Matthias Böhmer

Georges Steffgen

Rassismus, also Diskriminierung von Menschen aufgrund deren vermeintlicher ethnischer Herkunft, ist an Schulen allgegenwärtig. Neben Schüler*innen, Referendar*innen und Lehrer*innen sind mithin alle Akteur*innen im schulischen Kontext von dieser Thematik betroffen. Warum ist dem so? Wie lässt sich rassistische Diskriminierung erklären? Welche Auswirkungen hat dieses Verhalten auf Betroffene? Und wie kann Schule dem begegnen? All dies sind Fragen, die sich stellen und die in diesem Buch in der Absicht beantwortet werden sollen, allen im Schulkontext handelnden Personen eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den eigenen rassismusrelevanten Wissensbeständen zu ermöglichen. Dieses Buch trägt dazu bei, dass sich Schule zu einem rassismussensiblen Raum entwickelt, in dem sich alle Akteur*innen rassismussensibel verhalten. Daher werden neben einem Überblick über die Geschichte des Rassismus, Ansätze zur Erklärung von rassistischen Verhaltensweisen und Auswirkungen von rassistischer Diskriminierung auch Präventions- und Interventionsansätze für eine rassismuskritische Praxis in der Schule vorgestellt.

Geschichte, Erklärungen, Auswirkungen und Interventionsansätze

Rassismus an Schulen

Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt

Sabine Glock

A central aspect of teachers' professional knowledge and competence is the ability to assess students' achievements adequately. Giving grades and marks is one prototypical task in this context. Besides giving grades, assessments for school placements or tracking decisions belong to these tasks. Relevant students' characteristics which influence teachers' assessments do not only involve academic achievement but also students' responses to different task demands as well as non-academic characteristics such as learning motivation or school anxiety.Closely associated with the investigation of teachers' assessment competences and, more specifically, the investigation of conditions associated with high quality of assessments is the development and evaluation of teacher training programs to improve professional competences. In recent years, there has been considerable progress in the domain of professional teacher training; however, only a very limited number of studies are dedicated to the question to what extend training programs might offer valuable approaches to improve the quality of assessments and to implement high assessment competences.Another important field which is closely related to teachers' competences concerns the question how teachers' professional development is linked to students' learning and learning outcomes. In recent years, the societal demand for evidence that teachers' professional development will result in improved student learning outcomes is increasing.This volume brings together questions on assessment, training, and learning in the professional development of teachers which have not been fully discussed yet. The identification of these research gaps was the reason for dedicating a series of lectures given at the University of Luxembourg 2012 to the topic of professionalization of teachers in these domains. Therefore, this book contains contributions from outstanding international scholars in different academic disciplines to present ideas about open research questions concerning the domains of assessment, training, and learning in the professional development of teachers.

Assessment, Training, and Learning

Teachers' Professional Development

A central aspect of teachers’ professional knowledge and competence is the ability to assess students’ achievements adequately. Giving grades and marks is one prototypical task in this context. Besides giving grades, assessments for school placements or tracking decisions belong to these tasks. Relevant students’ characteristics which influence teachers’ assessments do not only involve academic achievement but also students’ responses to different task demands as well as non-academic characteristics such as learning motivation or school anxiety. Closely associated with the investigation of teachers’ assessment competences and, more specifically, the investigation of conditions associated with high quality of assessments is the development and evaluation of teacher training programs to improve professional competences. In recent years, there has been considerable progress in the domain of professional teacher training; however, only a very limited number of studies are dedicated to the question to what extend training programs might offer valuable approaches to improve the quality of assessments and to implement high assessment competences. Another important field which is closely related to teachers’ competences concerns the question how teachers’ professional development is linked to students’ learning and learning outcomes. In recent years, the societal demand for evidence that teachers’ professional development will result in improved student learning outcomes is increasing. This volume brings together questions on assessment, training, and learning in the professional development of teachers which have not been fully discussed yet. The identification of these research gaps was the reason for dedicating a series of lectures given at the University of Luxembourg 2012 to the topic of professionalization of teachers in these domains. Therefore, this book contains contributions from outstanding international scholars in different academic disciplines to present ideas about open research questions concerning the domains of assessment, training, and learning in the professional development of teachers.

Teacher's Professional Development

Mobbing stellt an Schulen ein weit verbreitetes Problem dar. Dieses Buch liefert zum einen aktuelle Erklärungsansätze für das Phänomen Mobbing an Schulen. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass Mobbing nicht nur zwischen Opfern und Tätern stattfindet, sondern dass in der Regel alle Mitglieder einer Schulklasse beteiligt sein können. Entsprechend wird beschrieben, welche Folgen Mobbing für alle Beteiligte haben kann. Zum anderen werden allgemeine Präventions- und Interventionsansätze beschrieben sowie elf Anti-Mobbing-Programme detailliert vorgestellt. Einen besonderen Fokus richtet das Buch auf Mobbingnachsorgekonzepte sowie praxisbezogene Exkurse von ausgewiesenen Experten.

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