Nina Kolleck

University of Leipzig · Social Sciences and Philosophy

The promotion of dialogues between youth and older adults in the field of cultural education remains one of the most important educational policy tasks in Germany. After all, intergenerational, cultural projects can make an important contribution to reducing ageism, promoting personal development, and dealing with social challenges. Close collabora...

Fake News, Extremismus, Klimawandel, Polarisierung – wie können demokratische Gesellschaften diesen Entwicklungen begegnen? Auf der Suche nach Antworten nimmt die Forderung nach politischer Bildung seit einigen Jahren eine zunehmend zentrale Rolle ein. Weltweit reagieren Bildungssysteme auf die sich zuspitzenden gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen...

This study implements a mixed methods design based on social network analysis to analyse activities related to the participation of youth in international negotiations on climate change. We show that the participation of youth is, on the one hand, actively promoted by international organisations. On the other hand, youth form transnational social m...

International bureaucracies, also called International Public Administrations (IPAs), have been identified as potentially influential actors within the global climate change regime complex. To assess how these organizations exert influence, scholars have predominantly relied on case studies, interviews and descriptive (network) statistics. This art...

Kulturelle Bildung in ländlichen Räumen steht vor spezifischen Chancen und Herausforderungen, die bislang kaum wissenschaftlich untersucht wurden. Nicht zuletzt fehlt eine systematische Aufarbeitung des Forschungsstands. Das Metavorhaben zur Förderrichtlinie soll mit einem systematischen Review der vorhandenen Literatur sowie quantitativen Analysen...

(1) Background: The equality of life chances in Germany is often assessed along the lines of a west/east and urban/rural differentiation in which the latter usually perform worse. One currently popular proposal for addressing these inequalities is to strengthen cultural and arts education. The question arises to what extent regional characteristics...

Education is a highly regulated field with many identified deficits and limitations, which often lead to inequalities and disadvantages for certain groups. Therefore, the education sector was increasingly confronted with reform and innovation initiatives across relevant fields (e.g., kindergarten, school, university or further education, social wor...

Interconnected bureaucracies. Comparing online and offline networks during global climate negotiations Measuring the influence of international public administrations has traditionally been conducted with ‘offline’ data, using interviews, surveys or official documents. However, an emerging strand of the literature argues that influence can also be...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to enormous societal changes worldwide and touched many different areas of daily life. One of the most serious restrictions to contain the pandemic was the closure of schools and kindergartens. Particularly in countries with comparatively low levels of digitalization in schools, this situation opened up opp...

The adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has brought about extensive education policy reforms towards inclusive education in many countries around the world. At the same time, it has been observed that intergovernmental organisations and non-state actors have been extensively involved in establishing these reform...

In recent years, partnerships between schools and non-system actors, that is, cross-sector alliances, have become increasingly important in education systems around the world, raising concerns and doubts regarding the influence of non-school actors in educational management and leadership. In these debates, trust is regarded as a key element for th...

The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, other non-profit entities, and the private sector. This article extends the state of research by investigating whether and how secretariats try to strengthen their reputation within...

The past few years have witnessed a growing interest among scholars and policy-makers in the interplay of international bureaucracies with civil society organizations, other non-profit entities, and the private sector. This article extends the state of research by investigating whether and how secretariats try to strengthen their reputation within...

Elaborating on stakeholder salience theory, this study aims to explore the different agendas and modus operandi of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) within the Israeli public education system. This article is part of a larger study, focused on NGOs that offer services within the secular state education sector in the field of ‘Jewish (religious)...

Cultural education has recently been particularly emphasized as key for the promotion of equal opportunities, social cohesion and political engagement. While the relationship between political engagement and formal education has been extensively discussed, little research has been conducted on non‐formal types of education, such as non‐formal cultu...

Viele Jahre dominierte das Bild, Politik als Fach und Demokratie als Gegenstand würden sich nicht für den Primarbereich eignen (Kolleck und Eller-Eberstein 2019). Grundschulkinder sollten sich auf den Erwerb der grundlegenden Kompetenzen konzentrieren und dazu gehörten bspw. der Schriftspracherwerb oder die Grundrechenarten; nicht aber das Fach Pol...

In recent years, teachers around the world have been increasingly confronted with various expectations concerning the improvement of their classroom practices and school activities. One factor widely acknowledged to facilitate school and classroom improvement is a strong collaborative culture among teachers. As such, teachers are expected to work i...

Measuring the influence of international public administrations has traditionally been conducted with ‘offline’ data, using interviews, surveys or official documents. However, an emerging strand of the literature argues that influence can also be observed ‘online’, with data based on online social networks, such as Twitter. Our contribution aims at...

This study examines teacher collaboration in nine German schools to identify factors that explain the structure of teacher networks in relation to specific types of collaboration and schools' structural environment. Using inferential network analysis, we find that teachers’ individual attributes are important for collaboration in schools with basic...

Entrepreneurship education is increasingly prominent in university and school curricula worldwide, following its intensive advocacy by intergovernmental organisations and national governments as a remedy for the urgent pressures to better prepare students for today’s globalised and highly competitive workplace. This study analyses the official poli...

Disability as a global social policy issue has gained increasing importance during recent decades, partly due to a shift in conceptualization from a medical to a social perspective on disability. This new relevance has led to the emergence of a global organizational field around the topic, with a high involvement of International Organizations (IOs...

With the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), inclusive education has become the main alternative to special schools for the schooling of children with disabilities. In order to promote the global implementation of inclusive education, a variety of stakeholders form networks to transmit and exchange information and knowledg...

Twitter hat sich für viele Disziplinen zu einem wichtigen Untersuchungsgegenstand und einer interessanten Datenquelle entwickelt. Jedoch wird die Kommunikationsplattform von Forscher*innen der transnationalen und Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) bislang wenig untersucht. Unter den verschiedenen sozialen Medien wird Twitter am intensivsten von polit...

International organizations and their secretariats, called international public administrations (IPAs), have been found to hold considerable authority in world politics. This study conceptualizes and measures IPA authority in the digital sphere. It proposes the concept of digital authority to measure the authority of actors in online social network...

In recent decades, different social innovations – such as lifelong learning, inclusion or Education for Sustainable Development – have had a huge impact on domestic education systems. In an increasingly globalized world, innovations diffuse across national borders. At the same time, diffusion processes seem to be highly influenced by public and pri...

Introduction: The German practical year is the last clinical placement period during Medical School. However, it remains unclear how medical students evaluate the practical year in orthopaedics and traumatology (Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie; O & U) and whether it has an impact on becoming an O & U specialist. Method: We analysed data of 146 me...

Educational collaborative networks (ECNs), as instruments for achieving educational goals through the integration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have become frequent elements of public education worldwide. Despite their contribution of additional resources to the education enterprise, the roles of philanthropic foundations in ECNs are pa...

Während Kulturelle Bildung in den letzten Jahren in strukturstarken Regionen und Städten einen qualitativen und quantitativen Aufschwung erfuhr, wird das Thema in vielen ländlichen und peripheren Räumen oft vernachlässigt. Diese Vernachlässigung zeigt sich ebenfalls in wissenschaftlichen Studien. So wurden beispielsweise Angebote Kultureller Bildun...

Our article aims to better understand the role of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the increasingly complex global climate governance structure. We employ an innovative approach to addressing this issue by systematically examining the climate secretariat's relations with the main groups of act...

International public administrations (IPA s) play a significant role for the success of multilateral negotiations. As the bureaucratic bodies of international organizations, they are deeply involved in international negotiations, but receive little credit for their outcomes. By studying the administrative styles of the Secretariat of the UN Framewo...

Intergovernmental organizations (IOs) increasingly promote global citizenship education (GCE) and related topics. This paper analyses the body of scholarship on GCE that focuses on teachers and interprets the development of environment-related education (ERE) within the GCE discourse. Using a novel, data-rich methodology employing Natural Language...

The mutual dependency of teacher collaboration and motivation has emerged as a promising research field. This article now sets out to systematically review peer-reviewed articles on the interconnection of these concepts. It looks at main findings, identifies ambiguities and contradictions in the constructs and highlights their contested nature. It...

Since the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), far-reaching efforts have been made to implement ESD worldwide. While ESD seems increasingly to be diffused as a social innovation related to environmental education, we still know little about how the concept is implemented through social relations and what role trust plays in thi...

Education is considered an essential tool for achieving sustainability-related goals. In this regard, education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate change education (CCE) have become prominent concepts. The central characteristics of both concepts influence the non-hierarchical network governance structure that has formed around them: (1)...

In the last years, a shift in the promotion of sustainable development in Higher Education from a focus on universities’ core areas of teaching and research to “whole institution approaches” with an emphasis on the operational management of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can be observed in different countries. With the aim to foster sustainab...

Effectiveness and improvement have become key terms in educational research. However, cross-national research applies different approaches to providing knowledge for improvement along with divergent assumptions for change. Most frequently, continuous improvement refers to systemic inquiry, involving practitioners’ knowledge of daily-work-problems....

Das Thema Netzwerke in Schulen boomt. Unterschiedliche Herausforderungen und Themen, die Schulen und ihre Akteurinnen und Akteure beschäftigen, sollen mit einer stärkeren Vernetzung bewältigt werden. In den letzten Jahren wurde eine Vielzahl an schulischen Netzwerken durch politische Maßnahmen unterstützt, in denen jeweils unterschiedliche Ziele ve...

The rise of cross-sectoral collaboration initiatives has been widely documented. While schools and third-sector organizations share important educational goals in these initiatives, the predictors of their identification with common goals have not been examined systemically to date. This article analyses predictors of common goal identification wit...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address school–NGO interactions by analyzing the power of foundations – a specific type of third sector organization or NGO in education. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected through a quantitative survey, qualitative interviews, official documents, reports and websites. Social network analysis a...

Netzwerke, Organisationen und Bildung – die Konzepte erschienen lange Zeit als unvereinbar.

This article explores perceptions of local philanthropic foundations situated in community-based initiative (CBI) policies that aim to achieve educational goals through the establishment of collaborative connections between schools and multiple local actors. Although roles of philanthropy in public education are controversial, scholars have yet to...

Bildungsverbünde stellen eine neue Form der Steuerung dar, bei der aktuelle Herausforderungen im Bildungssystem durch eine abgestimmte Zusammenarbeit aller beteiligten Akteure bearbeitet werden sollen. Solche Verbünde leben von den sozialen Beziehungen der Beteiligten untereinander, wobei das Vertrauen von besonderer Relevanz ist. Wir wenden uns de...

This article explores the role of out-of-school organizations (OSOs) in regionalization programs from an educational governance perspective. Although OSOs are included in processes of regionalization and it can be assumed that they take part in the regional organization of school education, there is still a lack of scientific studies in this area....

Despite the relevance of education-specific negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the increasingly influential role of the UNFCCC secretariat therein, research in this area is still scarce. In this article, we contribute to closing this research gap by exploring how the UNFCCC secretariat becomes...

While there is little doubt that social networks are essential for processes of implementing social innovations in community education such as Climate Change Education (CCE) or Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), scholars have neglected to analyze these processes in the multilevel governance system using Social Network Analysis. In this ar...

Despite the relevance of education-specific negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the influential role of the secretariat therein, research in this area is still scarce. We contribute to closing this research gap by exploring how the UNFCCC secretariat becomes involved in and has latent influence...

In this article the value of Twitter data analysis for a strategic foresight exercise is discussed. The article offers an overview of Twitter’s basic functionalities, previous Twitter research and related studies on using Twitter in foresight projects to date. Based on this knowledge the case of the EU research project “Foresight and Modelling for...

In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse quantitativer und qualitativer Netzwerkanalysen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Vertrauen als Governance-Mechanismus in Netzwerken des BNE-Transfers im Rahmen der UN-Dekade „Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung“ verdeutlicht. Die theoretischen Grundlagen und das methodische Vorgehen der quantitativen und quali...

Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert ein theoretisch eingebettetes Design zur Untersuchung von Akteurkonstellationen, das auf qualitative und quantitative Verfahren der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse zurückgreift. Die im Rahmen dieses Forschungsansatzes verfolgte Verknüpfung netzwerktheoretischer Dimensionen mit empirischen Verfahren eignet sich insbesond...

While there is little doubt that international public administrations (IPAs) exert autonomous influence on international policy outputs, scholars struggle with the problem of how to measure this influence. Established methods for assessing political influence are of limited use when focusing on international bureaucracies. The main reason is that I...

Ziel dieses Buchs ist es, theoretisch-konzeptionelle sowie empirische Erkenntnisse zum Thema Bildungsnetzwerke zusammenzuführen. Vorgestellt werden aktuelle Ergebnisse aus theoretisch-reflexiven und empirischen Studien, die sich unter Rückgriff auf netzwerkanalytische oder -theoretische Verfahren mit Fragen rund um Traditionen, Zukünfte oder Wandel...

Ziel dieses Buchs ist es, theoretisch-konzeptionelle sowie empirische Erkenntnisse zum Thema Bildungsnetzwerke zusammenzuführen. Vorgestellt werden aktuelle Ergebnisse aus theoretisch-reflexiven und empirischen Studien, die sich unter Rückgriff auf netzwerkanalytische oder -theoretische Verfahren mit Fragen rund um Traditionen, Zukünfte oder Wandel...

Ziel dieses Buchs ist es, theoretisch-konzeptionelle sowie empirische Erkenntnisse zum Thema Bildungsnetzwerke zusammenzuführen. Vorgestellt werden aktuelle Ergebnisse aus theoretisch-reflexiven und empirischen Studien, die sich unter Rückgriff auf netzwerkanalytische oder -theoretische Verfahren mit Fragen rund um Traditionen, Zukünfte oder Wandel...

Conceptualizing international public administrations (IPAs) as attention-seeking bureaucracies which aim to actively feed their policy-relevant information into multilateral decision-making process, the chapter proposes two pathways through which international treaty secretariats may seek to influence international negotiations: (a) secretariats ma...

This paper examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Germany and explores the possibilities of Social Network Analysis (SNA) for uncovering influential actors in educational policy innovation processes. From the theoretical perspective, an actor’s influence is inferred from its relative position within issue-spec...

Der Beitrag wendet sich den Fragen zu, inwiefern Stiftungen ihr Agieren im Bildungsbereich als innovativ deklarieren und welche impliziten Verständnisse von Bildung ihrem Engagement zugrunde liegen. Zunächst werden im zweiten Kapitel aus einer feldtheoretischen Perspektive die strukturelle und die relationale Dimension des Stiftungshandelns beleuch...

Im Bildungssystem ist spätestens seit der Etablierung der empirisch vergleichenden Messung von Schulleistungen eine Zunahme an inhaltlich und strukturell tief greifenden Reforminitiativen zu beobachten. Während die aktiv in der Bildungsarbeit stehenden Akteure, vor allem die Schulen und ihre Lehrerinnen und Lehrer, lange Jahre „in Ruhe gelassen wur...

In this article I examine how foundations use the concept of education and how they try to shape its definition and implementation. In accordance with Steven Lukes’ notion, I argue that changes in social fields are mainly triggered by normative and semantic shifts. By drawing on techniques of discourse analysis, I explore the use of discursive stra...

The authors examine in how far foundations profess their actions in the field of education to be innovative and which implicit understanding of education is underlying their involvement. They start by looking at the structural and relational dimension of the actions of foundations from a field-theoretical perspective (chapter 2), and then focus on...

Der vorliegende Beitrag führt in das Buch ein. Zunächst werden die unterschiedlichen Argumentationsstränge beleuchtet, die zur Konzeption, zum Design und zur Durchführung des Projekts QuaSi BNE motiviert haben. Weiterhin werden die Gliederung und die einzelnen Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbands vorgestellt. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem kurzen...

Die AutorInnen präsentieren ein außergewöhnlich breites Spektrum an wissenschaftlichen Studien und praxisorientierten Einblicken zu einem hochaktuellen Thema: der Entstehung von Bildungslandschaften im Sinne einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Der Sammelband integriert Beiträge von WissenschaftlerInnen und PraxisakteurInnen, die unter andere...

Seit einigen Jahren wird im Bildungsbereich zunehmend auf das Konzept der sozialen Netzwerke zurückgegriffen. Soziale Netzwerke, so heißt es, fördern Kompetenzen, Lernprozesse, bildungspolitische Innovationen, Übergänge in Lern- und Bildungsbiographien sowie Synergien bei der Verknüpfung formaler, non-formaler und informeller Lernorte. Auch Erziehu...

Die AutorInnen präsentieren ein außergewöhnlich breites Spektrum an wissenschaftlichen Studien und praxisorientierten Einblicken zu einem hochaktuellen Thema: der Entstehung von Bildungslandschaften im Sinne einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Der Sammelband integriert Beiträge von WissenschaftlerInnen und PraxisakteurInnen, die unter andere...

Die AutorInnen präsentieren ein außergewöhnlich breites Spektrum an wissenschaftlichen Studien und praxisorientierten Einblicken zu einem hochaktuellen Thema: der Entstehung von Bildungslandschaften im Sinne einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Der Sammelband integriert Beiträge von WissenschaftlerInnen und PraxisakteurInnen, die unter andere...

Die AutorInnen präsentieren ein außergewöhnlich breites Spektrum an wissenschaftlichen Studien und praxisorientierten Einblicken zu einem hochaktuellen Thema: der Entstehung von Bildungslandschaften im Sinne einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Der Sammelband integriert Beiträge von WissenschaftlerInnen und PraxisakteurInnen, die unter andere...

Although the role of trust in quality management is clear, there is a lack of research work in this area. This is due to the fact that trust is difficult to capture theoretically. Because analyzing trust requires understanding the influence of ever-changing human negotiations and social context, social network analysis (SNA) can play a valuable par...

Obwohl die Bedeutung von Vertrauen für Qualitätsentwicklungsprozesse offenkundig ist, mangelt es an Forschungsarbeiten auf diesem Gebiet. Dies liegt nicht zuletzt auch daran, dass Vertrauen theoretisch schwer zu fassen ist. Während für die Analyse von Vertrauen der wechselseitigen Beeinflussung von menschlichem Handeln und sozialem Kontext eine bes...

Scholars of diverse disciplines have begun to observe the growing importance of social networks for educational innovations. However, there is still a lack of studies that analyze the implementation of educational innovations by drawing on empirical techniques of Social Network Analysis (SNA). SNA research is critical to help us understand both how...

In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have become progressively aware of the fundamental role played by relationships among actors in social settings and the importance of social contexts as such. This development has concurred with the growing reputation of Social Network Analysis (SNA) across the physical and social sciences, as well...

In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have become progressively aware of the fundamental role played by relationships among actors in social settings and the importance of social contexts as such. This development has concurred with the growing reputation of Social Network Analysis (SNA) across the physical and social sciences, as well...

The success of innovations essentially depends on two types of trust. First, innovations are implemented when the network members responsible for implementing them trust in their efficacy. Second, innovations are diffused through social networks whose relations are built on trust. Thus, both perceptions and relational factors play a decisive role f...