The article tries to answer the question empirically, whether and under which conditions the key competencies 'acting autonomously' and 'interacting in socially heterogeneous groups' as well as some forms of motivation and forms of the self concept can be improved by university courses, which...

Sustainability is an essential topic for industries, governments and consumers around the globe. With the current initiative "Fridays for Future" kicked off by Greta Thunberg sustainability has gathered international momentum. This momentum is also being captured at IUBH, in particular in the...

Competency-oriented teaching has become an important goal of higher education. Instead of "the sage on the stage", edu-cators are encouraged to become a "guide by their side". They should enable students to apply knowledge rather than simply regurgitating it. This paper represents a contribution...

This paper describes how the corona pandemic has changed the life situations of specific groups of people along the life span: Children and adolescents in precarious life situations, adults with "intellectual disabilities" and persons in the "third age". Based on these situation descriptions,...

Even after several semesters, difficulties are still evident in virtual courses. A common phenomenon is the socalled "black tiles", i.e., students do not use the video function in online courses or use it only very little. This has various effects on the teaching-learning process, which will be...

Regional zunehmend vielfältige Migration bildet den Anlass, Studierenden räumlicher Planung Aufgaben mit dem Zweck zu stellen, Hinweisen auf unterschiedliche Wertschätzungen öffentlicher Freiräume nachzugehen. Neben der Erreichbarkeit und Bekanntheit städtischer Flächen spielen...

The starting point of this paper is the ongoing discussion among academics and practitioners on how to define qualityin university teaching. The different perspectives of the Humboldtian model of higher education, the fields of university didactics and quality management are brought together in...

Das Unternehmen stellte in Frankreich über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg kein originäres soziologisches Objekt dar; es wurde vielmehr von den Soziologen ignoriert. In einer ersten Phase wurde das Unternehmen als ein durch Technologien, Klassengegensätze und ökonomische Zwänge bestimmter Ort...

Vertreter einer einflußreichen Argumentationsrichtung in der neueren Forschungüber die industrielle Reorganisation in modernen Industriegesellschaften sehen imAufbau zwischenbetrieblicher Vertrauensstrukturen und im relational contracting mögliche Wege, die betriebliche Organisation an die...