Forschungsschwerpunkt: Education

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Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark
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Projektleitung gesamt
Saxinger, Gertrude; Dr. Mag. / Universität Wien
Projektleitung intern
Kowasch, Matthias; HS-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Interne Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Externe Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Kooperationspartner
Universität Melbourne
Laufzeit
2020 – 2020
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Context HEUREKA explores how formal education and capacity building in community-mining industry relations can foster collaborative and consensual decision-making and mitigate conflicts. The overarching aim is to contribute to socially just and sustainable futures in mining regions. We will co-create transformational knowledge and “connect (the) minds” of stakeholders in New Caledonia as an exemplar, with global lessons for gendered and intergenerational incorporation of local and Indigenous knowledge into decision-making and good governance. Our theoretical framework integrates perspectives from geography, anthropology, education and media studies. New Caledonia will be a ‘prism’ through which we develop a global theoretical understanding of what ‘collaborative and consensual decision-making’ involves in a mining context, how powerful this concept can be and how it can be achieved. Research questions What economic, political, social and cultural components of community–company relations underpin ‘collaborative and consensual decision making’? How can Indigenous knowledge (IK), mining-related knowledge and techniques for informed participation be integrated into formal education and capacity building? How can mining companies and communities work together to integrate IK meaningfully into consultative processes and planning/production activities? What can we gain scientifically and practically from comparing mining regions internationally, in order to advance the nexus of extractive industry studies and educational sciences for informing community participation in mining-related decision making? Methods HEUREKA is driven by mixed scientific methods and meaningful stakeholder engagement, employing a community based participatory research approach, which benefits communities through secure local ownership of knowledge. Future-oriented education and capacity building will take place through joint community and stakeholder workshops, development of teaching and capacity-building materials, citizen science video-making and scientific and lay-language publications in an Online Toolkit and in print. Level of originality An innovative combination of disciplines and stakeholders will assist the relevance of our research. We will contribute to local and international political and industry fora to promote new models of sustainable resource extraction, community–company relations and decolonised education/capacity building. Participants Indigenous Kanak communities of Baco and Touaourou, Environord, Vee Caa, Lycée Michel Rocard Pouembout, Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS), Gertrude Saxinger, Matthias Kowasch, Prof. Simon Batterbury, Susan Thieme, Emma Wilson (ECW Energy Ltd.), Indigenous community researchers, postdoc researcher, two Indigenous PhD students, student assistant.
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Hochschule
Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg
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Bramberger, Andrea; Mag. Dr. Univ.-Doz.
Projektleitung intern
Bramberger, Andrea; Mag. Dr. Univ.-Doz.
Interne Projektmitarbeiter/innen
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Laufzeit
2019 – 2023
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“Safe space” is both a precondition, and one of the effects, of efforts of inclusiveness and egalitarian access to education. It supports and is supported by equitable learning opportunities through mutual appreciation, respect, and a coming to voice in schools and universities. By creating safe spaces for learning and unlearning, researchers and practitioners have been working to strengthen the purpose of schools and universities, where education and learning are intended for everyone (Giroux, 2015, 2014; Kincheloe, 2004), with the goal of increasing critical thinking and valuing difference (Benhabib, 2002, 2016). There is an ongoing tradition of discussing the issue of safe space in feminist studies (e.g., Keating, 1999). Drawing on this foundation in gender, we broaden and specify our focus to include gendered identities intersecting with class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability within multiple aspects of education.
We want to showcase work supporting access to education of vulnerable populations, as well as efforts that help privileged groups understand their role in perpetuating the marginalization of others in educational spaces, by bringing into the popular discourse examples of the diverse and valuable work taking place. The vision for this research initiative and edited volume is to feature both scholarship and practice related to creating the kinds of spaces needed in education to support learning as it is entwined with gender, gendered biases, and power dynamics and structures. As such, this will combine foundational concepts with practical cases of creating safe spaces in various venues of education for diverse identities as they intersect with gender.
Why would we re-conceptualize safe space regarding gender towards inclusiveness? – Re-conceptualization stresses the process, flexibility, and the persistent efforts towards safe space. There is no concept of safe space to be discovered, but rather concepts to be discussed, optimized, transformed, rejected. Inclusiveness stresses the valuation of and the openness for diversity, difference, and heterogeneity. The initiative/book is an experiment in re-conceptualization and gender is its focal point.
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Hochschule
Private Pädagogische Hochschule Linz
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Projektleitung gesamt
Klampfer, Alfred; Mag. Dr. BA
Projektleitung intern
Klampfer, Alfred; Mag. Dr., BA
Interne Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Externe Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Kooperationspartner
Laufzeit
2016 – 2018
Beschreibung
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook and owner of the virtual reality company Oculus, posted the following on Facebook on October 6, 2016:

“Here’s the crazy virtual reality demo I did live on stage at Oculus Connect today. The idea is that virtual reality puts people first. It’s all about who you’re with. Once you’re in there, you can do anything you want together – travel to Mars, play games,
fight with swords, watch movies or teleport home to see your family. You have an environment where you can experience anything.”

Virtual Reality has become a hype in recent years, thanks especially to new hardware and software packages. But this hype already existed in the 1990s and it was being speculated that Virtual Reality would soon enter the classroom. Aaron
Walsh founded the Immersive Education Initiative (http://immersiveeducation.org). At universities, the possibilities of VR were being investigated (e.g., Virtual Harlem at the University of Arizona). But the technology didn’t manage to establish itself in the teaching/learning context. The Internet bandwidths were too low, the technical requirements for schools and university much too high. This has changed in recent years. The development of new, cheaper technologies as well as fast internet connections have created the prerequisites for the use of virtual and augmented reality in the teaching/learning process.

The aim of this project is to consider virtual and augmented reality in the teaching and learning context of schools and universities. Starting from the principles of learning and action theory according to Baumgartner and Kalz 2004, possible
potential applications of VR / AR in the teaching / learning context are described and linked to the theoretical teaching / learning paradigm.

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