The virus in territory, between perceptions and measures

The handling of the health crisis resulting from the Covid19 pandemic has brought out the discrepancy between a centralizing State, in charge of its population’s safety, that in an emergency health situation applies uniform measures to the entire country, and a population whose everyday experience in its territory doesn’t necessarily reflect the same interpretation of the event and the logic behind the actions taken. We think that it might be interesting to consider the gap that may exist bet..

Handreichung für Ausbilderinnen und Ausbilder im Einzelhandel

Die Handreichung enthält didaktisch-methodische Instrumente für die Vermittlung des Themas "Nachhaltigkeit" in der Ausbildung. Ausbilderinnen und Ausbilder im Einzelhandel lernen, wie sie Felder für nachhaltiges Handeln im Ausbildungsberuf sowie im eigenen Betrieb erkennen und in entsprechende betriebliche Lernziele umwandeln. Jedes Kapitel der Handreichung endet mit einer Zusammenfassung von Lernaktivitäten und Kontrollfragen, ob das Lernziel erreicht wurde. Eine zusätzliche Lern-App unterstützt die Vermittlung der Inhalte

Shades of empire: police photography in German South-West Africa

This article looks at a photographic album produced by the German police in colonial Namibia just before World War I. Late 19th- and early 20th-century police photography has often been interpreted as a form of visual production that epitomized power and regimes of surveillance imposed by the state apparatuses on the poor, the criminal and the Other. On the other hand police and prison institutions became favored sites where photography could be put at the service of the emergent sciences of the human body—physiognomy, anthropometry and anthropology. While the conjuncture of institutionalized colonial state power and the production of scientific knowledge remain important for this Namibian case study, the article explores a slightly different set of questions. Echoing recent scholarship on visuality and materiality the photographic album is treated as an archival object and visual narrative that was at the same time constituted by and constitutive of material and discursive practices within early 20th-century police and prison institutions in the German colony. By shifting attention away from image content and visual codification alone toward the question of visual practice the article traces the ways in which the photo album, with its ambivalent, unstable and uncontained narrative, became historically active and meaningful. Therein the photographs were less informed by an abstract theory of anthropological and racial classification but rather entrenched with historically contingent processes of colonial state constitution, socioeconomic and racial stratification, and the institutional integration of photography as a medium and a technology into colonial policing. The photo album provides a textured sense of how fragmented and contested these processes remained throughout the German colonial period, but also how photography could offer a means of transcending the limits and frailties brought by the realities on the ground.International Bibliography of Social Science

Prospective educators as consumers of empirical research: an authentic assessment approach to make their competencies visible

Abstract Background Educators today have to be able to make current empirical research results usable for everyday practice. Consequently, there are increasing endeavors to develop and assess competencies in consuming empirical research (CCER) on an academic level. However, problems with regard to recruiting and motivating test participants—rooted in the prevalence of low-stakes testing conditions—could limit confidence in the validity of the findings. The current study presents a structure and proficiency level modeling for CCER under high-stakes conditions. Method The sample comprises N = 155 bachelor students of Human Resource Education and Management. The assessment design of the 26 items complied with demanding standards for designing tests (such as Evidence-Centered Design and authenticity). Results The results are as follows: (1) We were able to confirm our expected structural model which consists of two dimensions (‘conceptual competencies’ and ‘statistical competencies’) instead of one overarching dimension. (2) The test items are of a high quality. (3) Three levels of CCER could be defined according to two task characteristics (cognitive processes and complexity) which explain nearly 100% of the prospective educators’ CCER abilities. Conclusion The results of the study show that we succeeded in designing a reliable and valid test instrument for assessing (prospective) VET-educators’ competencies in consuming empirical research

Le virus en territoire, entre perceptions et mesures

International audienceThe handling of the health crisis resulting from the Covid19 pandemic has brought out the discrepancy between a centralizing State, in charge of its population’s safety, that in an emergency health situation applies uniform measures to the entire country, and a population whose everyday experience in its territory doesn’t necessarily reflect the same interpretation of the event and the logic behind the actions taken. We think that it might be interesting to consider the gap that may exist between the objective knowledge of phenomena likely to impact health, as it can be assessed by scientists or experts on a given space, and their representation by the inhabitants within their own living space in a viral pandemic situation. What happens in fact when top down and bottom up meet? How do the assessment of space, safety-first principle, preventive measures, political decisions and population perception link up? This perception is generally based on representations of the disease and its etiology by non-experts, and results from their everyday-life experience in a given territorial space, whereas the assessment by experts resting on quantified data takes into account a dimension that may be considered as further away from the concerns of populations, more distant, colder. This is at times reinforced by the population’s lack of knowledge about the methods used by scientists. This difference between assessment and perception of the same situation may generate feelings of lack of understanding, inhumanity, especially when the scientific or political line is intended to be more objective and becomes more alarmist than the one “expected” or experienced by the populations. Furthermore, whereas public bodies and institutions are in charge of the community, the population often responds with individual strategies. Then the question arises for researchers of the diversity of behaviours at a time when they are looking for invariants - sufficiently reproducible elements in every places of the country.We’ll exemplify this approach with a case that seems to us to be one of the most emblematic and concerns measures adopted for dealing with the bodies of people who died during the epidemic. We will therefore discuss the application of decisions taken between measures and perceptions of risk, between national measures and local expectations.In regard to the potential risk of virus transmission, we’ll highlight the discrepancies between the advice of scientists and experts to limit interactions whilst preserving the burials’ humanist dimensions (Public Health Authorities advice), the political decision of immediately placing the body in a coffin (decree of 2 April 2020), and the families’ lack of understanding about not being able to come and practice the usual funerary rites; we’ll therefore discuss the implementation of decisions taken between risk assessment and risk perception.We will show how a whole set of decisions taken at the strictly national level has exacerbated identity processes between regions and the capital based on opposition rather than complementarity between measures and perceptions.Le virus en territoire, entre perceptions et mesures. La gestion de la crise sanitaire consécutive à la pandémie de la Covid-19 a mis en exergue la discordance entre un Etat centralisateur, en charge de la prévention de sa population, qui en situation sanitaire d’urgence applique des mesures uniformes sur l’ensemble du pays, et la population dont le vécu quotidien dans son territoire ne lui renvoie pas forcément la même lecture de l’évènement et des logiques d’action. Les auteurs (géographe et anthropologues) considèrent qu'il parait intéressant de réfléchir au décalage qui peut exister entre une connaissance objective des phénomènes pouvant impacter la santé, telle qu’elle peut être mesurée par des scientifiques, ou des experts, sur un espace donné, et leurs représentations par les habitants, au sein de leur espace de vie en situation de pandémie virale.Que se passe-t-il, en fait à la rencontre du top down et du bottom up ? Comment s’articulent mesures de l’espace, principe de précaution, mesures de prévention, décisions politiques et perceptions de la population. Ces perceptions sont généralement fondées sur des représentations profanes de la maladie, de son étiologie, et sont issues de leur vécu quotidien dans un espace territorial donné, alors que la mesure des experts qui s’appuie sur des données quantifiées rend compte d’une dimension pouvant être considérée comme plus éloignée des préoccupations des populations, plus distante, plus froide. Cela est parfois renforcé par la méconnaissance de la part de la population des méthodes employées par les scientifiques. Cette différence entre mesure et perception d’une même situation peut générer entre les deux des sentiments d’incompréhension, d’inhumanité, surtout lorsque les discours scientifique ou politique se veulent plus objectifs et deviennent plus alarmistes que celui « attendu » ou perçu par les populations.De plus, alors que les organismes et institutions publiques ont en charge le collectif, la population répond souvent par des stratégies individuelles. Se pose alors pour le décideur la question de la diversité des comportements, alors qu’il est à la recherche d’invariants, d’éléments suffisamment reproductibles qui seraient applicables en tous points du territoire.L'article illustre cette approche à partir d’un exemple qui semble emblématique aux auteurs et qui concerne les mesures adoptées en matière de gestion du corps des personnes décédées pendant l’épidémie. Par rapport au risque potentiel de transmission du virus nous mettrons en évidence les différences entre l’avis des scientifiques et des experts de limiter les interactions tout en conservant les dimensions humanistes des enterrements (avis du HCSP), la décision politique d’une mise en bière immédiate (arrêté du 2 avril 2020), et l’incompréhension des familles de ne pouvoir se déplacer et pratiquer les rites funéraires habituels. L'article discute donc de l’application des décisions prises entre mesures et perceptions du risque, entre mesures nationales et perceptions locales. Les auteurs montrent comment tout un ensemble de décisions prises au niveau strictement national a conduit à des processus identitaires exacerbés entre certaines régions et la capitale s’appuyant sur une opposition plutôt qu’une complémentarité entre mesures et perceptions

Le virus en territoire : entre perceptions et mesures.

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„Labor für hybride Gruppenarbeit“ : Learnings zur Einführung eines innovativen, hybriden und aktivierenden Lernraums

Mit einem gewaltigen Schritt in der Digitalisierung, raschen Fortschritten und erfolgreicher Umsetzung in der Hochschulbildung ist die Rückkehr zu traditionellen Methoden wie Overheadprojektoren keine Option mehr. Gefordert wird eine „Neue Präsenz“, in der das Beste aus beiden Welten – der Online- und der Präsenzlehre – verknüpft werden. Das HigHRoQ-Projekt hat einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Transformation der Lehre an der Technischen Hochschule Rosenheim geleistet, indem innovative Lernräume geschaffen wurden, die innovative Lehre erleichtern. Dazu zählt das „Labor für hybride Gruppenarbeiten“, welches eine Verbindung der Online- und der Präsenzlehre auf vielfältige Art und Weise ermöglicht. Der Raum ist bestens geeignet für kollaborative Gruppenarbeiten und die Förderung von aktiven und kooperativen Lernen. Dabei steht die gleichberechtigte Lehre von Studierenden in Präsenz sowie virtuell zugeschaltete Studierende im Fokus. Die technische Ausstattung unterstützt Dozierende optimal bei der Durchführung hybrider Veranstaltungen. Das Poster gibt einen Einblick in die Raumgestaltung und die Ergebnisse der Begleitforschung. Es werden praxisrelevante Learnings für die Einführung innovativer hybrider und aktivierender Lernräume abgeleitet