Am Montag, den 13. November 2017 wird eine Fachtagung mit dem Titel „Schulen im Wettbewerb? Profilbildung, hidden ranking, Chancengleichheit“ in der Bettinaschule in Frankfurt am Main stattfinden. Nähere Informationen sowie ein genaues Programm folgen in den kommenden Wochen auf dem Blog. Quellen Bildnachweis: ...
Tablets instead of textbooks? Digital versions of textbooks are already available from certain publishing houses. They are not yet widely used in the classroom, despite the majority of German citizens seeing clear advantages in the use of digital textbooks – according to a recent survey (link in German) of 2,194 people from 14...
In the current issue of the pedagogical journal PÄDAGOGIK (10/2017) , Maret Nieländer , Tim Hartung and Rocco Lehmann have published the article ‘Schulbücher zum Unterrichtsgegenstand machen’ [Making Textbooks a Classroom Topic]. Using the Edumeres portal , the article introduces three ways to use textbooks in...
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Veranstaltung: 01.11.2017
- 03.11.2017
Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden, Deutschland
The International Symposium brings together leading academics and interested attendees for presentation, discussion, and collaborative networking in the fields of spatial sciences, environmental studies, geography, cartography, GIScience, urban planning, architecture, which relate to investigations of settlements and...
Governments around the world have committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030. The Agenda aims to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. Responsible for implementing this goal is UNESCO, whose Global Education Monitoring Report...
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Veranstaltung: 26.10.2017
- 28.10.2017
Universität Lissabon, Lissabon, Portugal
The main theme of the symposium — Integrating Knowledge and Understanding in Geography Education — (October 26-28, 2017) will be an opportunity to reflect upon the challenges that geography education faces in many parts of the world. Among other topics, the symposium intends to discuss the role of geography in the...
A survey by Der Spiegel of the federal states’ cultural ministries revealed that Germany’s primary schools are currently short about 2000 teachers. According to the Ministry of Schools in Düsseldorf, there is an especially acute shortage in North Rhine-Westphalia, where 926 positions were not filled by the beginning of the...
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Veranstaltung: 19.10.2017
- 22.10.2017
Hallstatt, Österreich
Das Generalthema Momentum-Kongress in diesem Jahr ist „Vielfalt“. Im Zentrum des Austausches stehen die zehn Tracks, unter denen der Track #9 am interessantesten für die Bildungsforscher sein dürfte. Es wird in ihm der Rahmen geboten, verschiedene Zugänge zu Vielfalt in der Bildung zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren sowie mögliche...
For the sixth time, the Erich-Kästner-Schule in Bochum (recognised as a ‘School without Racism’ for nearly ten years) has won the Unfallkasse NRW’s School Development Prize ‘Good and Healthy School’ for the promotion of health and prevention. Among other areas, the school was honoured for its individual attention to...
The Center for Open Education at University of Minnesota is offering a digital platform for open university textbooks in cooperation with the Open Textbook Network. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published and licensed to be freely used, adapted and distributed in the accordance with the Open Access concept. ...