Lisa Birnbaum

Institut für Bildungsanalysen Baden-Württemberg

In recent years, digitalisation projects have helped rural areas to bridge some of the urban-rural disparities, such as accessibility issues as well as the digital literacy divide. To further exploit the potential of digitalisation for rural areas, we aim to understand the implementation of digitalisation processes and their conceptual alignment wi...

Das Symposium „Mädchen, MINT und Making“ bot Raum für den Austausch von Praxisakteuren und Forschenden zur Förderung von Mädchen in MINT und Making. Die Diskussionen offenbarten relevante Aspekte, insbesondere für die Gestaltung von außerschulischen Angeboten in diesen Bereichen. Insgesamt liegt die Notwendigkeit in einer verstärkten Vernetzung zwi...

Early literacy acquisition is influenced by children’s social and cultural background. Several empirical studies have shown that by considering literacy activities at home and providing cultural resources, the correlation between the social and cultural background and the children’s literacy achievement can be significantly reduced. This suggests a...

Extracurricular and out-of-school engagement with music is often associated with positive effects for musical goals while also holding potential for developmental and empowerment processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and the potential of digital technologies for facilitating musical engagement. The emergence of digitally t...

It is desirable that children engage in reading and writing beyond school. What is known about various individual and environmental variables that may be related to children’s leisure reading and writing? And how strong is existing evidence? Our scoping review aims at mapping research on leisure reading and writing in first- to fourth-graders. Usin...

This study compared the geographic mobility of community college students with that of students at other institutions of higher education. Using a sample of 7192 students at 39 institutions across the United States (13 community colleges, 14 public 4-year institutions, 12 private 4-year institutions), it employed the method of operationalizing geog...

Schreiben und Lesen sind elementare Kulturtechniken, welche Kinder während der Grundschulzeit nicht nur erwerben, sondern auch im Freizeitkontext nutzen. Sie eröffnen den Zugang zu kultureller Teilhabe und können als integraler Bestandteil kultureller Bildung betrachtet werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht auf Basis der vier ihr zugrundeliegenden Ze...

This paper reflects on place attachment in times of digitalisation in rural regions. Our qualitative study explores the extent to which and with which characteristics place attachment 'translates' into the digital format. The paper analyses 193 digital projects presented in the internet. These cases cover several European countries with a particula...

There is a discrepancy between a high inherent value of extracurricular music classes and a low proportion of low-socioeconomic status (SES) male participants. However, evidence on how to match out-of-school music classes to students’ preferences is lacking. Thus, we assessed the attractiveness of different versions of such classes via an experimen...

While leisure writing may help children to acquire writing skills, it can also be considered as an inherently valuable cultural activity. This study explores how children’s beliefs may explain to what extent children are inclined to leisure writing and if there are any gender differences. Building on preliminary scale development work, we analysed...

When elementary school students write in their leisure time, they acquire competences. Moreover, writing is a cultural activity with value in itself. However, there are only few studies regarding determinants of children’s leisure time writing. Therefore, a questionnaire based on the theory of planned behavior was developed to examine the determina...

Why should children read in their leisure time? Reading may contribute to the acquisition of reading literacy and may foster integral human development. However, there has been a scarcity of research on determinants of leisure time reading among elementary school students, especially regarding environmental aspects. In this article, the authors rep...

Die Zahl studienbezogener Auslandsaufenthalte stieg in den letzten Jahren sehr, gleichzeitig gibt es Studierende, aus deren Sicht ein derartiger Aufenthalt im Ausland nicht erstrebenswert ist. Bekannt ist, dass viele Studierende sich von einem Auslandsaufenthalt berufliche Vorteile und positive Effekte auf ihre Persönlichkeitsentwicklung erhoffen (...