Katharina Resch- Doctor of Sociology
- Professor at University of Teacher Education Upper Austria
Katharina Resch
- Doctor of Sociology
- Professor at University of Teacher Education Upper Austria
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Introduction
Katharina Resch is a sociologist, who currently works as a professor for educational sciences at the University of Teacher Education Upper Austria. She has previous experience in research and teaching at the University of Vienna and the University of Koblenz-Landau. Katharina conducts her main research in the sociology of education, higher education research, educational and social inequalities, inclusion, diversity and ageing research. She works with qualitative methods of empirical research.
Current institution
University of Teacher Education Upper Austria
Current position
- Professor
Publications
Publications (79)
Social innovation in Austrian HEIs is discussed under the headline of their “Third Mission.” The HE sector is pressured to have more and more impact on society. Internationally speaking, many countries benefit from national policies and networks in the Third Sector, but policies in Austria were initiated only recently, in 2017, on a national level....
Service-Learning stands out as a teaching approach that connects theory and practice by giving students the opportunity both to participate in a service that meets community needs and to reflect on the experience in class in order to gain a deeper understanding of the course content and an enhanced sense of civic engagement. The advantages of Servi...
More and more student trajectories involve an academic stay abroad. To achieve the intercultural, personal or linguistic objectives associated with such placements, social inclusion with peers and faculty in the place of study is needed. This paper applies Bourdieu's theory of capital as a conceptual framework to examine the experiences of students...
Student volunteering in the higher education context has been studied vastly over the last years. Kahu provided three valuable perspectives on student engagement including the behavioural, the psychological, and the sociocultural perspective on why and how students engage. This study adds a recognition perspective to student engagement, which has s...
There are numerous forms of applied coursework in higher education, one of them being Service-Learning—a teaching approach that promotes social responsibility of students. In this study, we investigate the perspectives of teachers on Service-Learning, since there is extensive research about students’ perspectives, but those of teachers are relative...
The study explores the social belonging of first-generation students in a large university in Austria after the pandemic. While social belonging is a complex notion and nebulous to define, this study applies n enhanced concept of student engagement, which views student engagement as active involvement and social belonging on behalf of a student, an...
Universities are increasingly responsible for developing educational measures that help to respond to socio-political problems. Since 2015, refugees have become a new target group for university continuing education: Here, continuing education measures are being developed for people who have already completed their first degree and gained professio...
Service learning is a methodology that is now applied more often in higher education teaching across disciplines. It connects theory and practice by allowing students to develop or participate in a service in the community while at the same time reflecting on their learnings in class. Due to the complexity of service learning as a didactic approach...
In recent years, campus-community partnerships (CCPs) have proven to be relevant for innovative teaching in higher education, applied research and the further development of the 'third mission' of universities (BUTTERFIELD & SOSKA, 2004). They are one of the central strategic objectives of higher education institutions, which must be maintained and...
Higher education institutions have been going through far-reaching prozesses of transformation in terms of their mission in teaching, research, and societal impact.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been going through far-reaching processes of transformation in terms of their missions in teaching, research, and societal impact. Contrary to their previous understanding and mission, Austrian universities are now increasingly required to contribute evidence from research and teaching to meet social challe...
Although school development can be viewed as an emerging responsibility of teachers, special needs education in Germany does not leave sufficient room for non‐teaching tasks, leading to a knowledge gap in the professionalisation of pre‐service teachers with regard to school development upon entering the profession. This study focused on the prepare...
Jede Schule ist aufgefordert, sich mit Inklusion auseinanderzusetzen, aber was bedeutet dies für die einzelne Lehrkraft? Das Buch bietet einen fundierten Einblick in aktuelle Problemlagen des Inklusionsanspruchs und der Inklusionsrealität mit den Schwerpunkten Kinderrechte, Anti-Diskriminierung, Bildungsgerechtigkeit, Anerkennung und pädagogische F...
The majority of European educational systems regard the provision of high-quality language and learning support for students with immigrant background as the greatest challenge and consider separate language support classes as ‘the solution’ to the educational disadvantages these students face. Austria recently implemented separate language support...
Bewertungen sind in der Gesellschaft allgegenwärtig und durchziehen auch den Hochschulsektor, etwa in Rankings oder Begutachtungsverfahren. Über die Bewertungspraktiken im Zuge von wissenschaftlichen Abschlussarbeiten aus der Perspektive der Lehrenden an Fachhochschulen und Universitäten ist hochschulübergreifend noch wenig bekannt. Bewertungsprakt...
Introduction
Diversity is considered central to the capacity of higher education institutions to thrive in an increasingly diverse society. Accordingly, diversity policies are developed and initiated to benefit students from diverse backgrounds. However, little is known about how students themselves assess these diversity policies (student voice)....
Der Beitrag widmet sich der Frage, welche spezifischen Vulnerabilitäten bei Schüler*innen mit Migrationsgeschichte oder Fluchthintergrund in den Deutschförderklassen während der COVID-19 Pandemie entstanden sind. Die spezifischen Vulnerabilitäten von Schüler*innen mit wenigen Deutschkenntnissen im monolingual geprägten österreichischen Schulsystem...
This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice practices in college and university set...
Purpose
Mezirow's theory of transformative learning aims to evoke change on a deeper level of learning. This qualitative study with 38 pre-service teachers enrolled in a Master's degree programme for teacher education in Austria used semi-structured interviews to explore how diversity skills can transform after diversity training applying Mezirow's...
Special Issue
European perspectives on the socially responsible and engaged university
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1467-6370/vol/23/iss/4
Pre-service teachers often express a strong desire for more practical experience in teacher education, which requires teacher educators to consider new, meaningful opportunities for field experiences. This paper aims to bridge the gap between two 'practice worlds'-university teacher education and school practice-based on the example of the Austrian...
This article analyses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students' social and academic integration, based on Tinto's integration theory. A total of 640 university students in Austria completed an online survey pertaining to academic and social integration during the home-learning period. Results indicate that social integration and...
Purpose
This study aims to examine how lecturers in European higher education institutions perceive the service-learning approach as a teaching concept and feel prepared for its implementation after a short-term training. Service-learning connects theory and practice by allowing students to participate in a service that meets community needs, refle...
Der zweite Tagungsband des Netzwerks Hochschulforschung bildet nicht nur vielfältige Ergebnisse der Hochschulforschung ab, sondern beschäftigt sich auch mit der Verortung dieser Forschung selbst. Er beinhaltet Beiträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und setzt unterschiedliche Forschungszugänge und-intentionen voraus. So werden Erkenntnisgewinn, Fors...
The report presents a study on student experiences with service learning (SL) on the
following European higher education institutions: University Politehnica Bucharest
(UPB), University of Vienna (UNIVIE), Dublin City University (DCU), Kaunas Technical
University (KTU) and University of Porto (UP). The SL courses were offered by
different instituti...
Higher education has become increasingly mobile and international, with many students taking the opportunity to study abroad during their studies. When they do so, forming and maintaining social networks is fundamental for their development of a sense of social inclusion. According to Coleman's model of concentric circles, international students ca...
Several studies have investigated (pre-service) teachers’ attitudes
toward inclusion. However, most have focused on teachers’
attitudes toward the inclusion of students with disabilities. The
understanding of inclusive education has expanded to the
provision of educational opportunities to all students, not only
those with a disability. This study...
Universities Meet Local Communities.
Service-Learning in Higher Education
Focusing on the contemporary challenges of university-community engagement and partnerships, the 4th European Conference on Service Learning offers space and time for critical reflection on community engagement, the need for embedding Service Learning in the curriculum, and...
Der Sammelband "Inklusive Schule und Schulentwicklung" vereint 33 Beiträge aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz über die Entwicklung inklusiver Schulkulturen sowie Hintergründe, empirische Studien und Praxisberichte über inklusive Personal-, Organisations- und Unterrichtsentwicklung. Der Sammelband richtet sich an Personen, die sich mit Frag...
Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich methodisch mit den kommunikativen und visuellen Daten des Projekts Gesund älter werden in Wien auseinander, in dem mit 30 älteren BewohnerInnen Stadtteilbegehungen und parallel geführte Interviews durchgeführt wurden. Mithilfe von Fotos, Bezirkskarten und GPS-Routenaufzeichnungen erhoben die Forscherinnen Daten zu...
CHAPTER 1: THE OBSERVATORY’s ACHIVEMENTS IN 2020
CHAPTER 2: THE RESPONSE OF SERVICE-LEARNING TO THE COVID-19
CHAPTER 3: EUROPEAN ASSOCIATIONS & NETWORKS RELATED TO SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN 2020
CHAPTER 4: ACTIVE EUROPEAN PROJECTS RELATED TO SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN 2020
Despite having purposefully chosen a stay abroad, international students still face significant intercultural conflicts when studying abroad. Current studies on student diversity do not adequately cater to international students, and their narratives are silent in diversity research. Campus climate and attitudes of peer students and staff are not a...
Die Universität Wien (Institut für Bildungswissenschaft) evaluierte im Auftrag des Sozialministeriums den Nationalen Aktionsplan Behinderung 2012-2020 der österreichischen Bundesregierung. Über die Analyse von Dokumenten sowie durch Interviews mit 72 Experteninnen und Experten wurde untersucht, inwiefern und in welchem Ausmaß der NAP Behinderung ge...
LINK ZUM VOLLTEXT: https://zfhe.at/index.php/zfhe/issue/view/67
Diversität betrifft alle Bereiche des hochschulischen Lebens sowie die Hochschulpolitik, -forschung und -entwicklung. Bislang wenig Aufmerksamkeit wurde dem Bereich der Studienprogrammentwicklung geschenkt, in dem sich institutionelle und demografische Diversität überlappen (GAISCH &...
Social responsibility of universities as part of their “Third Mission” has become more and more popular in higher education. The Service Learning Approach stands out as a socially responsible teaching methodology; however, in many European higher education institutions the Service Learning Approach is still unknown. Current teaching material, toolk...
Diversity and internationalisation have become more and more popular and important in all spheres of higher education. Current teaching material, toolkits, and workbooks are being developed to promote a diversity-oriented teaching approach, this exercise toolkit being one of them. However, many higher education teachers do not use or even know them...
Sensitive zones (SZs) are the domains most susceptible to trigger misunderstandings, tensions and conflicts in intercultural encounters. The content of the following texts is meant to give an introduction to the different sensitive zones relevant in intercultural encounters in higher education.
Links: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijshe/european-perspectives-socially-responsible-and-engaged-university
Deadline for Abstracts: Oct. 15th, 2020
The report offers detailed information on the intervention program ‘Circle of Friends’ and the results of eleven evaluation studies on its impact. Further sixteen different school intervention programs concerning different aspects of children’s social participation in inclusive education, such as promoting friendships, enhancing positive relations...
This is the German version of the handbook on culture shocks in higher education. For more language versions, please visit: http://solvinc.eu/
This methodology toolkit provides an evidence-based insight into service learning and seven practical teaching approaches: 1) community-based research, 2) project-based learning, 3) (participatory) action research, 4) internships, 5) volunteering, 6) action-reflection methodologies and 7) social entrepreneurship.
Hochschulische Inklusionsprozesse betreffen alle Bereiche des hochschulischen Lebens und zielen auf die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe diverser Studierender ab. Bislang gibt es nur wenig Evidenz über die kulturellen Differenzerfahrungen internationaler Studierender in diesem Bereich. Das SOLVINC-Projekt „Solving intercultural conflicts with internation...
This methodology toolkit provides an evidence-based insight into service learning and seven practical teaching approaches: 1) community-based research, 2) project-based learning, 3) (participatory) action research, 4) internships, 5) volunteering, 6) action-reflection methodologies and 7) social entrepreneurship.
The European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education (EOSLHE) aims to enhance and disseminate the knowledge of service-learning (therein after S-L) in Higher Education in Europe as an educational approach that enhances students’ civic engagement and brings them closer to different social realities while allowing them to work in a real e...
Presentation of the FRIEND-SHIP "Improving Students' Social Participation in Primary and Secondary Schools Across Europe" project.This project wants to promote social participation and inclusive education through the FRIEND-SHIP intervention programme – a low-threshold programme with educators and students in a 6-week period.
Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote für international ausgebildete und zum Teil geflüchtete Lehrkräfte sind komplex und rar. Während solche Lehrkräfte bereits in ihren Herkunftsländern eine Berufsausbildung absolviert und Berufserfahrung gesammelt haben, werden diese Qualifikationen in Österreich nur zum Teil anerkannt. Geflüchtete Lehrkräfte erfahren...
Background
Health promotion for older people oftentimes takes place in the urban setting, close to where older people live. Of the 1.8 million inhabitants in the city of Vienna, 22% are older than 60 years of age. Health-promoting services should be developed in a low-threshold manner and be adequate for different older target groups in an urban se...
Hochschulen stehen verstärkt in der Verantwortung, Bildungsmaßnahmen zu entwickeln, die dazu beitragen, auf gesellschaftspolitische Problemlagen zu reagieren. Menschen mit Fluchterfahrung sind seit 2015 zu neuen Zielgruppen der universitären Weiterbildung geworden: Hier werden Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen für Personen entwickelt, welche bereits ein Erst...
Generell brauchen Menschen, die nicht die selbe Sprache sprechen, Kommunikationshilfen, um in eine Kommunikationsbeziehung treten und Informationen austauschen zu können. Die Überbrückung von Verständnisbarrieren kann auf mehreren Wegen geschehen: entweder durch Zwei- oder Mehrsprachigkeit der KommunikationspartnerInnen bzw. den Gebrauch einer Ling...
Zusammenfassung Hochschulen stehen zunehmend vor Herausforderungen im Bereich der Weiterent-wicklung und Professionalisierung von Lehrkompetenz und-qualität. Vor dem Hinter-grund der zunehmenden Diversifizierung der Studierendenschaft gilt es, diversitäts-orientierte Lehre zu fördern. Es gibt bislang jedoch nur wenige Studien über die Ein-stellunge...
Service learning as a pedagogical approach has gained enormous significance in higher education in the last years. Service learning projects aim to strengthen stu-dents’ relationships with the community, while also providing impetus for their per-sonal development and civic engagement skills. Measuring service learning, how-ever, is complex, and ap...
The following Guidelines for Universities Engaging in Social Responsibility are designed to offer a selection of recommendations and instructive examples of good practice for universities as they respond to their changing social role in a variety of contexts: regional, national, European and global. Universities are increasingly expected to be resp...
The main purpose of the USR Toolkit is the delivery of a joint Toolkit of Practices for European universities, focusing on examples of good practices, covering social responsibility and interactions between the university and their local communities.
The toolkit contains 21 recent examples of already implemented USR-practices, which are collected u...
The main purpose of the USR Toolkit is the delivery of a joint Toolkit of Practices for European universities, focusing on examples of good practices, covering social responsibility and interactions between the university and their local communities.
The toolkit contains 21 recent examples of already implemented USR-practices, which are collected...
The main purpose of the USR Toolkit is the delivery of a joint Toolkit of Practices for European universities, focusing on examples of good practices, covering social responsibility and interactions between the university and their local communities.
The toolkit contains 21 recent examples of already implemented USR-practices, which are collected...
The main purpose of the USR Toolkit is the delivery of a joint Toolkit of Practices for European universities, focusing on examples of good practices, covering social responsibility and interactions between the university and their local communities.
The toolkit contains 21 recent examples of already implemented USR-practices, which are collected...
The main purpose of the USR Toolkit is the delivery of a joint Toolkit of Practices for European universities, focusing on examples of good practices, covering social responsibility and interactions between the university and their local communities.
The toolkit contains 21 recent examples of already implemented USR-practices, which are collected...
Generell brauchen Menschen, die nicht die selbe Sprache sprechen, Kommunikationshilfen, um in eine Kommunikationsbeziehung treten und Informationen austauschen zu können. Die Überbrückung von Verständnisbarrieren kann auf mehreren Wegen geschehen: entweder durch Zwei- oder Mehrsprachigkeit der KommunikationspartnerInnen bzw. den Gebrauch einer Ling...
Health promotion (HP) amongst older people is an increasingly prominent policy concern for governments. The development of an evidence-base and the advocacy of effective interventions in the light of this act as legitimation tools for the overall HP phenomenon – assisting the growth of state and non-state funding for public health initiatives for o...
The purpose of this article is to critically reflect upon current translation practices in the context of qualitative social research from the perspectives of both social science and translation science. This article connects epistemological issues with methodological aspects and experiences from daily project work—fully being aware of the tensions...
