Janet F. Painter

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This volume addresses the eighth Sustainable Development Goal. It not only enquires into its global promulgation and into individual local, national, and international cooperative programs in support of it, but it also considers the framing and elaboration of the goal, its adaptation to particular geographical contexts, stakeholder involvement in i...

Polish literature will be explored from the perspective of the three participating nations in its significance for pedagogical work with emotional and social themes, representative of other literatures that play a role in today's increasingly multicultural societies. This exploration is a further development of lifeworld (Lebenswelt)-oriented didac...

In Weiterentwicklung der Lebensweltorientierten Didaktik (Bröcher, 1997, 2022) sowie aufbauend auf früheren deutsch-polnischen Projekten (Bröcher und Toczyski, 2021; Toczyski und Broecher, 2021; Toczyski, Broecher und Painter, 2022) und in Fortsetzung deutsch-amerikanischer Kooperation (Broecher et al., 2014), soll aus der Perspektive von drei Nati...

Podstawowym celem jest dalszy rozwój dydaktyki zorientowanej na świat przeżyć (Lebenswelt) (Bröcher, 1997, 2022) ze względu na rosnące problemy społeczne w naszych zachodnich społeczeństwach i szkołach. Z naszego doświadczenia pedagogicznego wynika, że przede wszystkim musimy zrozumieć świat subiektywnie odbierany przez młodych ludzi, a następnie m...

Increasingly people experience alienation in educational institutions, in work life, and fragmentation in personal life. This paper explores more self-determined, healthy, and sustainable forms of working, learning, and living through a dynamic process which began in 2020 with the purchase of an old homestead in Eastern Germany. Through the remodel...

The paper’s first section presents the goal of the documented research: to connect the creative cities discourse with the development of innovative educational cultures, with a spotlight on the city of Berlin. One particular element of this research was to examine the social and cultural worlds which have been accessed through the booking platform...

Historical and autobiographical approaches are combined with interviews to analyze the case of the Europa-Kontakt in pre-1989 Poland and West Germany within the framework of Europeanization. The international education encounters exemplify the tendencies to Europeanize, which emerged in both countries despite the Iron Curtain. The painful relations...

Many systematic assessments and interventions dominate the field of emotional and social learning in schools. These include behavior-orientation, evidence based practices, and school-wide models based on a response-to-intervention structure, as well as data-driven instruction. Social technologies allow the management, control, and governance of lar...

The model »Lifeworld-oriented Didactics« (in German: »Lebensweltorientierte Didaktik«) has been developed by Joachim Broecher, through his own educational practice as a classroom teacher during the 1990s while teaching in West Germany in both urban and rural specialized schools for children and youth with emotional, social, and behavioral needs. Ac...

As educators, we strive for accessible, just and inclusive educational options for all children and youth, including those from vulnerable social strata. We reflect the processes inside of educational institutions, and examine the social, cultural and economic processes surrounding and overarching these institutional spaces. Guided by a growing lit...

Nurture groups originated in East London, in the 1960s. The first nurture groups provided education for multicultural migrant children, whose schools and parents were under enormous stress. Today, there are more than 1000 nurture groups in the UK across primary, secondary, and specialized schools. A key figure in the development of the model is Mar...

In this poster presentation, an auto/biographical study will be described by a team of international researchers that sought to provide participants who lived in a local village community, in South Westphalia, Germany, born between 1930 and 1945, during the Third Reich an opportunity to share their stories in the hope that those narratives might he...

Ten-day workshops and field trips had a key role in the partnership between a university of applied sciences in East Germany and a small private liberal arts college in North Carolina. This case study evaluates activities and programs from the involved faculty´s perspective. The authors look at the underlying institutional process, they discuss org...

Using qualitative interviews, focus groups, storytelling and collective journaling, the life experiences of people in a local village community, in South Westphalia, Germany, born between 1930 and 1945, were analysed collaboratively. The research intention was to give the younger generations in that region access to these experiences and insights,...

Inspired through the reading of Walter Benjamin´s “Arcades Project” about Paris, and Alfred Kerr´s Berlin diaries and letters, also guided by a growing literature about the “Creative City” in the social sciences, Dr. Broecher began extensive field studies in Berlin, in October 2015. The driving motivation behind this endeavor is an educational one...

Inspiriert durch die Lektüre von Walter Benjamins Pariser Passagenwerk und Alfred Kerrs Berliner Tagebüchern und Briefen, ebenso angeregt durch die anwachsende Literatur zur Creative City in den Sozialwissenschaften begann Dr. Bröcher im Oktober 2015 mit ausgedehnten Feldstudien in Berlin. Das treibende Erkenntnisinteresse war und ist dabei ein päd...

Using qualitative documentation and analysis methods this case study explores the endeavor to support a student in pre-service teacher education who failed his first attempt to write a master´s thesis on the theories of experiential education. Because he had not assimilated recollections from his own problematic family life, he was overwhelmed. Whe...

Ten-day workshops and field trips had a key role in the partnership between a university of applied sciences in East Germany and a small private liberal arts college in North Carolina. This case study evaluates activities and programs from the involved faculty´s perspective. The authors look at the underlying institutional process, they discuss org...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-107).