Bastian Pelka

Technische Universität Dortmund | TUD · Social Research Centre (SFS)

Jennifer Eckhardt, Dr.Christoph Kaletka und Dr. Bastian Pelka arbeiten an der Sozialfor-schungsstelle, Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften, der TU Dortmund. Ihr Forschungsgebiet ist „digitale Teilhabe“. Sie beschäftigen sich mit Fragen der Personal-und Organisationsentwicklung der Sozialwirtschaft in der digitalen Transformation. Dabei nehmen sie die Per...

In this paper we explore gender issues in the maker movement using four different methods of data analysis: standardised questionnaires, analysis of makerspaces’ social media, statistical analysis of machine use and the coding of interviews and focus groups. The objective is to give a voice to female makers and makerspace managers, looking at the m...

Der Aufsatz stellt Ansätze vor, mit denen Einrichtungen der Wohlfahrt ihre pädagogische Arbeit digitalisieren können.

Im Zuge der Digitalisierung findet eine Verlagerung vieler Lebenswelten in digitale Medien statt. Bestimmte Personengruppen profitieren davon jedoch weniger als andere. Hier setzt seit 2010 die europaweite Kampagne „Get Online Week“ an. Studierende der Rehabilitationspädagogik der TU Dortmund beteiligten sich im März 2019 zum fünften Mal in Folge a...

The Maker Movement has raised great expectations towards its potential for tackling social inequalities by mediating technology-related skills to everybody. Are maker spaces new players for social inclusion in digital societies? How can this potential impact be framed? While scientific discourse has so far identified broad value and impact dimensio...

Purpose People with disabilities (PWD) produce aids using 3D printing in an inclusive MakerSpace in Germany. This study aims to demonstrate the pathways enabling people with disabilities to be “makers” of aids, creating a “medium-quality market”. Design/methodology/approach This study conceptualizes the foundation of the MakerSpace as a social inn...

Visions of a society for all are closely intertwined with the question of how to develop inclusive communities. Social innovations are able to facilitate inclusion and catalyse the improvement of participation opportunities, especially in urban settings, as this is the place where positive and negative transformation becomes noticeable first. New l...

The problems society faces today are increasingly complex and rooted in likewise complex socio-technical systems. Unfortunately, the structures meant to face these challenges are not suitably equipped. There is a mismatch between the need and the capacity to respond. Design methods and approaches are now being employed to help capacitate cities and...

The article describes and evaluates a local campaign to support digital skills of marginalized persons. Due to the increasing digitization which is taking place all over the world, it becomes necessary to support the expansion of people’s digital competences and close the “digital gap” that causes multiple disadvantages for certain groups of people...

The article demonstrates by the example of persons with complex needs how to open up 3D-printing and peer production to everybody. It describes the requirements for accessibility and a competence-based scalable approach that empowers persons with complex needs to produce prototypes of products – such as assistive tools. In addition to discussing th...

The article demonstrates how 3-D-printing can be used in an appropriate pedagogical setting to empower people with complex disabilities to design and produce assistive tools. It refers to the SELFMADE project, which is linked to the research and practice of assistive technology in special education with a focus on participation in everyday life/lei...

This article addresses the question of under which conditions established social innovations aiming at improving social inclusion may be transferred from one specific environmental context to another. Through the example of an in-depth case-study on the PIKSL laboratories in Germany, the authors develop insights into the importance of innovation-fr...

Die Bekämpfung von Jugendarbeitslosigkeit stellt momentan eine entscheidende Herausforderung für die Institutionen der Europäischen Union dar. Dabei besteht Einigkeit, dass die Fähigkeit, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IUK) für Berufssuche, Ausbildung und Berufsausübung zu nutzen (im Folgenden als „digital skills“ bezeichnet), den St...

The paper exploits an extensive quantitative case mapping to blend three strands of research: First, social innovation is considered as an approach to leverage inclusive societies. Secondly, ICT is understood as a means to empower people with activity limitations; and thirdly, the availability and accessibility of societal structures is regarded as...

Digital networks are playing an important role in co-operation and learning today. Facilitating distance communication and co-operation is one of the new tasks going along with ‘working in the cloud’ in many contexts. What is presented in this chapter for the educational sector applies in very similar ways to networking and co-operation processes i...

The chapter explains that the book is for people who in some way are responsible for successful co-operation in projects, in and across organisations or networks of organisations.

This chapter presents the essence of many years of facilitating experience with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) going abroad, how they prepare internationalisation strategies and implement them with the support of a facilitator using the tools presented in this book and other more specific ones.

This chapter provides the basic concepts of a philosophy of lateral or non-hierarchical leadership; it explains the roles of moderating and facilitating, the significance of visualisation and responsibility for successful communication and co-operation; it introduces the basic concepts of learning and competence, organisation and co-operation, mana...

This chapter shows how becoming a facilitator happened in the original background project SME Actor and in a number of different projects dealing with online learning and teaching, i.e. e-facilitating.

This chapter introduces into the didactics of action learning and presents a curriculum with five modules for the training facilitators.

This chapter provides some fifty tools for improving communication, collecting information, planning and managing projects, analysing problems and preparing decision making.

The paper links latest insights from the field of social innovation research to the role of digital technologies and their potential to better address special needs. Therefore, it proposes a model to identify drivers and barriers for a broader use of digital social innovations in transformative processes towards inclusion. The paper develops a mode...

This easy to read booklet provides insights into SIMPACT's main findings, 1. The Economic Dimensions of SI 2. Towards a Typology of SI 3. Towards Sustainable SI Business Models 4. A Conducive Environment for SI - Regional Innovation Ecosystem 5. Spread and Diffusion of SI 6. How Policy can Stimulate, Resource and Sustain SI 7. Measuring SI - Tool...

The paper exploits an extensive quantitative case mapping to blend three strands of research: First, social innovation will be considered as an approach to improve and/or guarantee social inclusion for people with activity limitations. Secondly, ICT will be understood as a means to empower people with activity limitations; and thirdly, the needs of...

In an effort to better understand the various forms of social innovation, mapping has become a common and widely applied method for gaining insights into social innovation practices. The transdisciplinary nature of social innovation research has led to a plurality of distinct approaches and methods. Given the increasing interest in social innovatio...

Boundaries defining and shaping the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET): Systems: Socio-culturally different VET systems have evolved along conceptual lines. The comparison of different skill formation systems and governance of VET systems are on the one hand of reflexive and on the other hand of practical importance in the context of...

Digital exclusion is an increasingly pressing challenge of the knowledge society. Telecentres accept the challenge by providing internet access and raising the competences of the digitally excluded in local communities. This paper reflects the role of e-facilitators, the persons who work in telecentres, and the diverse set of qualifications they ne...

Abstract. The post-industrial innovation system with its distinct focus on social innovation allows for theoretical and conceptual connections between innovation research and new fields of social practice. In this article we elaborate on the potential of social innovation and especially digital social innovation to tackle digitally excluded persons...

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_4 The paper differentiates three dimensions of access for eInclusion instruments: Firstly, digital media are understood as environments that offer multiple channels for interaction between persons with disabilities and their environment. This dimension is challenged by barriers that hinder...

This paper presents our experience in developing an online curriculum dedicated to promoting the use of social media in an educational context on a European scale. We describe ‘social media based learning’ as a new form of using old technology. Our focus is not based on the technology itself but rather the engagement with technology that positions...

http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2013/common/download/Abstract_pdf/299-ITL58-ABS-Cavicchiolo-ICT2013.pdf The use of social media for learning in schools is becoming more and more widespread and reflected in the European context. But existing studies and l earning material repositories predominantly consider social media as a new technology...

http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-3-642-32878-7 Inspired by recent critical social and economic developments – and their most visible eruptions in the Arab world, Spain and Greece –, which demonstrate that there is a relatively low barrier of entrance for individuals and groups to adopt social media for virt...

http://www.proceedings.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/eirp/article/view/1362/1308 The paper highlights the potential of blended learning spaces (telecentres, public internet centres etc.) making use of social media based curricula as a means for fostering eInclusion as a challenge for European policy. It differentiates three dimensions in which blende...

http://vetnet.mixxt.org/networks/files/file.111156 This article deals with the rise of a new profession of social workers at the interjunction of ICT teaching and community management and addresses the need for eInclusion support in Europe.

Bastian Pelka stellte ein Beispiel eines Seminars vor, in dem Studierende ein wiki über die Arbeit mit einem wiki erstellten und dabei die Innovation eines wiki und der Arbeit an „user generated content“ reflektierten. Dabei erläuterte er seinen Seminaransatz vor dem Hintergrund der Betrachtung von Social Media/Web 2.0 als soziale Innovation. Die K...

This paper raises the question whether Web 2.0 can be seen as a technological or a social innovation and which interdependencies exist between these two innovative aspects of the phenomenon. For that purpose, the definition of Web 2.0 as a tag cloud (for example given in Wikipedia) or as a difference in comparison to a ‘Web 1.0’ is revisited, chall...

Seit 2004 präsentiert sich das ‚Web 2.0‘ als neue Entwicklung, die – folgt man jeweils euphorischen oder kritischen Stimmen – nicht mehr und nicht weniger bietet als die endgültige Durchsetzung wahrer Demokratie oder: gar nichts Neues. Beide Perspektiven haben übrigens nachvollziehbare Argumente; doch dazu später. Fakt ist: Der Begriff des Web 2.0...

Professional standards have in recent times been damaged by high-profile embarassments such as the Hunzinger affair. This paper argues the need for qualifications which will reinforce and validate the structure of PR and corporate communications in Germany and maintain a high level of academic focus within the sector. Note: Downloadable document is...

Die schriftliche Befragung der Hochschullehrenden123 zeigt: Fast 80 % aller befragten Hochschullehrenden geben an, elektronische wissenschaftliche Informationen häufig via Internet zu suchen.124 Zwei Drittel der Befragten recherchieren dabei unter anderem über die wenig anspruchsvollen, unübersichtlichen und ungesicherten kommerziellen Suchmaschine...