Erwerb von berufsrelevanten Kompetenzen in Mentoring-Tandems: eine Win-win-Situation für Lehramtsstudierende und Schüler/innen

Auf Basis von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und eigenen Lehrerfahrungen entwickelten die Autorinnen eine einführende fachdidaktische Lehrveranstaltung, die Mentoring-Tandems integriert, um von Anfang an komplexe, berufsrelevante Handlungskompetenzen aufzubauen, die nur in enger Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis möglich sind. Der Artikel beschreibt das Konzept und gibt Einblick in die Evaluierungsergebnisse. 19.01.2016 | Michaela Rückl & Barbara Mackinger (Salzburg

Höher und weiter hinaus durch Mentoring - Projekt Sprungbrett. Förderung von Bildungs-durchlässigkeit und Innovation in der Lehrer/innen-Ausbildung durch Mentoring

Mentoring kann eine erfolgreiche Intervention sein, um strukturell benachteiligte Schüler/innen auf ihrem Bildungsweg zu unterstützen. An der Universität Salzburg startete 2012 das Projekt "Sprungbrett - zusammen spielend Talente fördern", welches angehende Lehrende zu Mentorinnen und Mentoren, die Schülerinnen und Schülern (Mentees) als Rollenmodell und Begleiter/innen zur Seite stehen, ausbildet. Darüber hinaus werden die Mentorinnen und Mentoren von Supervisorinnen und Supervisoren begleitet. Unter psychologischer Anleitung lernen die Mentorinnen und Mentoren, die individuellen Fähigkeiten und Ziele der Schüler/innen zu erkennen, zu fördern und ihnen Zugang zu neuen Lernumgebungen zu eröffnen. Handlungsleitend für das Projekt sind in der Mentoringforschung identifizierte psychologische Moderatoren, die den Erfolg des Mentorings für die Mentees sicherstellen. Dieser wird anhand von Prä-Post-Vergleichen sowie einer Kontrollgruppe, die eine alternative Intervention erhält, evaluiert. 14.02.2014 | Barbara Mackinger, Eva Jonas & Sandra Sittenthaler (Salzburg

When Advisors’ True Intentions Are in Question. How Do Bank Customers Cope with Uncertainty in Financial Consultancies?

When making financial decisions bank customers are confronted with two types of uncertainty: first, return on investments is uncertain and there is a risk of losing money. Second, customers cannot be certain about their financial advisor’s true intentions. This might decrease customers’ willingness to cooperate with advisors. However, the uncertainty management model and fairness heuristic theory predict that in uncertain situations customers are willing to cooperate with financial advisors when they perceive fairness. In the current study, we investigated how perceived fairness in the twofold uncertain situations increased people’s intended future cooperation with an advisor. We asked customers of financial consultancies about their experienced uncertainty regarding both the investment decision and the advisor’s intentions. Moreover, we asked them about their perceived fairness, as well as their intention to cooperate with the advisor in the future. A three-way moderation analysis showed that customers who faced high uncertainty regarding the investment decision and high uncertainty regarding the advisor’s true intentions indicated the lowest intended cooperation with the advisor but high fairness increased their cooperation. Interestingly, when people were only uncertain about the advisor’s intentions (but certain about the decision) they indicated less cooperation than when they were only uncertain about the decision (but certain about the advisor’s intentions). A mediated moderation analysis revealed that this relationship was explained by customers’ lower trust in their advisors

Identität in Zeiten des kulturellen Wandels. Psychologische und soziale Folgen von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

In 2015, 10 percent of the world’s population lived in poverty, on less than $1.90 a day. They suffer from lack of consumption and access to education and basic utilities. Governments and organizations strive to improve their living conditions by implementing different programs in low-income nations. I shortly describe three examples of such programs and their psychological impacts: (1) a laptop program for children envisioned to increase their educational opportunities, (2) microfinance services for poor people designed to help people develop their income-generating activity through training and micro-loans and (3) a small medium-sized enterprise development program designed to increase employment levels and foster sustainable development and peace. In all three cases, the long-term goal is to help people escape extreme poverty. The effectiveness of such programs is currently heavily debated in science and politics. In this context, I will describe how different aspects of identity are studied in social psychology and how these may change. In sum, the findings point to the development of an identity in which self-determined and agentic action is becoming more important. However, they also show how the traditional embeddedness in family and groups changes. The latter will have a major impact on how identities change in societies undergoing rapid economic growth. Future research should investigate these long-term and possibly less positive consequences