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This article examines the historical contribution of the German Informatics Society (GI) to the establishment of computer education in German schools. It highlights the role of societal interests, international developments, public and professional debates, and technological change in the GI’s educational policy recommendations. The historical sour...
Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes betrachten aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive die historische Dynamik um Entstehung, Organisation und Transformation von Schulfächern. Betrachtet werden daher vor allem Materialitäten des Unterrichts, z.B. Lehrmaterialien, Unterrichtsmedien und der Modus des Umgangs mit Wissen – Wissenspraktiken, die die Fachlichkei...
As a result of the computerization of various workplaces and the increased presence of micro- computers in society, several countries around the globe took steps in the 1980s to introduce computers into schools. In certain countries, such as East Germany (GDR) and Sweden, this meant developing a purpose-built computer centrally to raise pupils’ lev...
In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the computerization of education from a historical perspective, by attending closely to the different actors involved – such as politic...
The European Community (EC), afraid of lagging behind the United States and Japan in the technology race, developed a series of strategies in the 1980s and 1990s to enhance their position in the field of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). One key strategy was the training and retraining of citizens to deal with the shortage of a...
As new information technology became more prevalent in more sectorsof society and industry during the 1970s and 1980s, people were confronted withnew skill requirements in their professional as well as their personal lives. The concept of computer literacy as the basic skills and knowledge needed by everyoneto participate fully in society and the e...
The Community Action Programme for Education and Training for Technology (COMETT) played a key role in paving the way for increased cooperation between the member states of the European Community (EC) in the field of education and in the promotion of intra-Europe mobility. In this article, COMETT is considered as a non-traditional education and tra...
In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie in den 1970er-Jahren anhand der konkreten Bearbeitung des Problems eines drohenden „Numerus clausus“ bildungs- und hochschulpolitische Regelungskompetenzen zwischen Bund und Kantonen in der Schweiz neu ausgehandelt wurden. Während der Phase der Bildungsexpansion standen in der Schweiz der Ausbau und die Finanzi...
Seit der globalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise 2008/2009 wird „Schule“ als die Instanz zur Lösung sozioökonomischer Probleme und gesellschaftlicher Krisen adressiert. Umgekehrt wurde ökonomische Bildung in den vergangenen zehn Jahren von vielerlei außerschulischen Akteuren vorangetrieben. Welche Akteure fördern im Kontext dieser Debatte ökonomische...
Im Rahmen dieser Studie werden im Sinne einer Metareflexion die in der Studierendenstatistik vorgenommenen Kategorisierungen aus diachroner Perspektive analysiert und nach dem Verwendungszusammenhang der Studierendenstatistik im Rahmen der Jahresberichte der Universität Zürich gefragt. Durch die Strukturierung, Neukategorisierung und die Wahl einer...
