgeführt wird. Kernfrage ist, welche Kompetenzen bei Jugendlichen gefördert werden und welche Bedürfnisstrukturen junge arbeitlose Erwachsene haben.
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Virtualität und Virtualisierung.
The article is the answer of the (female) author to three questions for the understanding, the development and the most important tasks of gender democracy now and in the future. The actual development of gender democracy as a political target is seen critically by Barbara Stiegler similar to the view of Peter Döge. But at the field of education gender democracy has to be understood as a target in general. Gender mainstreaming as an integrative educational task and issue presupposes gender …
Gender mainstreaming is gaining relevance in gender and equality policy. But gender democracy means not only equal rights and chances of men and women but also the depart from hegemonial virility as a dominant social structural principle. This political target is far from being reached. Education under the perspective of gender democracy should be orientated at the “new man”. – The article is the answer of the (male) author to three questions for the understanding, the development and the most …
