Vortrag bei der Tagung „In Education We Trust“

Gemeinsam haben Prof. Dr. Barbara Thies (Technische Universität Braunschweig) und Prof. Dr. Inka Bormann bei der diesjährigen Tagung des Georg-Eckert-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Schulbuchforschung „In Education We Trust“ Ergebnisse ihrer Forschung zum „Habituellen Vertrauen als Ressource für Bildungsbiographien“ präsentiert.
Aufgrund der Coronavirus Pandemie fand die Tagung am 10. Dezember 2020  als online-Veranstaltung statt.

Preis für beste Lehre

Am 26.11.2020 wurde am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie erneut der Preis für beste Lehre vergeben. In der Gruppe der HochschullehrerInnen (Erziehungswissenschaft) wurde in diesem Jahr der Lehrpreis an Prof. Dr. Inka Bormann verliehen.

Herzlichen Dank für diese besondere Auszeichnung, über die ich mich sehr freue, und ebenso herzlichen Dank an die Studierenden für ihr großes Engagement!

Paper on the Comprehensive Model of Trust in Education published in „Review of Education“ (OA)

The article „A Comprehensive Model of Trust in Education. Conclusions from a literature review“ (Sebastian Niedlich, Annika Kallfaß, Silvana Pohle and Inka Bormann) is now published in the Review of Education.
You can access the paper here (Open Access): https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rev3.3239 

Special Issue on „Trust in Educational Settings: European Perspectives“

The Division of General Education at the Freie Universität Berlin is guest-editing a special issue on „Trust in Educational Settings. European Perspectives„. The special issue will include invited research papers from across Europe that will address, for example, trust in educational leadership, trust in higher education systems, trust in and towards schools.
The (invited) papers in this Special Issue are from Finland,  Denmark, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany.

Research semester (I. Bormann)

During her research semester (October 2020 – March 2021), Prof. Dr. Inka Bormann is invited as a visiting Professor at universities in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Because of the Coronavirus pandemic, unfortunately these stays cannot take place on site. Many of the planned activities, such as research workshops, lectures and co-teaching, however, will now take place in online formats instead.

Find an interview with Inka Bormann on her digital research semester here.

Mitwirkung im Konsortium Europäischer Hochschulen UNAEuropa / 1Europe

Seit Januar 2020 ist Prof. Dr. Inka Bormann gemeinsam mit weiteren KollegInnen unterschiedlicher Fachbereiche und Einrichtungen der Freien Universität Berlin Mitglied im internationalen Self Steering Committees on Sustainability. Die Freie Universität Berlin wirkt im Europäischen Hochschulverbund UNA Europa mit, der das Vorhaben 1Europe initiiert hat. Das Self Steering Committee on Sustainability ist damit beauftragt, mit VertreterInnen europäischer Partneruniversitäten unterschiedliche forschungsorientierte Studienangebote zu entwickeln und zu pilotieren. UNAEuropa ist ein Zusammenschluss von acht Universitäten: Neben der Freien Universität Berlin sind dies die Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italien), die Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie (Polen), The University of Edinburgh (Großbritannien), die Helsinging Yliopisto (Finnland), die KU Leuven (Belgien), die Univesidaf Complutense de Madrid (Spanien) und die Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Frankreich).

Paper on Sustainability Governance and Organisational Culture published in „Sustainability“

How do different organizational cultures affect approaches to sustainability governance? Reflecting on data from a multi-case study at eleven German Higher Education Institutions, a new paper authored by a team from the Division of General Education at the Freie Universität Berlin and colleagues from the University of Vechta, analyses this question. The paper is published in „Sustainability„. The full paper accessible here or via ResearchGate.

Abstract: Sustainable development practices in higher education institutions are diverse, with regard not only to the types of challenges that have to be addressed, but also to the forms of sustainability governance adopted by individual higher education institutions. This paper aims to reflect on the aspects of organizational culture that are particularly crucial for the implementation of sustainable practices at higher education institutions. Specifically, it addresses the research question: how do different organizational cultures affect approaches to sustainability governance at higher education institutions (HEIs)? It reflects on data from multi-case studies at eleven German higher education institutions. Four of the cases are analyzed in this paper to draw out the insights they offer on how organizational culture shapes the institutions’ approach to sustainable development. A governance equalizer is used as a functional framework for evaluating and discussing the influence of different cultural orientations on sustainability governance. In addition to providing many insights and findings in relation to specific cases, comparison of the different institutions, their governance structures and their cultures of sustainable development helps to emphasize that there is no single cultural factor that can be identified as directly promoting particular governance structures. Rather, there is an active interplay between cultural orientations, which influence, and are also influenced by, the measures deployed. Such influence is not instantly apparent but needs time to develop, and it evolves in a variety of ways as illustrated by the case studies.