Current research projects of the Chair of Business and Vocational Education, in particular media didactics and continuing education
The DigiSelF project (digitalisation as a challenge and innovation in university teaching) was initiated in response to the experiences of distance teaching during the corona pandemic in order to exploit the potential of digital teaching concepts and at the same time counter the dangers of digital distance settings. The aim is to take up the experiences and (further) develop concepts for learning, teaching and testing in complex, hybrid teaching and learning situations. All faculties of the university are involved in 6 work packages. The professorship of Prof Dr Tobias Jenert is responsible for the scientific monitoring, evaluation and transfer. As part of the DigiSelF project, the chair of Prof. Dr. H.-Hugo Kremer is working with colleagues from the Department of Psychology to develop a programme of student Culture Fellows.
In addition to a (constant) discourse on change in studying and teaching, distance learning has also shown new ways. An increasingly heterogeneous student body calls for the individualisation of learning and study opportunities. It is also evident that the demands for self-organisation and self-management are increasing. Against this background, disciplinary cultures and implicit disciplinary practices are relevant. These characterise everyday study life and can make everyday study life more difficult for students from different groups and lead to obstacles and inequalities. This is where the present work package comes in. The core of the Culture Fellow programme is the implicit aspects of subject-specific academic practices.
As part of the training of experienced students to become Culture Fellows, an examination of subject-specific particularities and challenges in the introductory phase of studies takes place. On the basis of comprehensive training, the Culture Fellows accompany events and learning opportunities in the introductory phase of studies. The identification of and/or sensitisation to implicit specialist practices is central to training and deployment. In their role as mediators, Culture Fellows act as intermediaries between lecturers and students by jointly reflecting on moments of cultural irritation and discussing implicit knowledge.
This concept is intended to provide impetus for the further development of study programmes and implement adaptation as a reciprocal, lived process.
Team of the work package | H.-Hugo Kremer |
links | https://www.uni-paderborn.de/universitaet/digiself |
The cevet, represented by the Chair of Business and Vocational Education, has been working on issues of inclusive vocational training for several years. This experience forms the basis for the cooperation with Lebenshilfe für Menschen mit geistiger oder anderer Behinderung Kreisverband Paderborn e.V., as part of the project "Entwicklung von Angeboten und Unterstützungsleistungen im Bereich Arbeit zur Beschäftigung von Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung und Menschen mit komplexem Unterstützungsbedarf auf dem allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt", funded by AktionMensch over five years.
The aim of Lebenshilfe Kreisverband Paderborn e.V. in this project is to develop offers and support services for employment on the local, general labour market, particularly for people with intellectual disabilities and people with complex support needs. Lebenshilfe e.V. would like to prepare, plan and implement this path together with the people involved, using and further developing participatory methods. With cooperation partners such as the Paderborn University, employers are to be sensitised and won over in order to facilitate access to the general labour market for people with disabilities and to bring them into appropriate, person-oriented employment relationships. To this end, a long-term pool of companies from various sectors and companies in the local Paderborn district area will be established and support services tailored to the target group will be designed. Another objective of Lebenshilfe e.V. is to inform the aforementioned target groups about the opportunities for participation in work.
On the part of the Chair of Business and Vocational Education, the objectives of this cooperation are to gain knowledge about the local labour market in the context of employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities and people with complex support needs as well as the corresponding success and framework conditions from the perspective of local employers. A further aim is to identify the need for further education and training in this context on the part of companies and to develop appropriate formats. These objectives are accompanied by an interest in adequate workplace analyses for this target group and in support-related, customisable documentation formats for the school-to-work transition phase and for further support in the new working environment. The scientific support responds to the findings and questions that arise during the course of the project.
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Link to | Cevet |
The 'Training Preparation Research Centre' (3iAV) is the result of previous research and development projects, in particular the Innovation Arena 3i, InBig and QBi. The long-standing cooperation with the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MSB NRW) and the district governments is being utilised and further expanded for the activities of the 3iAV research centre. This is reflected in particular in the development and provision of further training programmes for specialist staff involved in training preparation. Here, it is possible to respond to current needs in these training programmes and incorporate practical problems into research activities. The spirit of the 3 "i "s - individualsupport, inclusiveeducation and social integration- remains at the centre of this.
Cooperation with vocational colleges from all over North Rhine-Westphalia can be established as practice partners via the aforementioned partnerships with the MSB NRW and the district governments in NRW. The selected vocational colleges are actively involved in the development of various products through the location-specific trial loops of the respective framework concept, which represents mutual added value. In this case, products can be, for example, location and training programme-specific projects, overarching continuing education formats or methods for skills assessment. Via the district governments and the MSB NRW, interim development statuses are discussed with other practical stakeholders, discussion results are incorporated into further development and dissemination and transfer of the results are ensured.
Contacts | Dr Heike Kundisch Prof Dr H.-Hugo Kremer |
Link to | Cevet |
Self-staging practices asAccess to a self-determined, multimodal assessment of competences for young people with educational and other disadvantages
A research and development project as part of the 'Inclusive Education' funding programme in the 'Support-related diagnostics in inclusive education' funding area of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
SeiP focuses on young people with disadvantages and/or disabilities at the transition from school to work. The project focuses on the aspect of support-orientated skills assessment. In SeiP, this is orientated towards strengths and resources and can be integrated into the everyday work of educational staff. The principles of self-direction and self-determination are central. Multimodal, i.e. in particular open and creative self-presentation and assessment formats, should enable young people to explore their strengths on the one hand and make them visible on the other. Through these two steps, the skills assessment itself becomes a development and learning process. We support teachers and company stakeholders in the documentation, reception and utilisation of the results via an integrated further training format. Ultimately, we are concerned with the meaningful integration of the self-staging formats into learning and development processes as well as their subsequent processing for processes of transition into training and work and thus for professional and social participation.
The project is being implemented in cooperation with the chairs of Prof. Dr. H.Hugo Kremer (Chair of Business and Vocational Education, in particular Media Didactics and Continuing Education, Paderborn University), Prof. Dr. Désirée Laubenstein (Chair of Special Educational Support and Inclusion with a Focus on Emotional and Social Development, Paderborn University) and Prof. Dr. Petra Frehe-Halli (Chair of Special Education and Inclusion with a Focus on Emotional and Social Development, Paderborn University). Dr Petra Frehe-Halliwell (Chair of Business Education at Friedrich Schiller University Jena) as well as in cooperation with stakeholders from district governments and vocational colleges from North Rhine-Westphalia and Lebenshilfe für Menschen mit geistiger oder anderer Behinderung Kreisverband Paderborn e.V. (Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual or other disabilities) .
Research support for the innovation competition "Shaping the future - innovations for excellent vocational education and training (InnoVET)"
ITiB aims to determine cross-project requirement structures in the course of a digital transformation and to develop competence profiles for training personnel in vocational education and training. To this end, the innovation and development processes of 17 pilot projects that have been developing and testing innovative qualification programmes for vocational education and training since 2020 as part of the InnoVET innovation competition are being examined. The concepts are being developed under the motto "Shaping the future - innovations for excellent vocational education and training" and are being funded by the BMBF with a total volume of 82 million euros until 2024. In this context, ITiB's research focuses on the design of innovation processes and their transfer as well as a fundamental understanding of the corresponding underlying processes. Findings, concepts and prototype developments from the InnoVET projects are to be made accessible for vocational education and training as a whole. Among other things, the approach of design-based research will be followed, focussing on the identification of relevant design features in development projects, the (co-)design of innovation and transfer processes and the generation of design-based findings.
The ITiB project is jointly supported by the professors of the Department of Business Education at Paderborn University. Prof. Dr H.-Hugo Kremer (business and vocational education, in particular media didactics and continuing education), Prof. Dr Marc Beutner (business education and evaluation research), Prof. Dr Tobias Jenert (higher education didactics and development) and Prof. Dr Peter F. E. Sloane (business and social education) are all involved in the research project with their respective expertise and thus contribute an extremely broad background of experience with regard to vocational and business education transfer processes. The operational project design and implementation is carried out by a junior research group anchored in the Department of Business Education, which is cooperatively led by Dr Desiree Daniel-Söltenfuß and Dr Marie-Ann Kückmann.