Wie verbreiten sich Innovationen? Aufsatz zur Kombination von cognitive-affective maps und Diskursanalysen veröffentlicht

Wie verbreiten sich Innovationen? Was unterstützt oder erschwert den Transfer von Innovationen? Diesen Fragen wurde am Beispiel der Implementierung neuer Praktiken in Einrichtungen der Frühkindlichen Bildung von Jasmin Luthardt, Tobias Schröder, Frauke Hildebrand und Inka Bormann nachgegangen. Untersucht wurde, wie bildungspolitische Vorstellungen sich in Fortbildungsprogrammen niederschlagen und wie diese schließlich von pädagogischen Fachkräften wahrgenommen und beurteilt werden. Dazu wurde eine neuartige Kombination von Methoden entwickelt: Mit sogenannten Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs) und Diskursanalysen wurde erschlossen, wie Aspekte einer Innovationsaufforderung wahrgenommen werden und wie diese Aspekte affektiv aufgeladen sind.
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Paper on Assessment Tool for Sustainability Governance at HEI published

A collaborative research team on Sustainability Governance at Higher Education Institutions from the Division of General Education at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Vechta (Niedlich/Bauer/Doneliene/Jaeger/Rieckmann/Bormann) published a new paper introducing a contested tool for the self-assessment of HEI’s sustainability governance in „Sustainability„. The full paper is accessible here or via ResearchGate.

Abstract: The paper aims to add to the discussion on sustainability governance in higher education institutions by examining the role of sustainability assessment and introducing an assessment tool inspired by systemic thinking and centered on a ‘governance equalizer’. It discusses recent research and argues that the complexity inherent in sustainability governance remains to be addressed adequately. While a number of models and frameworks have been proposed, most of them remain caught between narrow, management-oriented approaches on the one hand, and rather abstract approaches that provide little guidance for improving the field on the other. Sustainability assessment tools represent a potential way to bridge this gap. While there are existing tools which include issues of sustainability governance, these are often limited to aspects that are easily quantifiable and neglect more complex aspects. Against this background, the article proposes an alternative tool to assess sustainability governance in higher education institutions. The tool is based on a multi-case study in Germany and has been tested in a series of workshops. Drawing on the concept of a ‘governance equalizer’, it focuses on the functional requirements of sustainability governance in five dimensions—politics, profession, organization, knowledge, and the public—and how they are addressed by the HEI. The tool raises the level of abstraction in order to capture complexity, but at the same time keeps sight of governance structures, processes, instruments, and practices. It combines clearly defined criteria that are assessed using carefully developed maturity scales with a focus on stakeholder participation and knowledge.