Isolationsmomente zu Beginn des Studiums

Im Rahmen eines Seminars zu subjektwissenschaftlichen Forschungszugängen haben wir uns mit der Kollektiven Erinnerungsarbeit (KEA) auseinandergesetzt. Das in diesem Artikel präsentierte Forschungsprojekt basiert auf zwei Teilgruppen, die zu unterschiedlichen Themen forschten, aber Überschneidungen haben, weswegen sie hier zusammengesetzt wurden. Die Themen waren Ausschlussmechanismen im universitären Kontext und Schwierigkeiten am Studienbeginn. Besonders im Fokus standen dabei das Empfinden von Alleinsein und die Sorge, allein zu bleiben, die eng mit den Herausforderungen des Zurechtfindens und einer möglichen Überforderung durch neue Situationen verbunden sind. Das Ziel war es, nicht nur persönliche Erfahrungen des Ausschlusses und der Schwierigkeiten am Studienbeginns sichtbar zu machen, sondern auch die dahinterliegenden Strukturen und Dynamiken zu verstehen und zu hinterfragen. Die Ergebnisse der jeweiligen Arbeiten sollen einerseits einen Beitrag zur Sensibilisierung von Überforderung durch neue Situationen im Studium leisten, sowie ein tieferes Verständnis für den eigenen Möglichkeitsraum und Anstöße für weiterführende Forschung bieten

Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung und Selbstregulation der Motivation im Zusammenhang mit der Nutzung digitaler Endgeräte in der Sekundarstufe I

Mit digitalen Endgeräten ist es Schüler:innen der Sekundarstufe I möglich, an der Gestaltung von Medien im Unterricht der Digitalen Grundbildung mitzuwirken. Die Untersuchung zielt darauf ab, die Interaktion zwischen digitalen Endgeräten und der für die Entwicklung von Kompetenzen hilfreichen Fähigkeit zur Selbstregulation zu quantifizieren. Um die Frage nach den Unterschieden in der Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung und der Selbstregulation der Motivation in Abhängigkeit von verwendeten Endgeräten zu beantworten, wurde eine Querschnittstudie mit Daten aus Mittelschulen und Gymnasien durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass für den Ankauf von digitalen Endgeräten, welche Schüler:innen zur Verfügung stehen sollen, ein weiteres Auswahlkriterium herangezogen werden kann.Digital devices enable lower secondary school students to participate in the creation of media in digital education lessons. The aim of the study is to quantify the interaction between the use of digital devices and the ability to self-regulate, which is helpful for the development of skills. To answer the research question of the extent to which differences in self-efficacy and self-regulation of motivation depend on the devices used, a cross-sectional study was conducted, collecting data from secondary schools and high schools. The results indicate that a further selection criterion can be used for the purchase of digital devices available to students

書評：: Andreas Fulda 著《Germany and China: How Entanglement Un-dermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security》

Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security By Andreas Fulda London etc.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781350357044Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security By Andreas Fulda London etc.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 256 pp. ISBN: 978135035704

Collective Effervescence as Self-Organization and Enaction

Collective effervescence is a group experience of intense collective affect. It includes feelings of being “swept away” and “becoming one with the crowd” and often a sensation of “awe” or being in touch with the sacred. Empirical research demonstrates that collective effervescence is connected to several short- and long-term psychological and physical benefits. The growing field of 4E cognition (enactive, embodied, embedded, and extended) takes cognition to be inherently social and affective. Yet surprisingly, despite the social, embodied, dynamic, and affective nature of collective effervescence, there is currently no 4E account of collective effervescence. I integrate the empirical literature on collective effervescence into 4E cognition. I argue, that whenever there are high degrees of self-organizing bodily activity in a human crowd under the proper boundary conditions, there is collective effervescence. Collective effervescence is the experience of undergoing high degrees of self-organization in a crowd. Taking a 4E dynamic systems approach to collective effervescence demystifies the phenomenon and opens it up for potential use in public policy and therapy.

Women, convents and divorce in early modern Spain

There are archival records of women in the Golden Age seeking divorce from their husbands while living in a convent, which may seem unusual today. So I am interested in exploring why a woman in the early modern period would enter a convent and seek a divorce from there. I present identities, different examples and motivations that help to understand this dynamic

Scanning texts and orthographic proofreading as a measure for cognitve control? : A perspective on cognitive control in cognitive writing models

Many cognitive models of the (academic) writing process integrate components of cognitive control, a concept which has mainly been scrutinized through psychological laboratory experiments. The question arises whether results obtained from such experiments are validly transferable to such models (i.e. if they are ecologically valid). In this perspective paper, I highlight similarities and differences between 1. tasks used to measure components of cognitive control (Stroop Word Colour (Switching) Task) and 2. activities that form part of the (academic) writing process (proofreading for orthographic errors and scanning a text for a keyword). Drawing from this comparison, I subsequently argue 1. for the ecological validity of the Stroop Word Colour (Switching) Task with respect to these activities and 2. encourage a stronger consideration of the ecological validity of experiments measuring components of cognitive control to better understand their relationship with activities relevant for the (academic) writing process. A better understanding of this relationship could further lead to the development of strategies to overcome difficulties in (academic) writing related to cognitive control

a study in something beyond yourself: Eine Fanfiction aus dem Proseminar

An empty house. Dark, the windows broken and blocked by torn-out floorboards. A house held together by itself. Is it working? Does it matter? The house isn\u27t real, anyways. Well, not truly. The house is you but you are yourself and yourself lies within the charred, spindle-bone remains of a place you witnessed go up in flames, long before you took the matchstick in hand. Years before. An entire lifetime ago; a whole life ago

The Ottoman Judge and the Undead: A Judicial Order to Stake Vampires

The Ottoman Judge and the Undead: A Judicial Order to Stake Vampire

Fanart: Whang Zhi (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty)

Ein Fanart einer Teilnehmer*in des Proseminars

All for a Silver Vase? Osman Hamdi Bey’s Indignant Resignation Letter from the Ottoman Imperial Museum

All for a Silver Vase? Osman Hamdi Bey’s Indignant Resignation Letter from the Ottoman Imperial Museu