EBook proceedings of the ESERA 2011 conference : science learning and citizenship

This ebook contains fourteen parts according to the strands of the ESERA 2011 conference. Each part is co-edited by one or two persons, most of them were strand chairs. All papers in this ebook correspond to accepted communications during the ESERA conference that were reviewed by two referees. Moreover the co-editors carried out a global reviewing of the papers.ESERA - European Science Education Research Associatio

An evaluation of the challenges of Multilingualism in Data Warehouse development

In this paper we discuss Business Intelligence and define what is meant by support for Multilingualism in a Business Intelligence reporting context. We identify support for Multilingualism as a challenging issue which has implications for data warehouse design and reporting performance. Data warehouses are a core component of most Business Intelligence systems and the star schema is the approach most widely used to develop data warehouses and dimensional Data Marts. We discuss the way in which Multilingualism can be supported in the Star Schema and identify that current approaches have serious limitations which include data redundancy and data manipulation, performance and maintenance issues. We propose a new approach to enable the optimal application of multilingualism in Business Intelligence. The proposed approach was found to produce satisfactory results when used in a proof-of-concept environment. Future work will include testing the approach in an enterprise environmen

Vom Individuum her denken

Bernd-Joachim Ertelt hat in der akademischen Lehre und Forschung zur Berufsberatung national sowie international Maßstäbe gesetzt. Auch die Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit hat er maßgeblich geprägt. Der Sammelband mit deutsch-, englisch- und französischsprachigen Fachbeiträgen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis gliedert sich in drei Teile. Im Abschnitt zu theoretischen Aspekten der Berufs- und Bildungsberatung liegt der Fokus auf Grundsatzfragen des beraterischen Handelns, verschiedenen Beratungsansätzen und der Bedeutung von Beratung für Personen und in der Arbeitswelt. Im zweiten Teil diskutieren die Autor:innen aktuelle Entwicklungen und Forschungsergebnisse der Berufs- und Bildungsberatung. Persönliche Hommagen und Erinnerungen an Ertelts Verdienste runden die Festschrift zu seinem 80. Geburtstag ab

Learning through workplace experiences in dual higher education

It is not only in Germany that an increasing importance of dual study programmes can be observed. However, little is known about competence development during studies and the effects of practical phases. Against this background, the practical phases of two dual Bachelor’s programmes at the University of Applied Labour Studies (UALS) are being analysed in more detail and an overview of the research project is given