Instrumentalism in Education - Where is Bildung left?

von: Stefanie Hillen, Carmela Aprea

Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2015

ISBN: 9783830980544 , 160 Seiten

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Instrumentalism in Education - Where is Bildung left?


 

Book Cover

1

Contents

5

Preface

7

Instrumentalism in Education – Is there Bildung left? What kind of educational spaces can one find in today’s institutionalised educational situations? An initial rapprochement to the volume’s theme (Stefanie Hillen & Carmela Aprea)

9

Kindergartens – schools without recess – the consequences of an instrumentalist notion of play (Dag Nome)

15

Introduction

15

Kindergartens – a new operator in the educational field

16

Management by objectives in kindergarten

17

The didactic distinction between matter and meaning

18

Play as an instrument for learning

19

The flow of play

21

Kindergartens – schools without recess?

22

Outlook

24

References

25

Bildung – At risk in school organisations? (Jorunn H. Midtsundstad)

29

Introduction

29

Research question and rationale

30

Theory

31

Description of the projects and methodological considerations

33

Findings

35

Discussion

38

Concluding remarks

39

References

39

Freedom of speech in the classroom (Ilmi Willbergh)

43

Introduction

43

Methodology

44

Findings

47

Textual level: vocabulary on subject matter

47

Textual level: questioning

48

Discursive level: speech acts

49

Social level: values and meanings in schools

50

Discussion

52

References

54

Teachers’ discourses about the Norwegian national tests (Turid Skarre Aasebø)

59

1. Introduction

59

2. National test system and the teachers

60

3. Research method

61

4. A professional discourse emphasising teachers’ autonomy

63

5. Improvement of teaching and learning

64

6. External pressure and internal discourses

67

7. Concluding remarks

69

References

70

Why do students ask: how much do I need to read to pass the exam? – A conceptual discussion and an empirical inquiry on trends of instrumentalism in study programmes experienced by today’s students (Stefanie Hillen)

73

Introduction – Higher Education sector has been touched by the accountability trend

73

International trends in education and refl ective teaching and learning

74

Instrumentalism: an overview

75

Quality Reform in Norway and the concept of outcome-based learning

76

Results of the Norwegian Quality Reform: a summary

79

Case study

80

Is Bildung jeopardised by instrumentalised education? Further discussions and outlook

83

Acknowledgements

85

References

85

Exploring the possibilities for a bildungs-oriented conceptualisation of financial literacy education (Carmela Aprea, Eveline Wuttke & Michaela Stock)

89

1. Introduction

89

2. Existing conceptualisations of fi nancial literacy

91

2.1 Financial literacy as personal financial management education

91

2.2 Financial literacy as critical consumer education

93

2.3 Financial literacy as part of economic or socio-economic education

94

3. Further points of reference for sustaining a bildungs-oriented conceptualisation of financial literacy and financial education

96

3.1 Wolfgang Klafki’s concept of Allgemeinbildung: concentration on epochal typical key problems

96

3.2 Impulses from Bildungsgang theory: developmental tasks and constructions of meaning

97

3.3 Instructional approaches to situated learning: guided participation to social practices and authentic learning environments

98

4. Exemplary strategic principles for a bildungs-oriented conceptualisation of financial literacy education

99

5. Conclusions

101

References

102

Instrumental Comparativism in vocational education: Policy borrowing instead of systemic development (Volker Bank)

105

1. Policy borrowing as a type of instrumentalism

105

2. The Danish prototype and its counterpart in Schleswig-Holstein

107

3. A case of policy borrowing – or just a failure?

111

4. A policy of systemic perturbation instead of a policy of instrumental borrowing

114

References

115

Juridical Sources

116

Educational challenges in the shadow of instrumentalism (Aslaug Kristiansen)

117

1. Instrumental rational thinking

117

2. Some characteristics of the current educational situation in Norway

118

3. Bildung – a brief sketch

119

4. Critique of Bildung

122

5. Beyond Bildung?

125

6. Martin Buber’s constitution of the educational relationship

126

7. Discussion: The need to a broad approach to the fi eld of education

127

8. Towards the end – a conclusion

128

References

129

Instrumentalism – Where is Bildung left? A reflective discussion on the contributions (Bernadette Hörmann)

131

Instrumentalism – Where is Bildung left? – A view from the side lines of a debate (Rocco M. Postiglione)

139

The domination of technology and Bildung: instrumentalism triumphant?

139

Instrumentalism: Dewey and Keynes

141

Technique and testing: Instrumentalism in school and the concept of limit

141

The Gilded age and the reasons for testing

143

Equality of opportunity as equality of capabilities: Mastery learning

144

The testing and the ethical basis of Mastery learning

146

The admirable Norwegians and testing: what is the problem?

147

Formative Evaluation

148

A missed but needed thematisation: Ethics and religion (for a new instrumentalism vs. Bildung seminar)

150

Bildung and pa.de.a24 (paidèia): Education and the image of the.....p.. (ànthropos)

152

References

154

About the authors

157