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Lehramtsstudium digital – Zwischenergebnisse einer qualitativen Prä-Post-Befragung
(2021)
Im Rahmen des Verbundprojektes PRONET-D werden an der Universität Kassel innovative digitale Lehrangebote für die Ausbildung von Lehramtsstudierenden konzipiert und erprobt. Ziel ist es, Studierende dazu zu befähigen, digitale Medien im späteren Berufsalltag an Schulen angemessen souverän und eigenständig anzuwenden. Das Teilprojekt DipSS (Digitalisierung & professionelles Selbstverständnis Studierender) evaluiert dieses Ausbildungsgeschehen im Rahmen einer qualitativen Begleitforschung, in der Lehrende und Studierende ...
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Right-Wing Politics in the Current Conjuncture
(2022-09)
In this working paper, the author situates the political project under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (termed the “Kurz project”) as a mode of neoliberal crisis management. The case study is conducted using a conjunctural analysis. It is argued that following the event of the Ibiza-affair in 2019 which led to a political crisis in Austria, the Kurz project managed to solidify its stance despite numerous scandals. The main findings are that on the one hand, this is due to a specific strategy employed by Sebastian Kurz, ...
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Practices of Clean Milk Production, Management and Decent Work in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(2022-10)
This study aimed at determining the factors influencing clean milk production in Faisalabad, the third-largest city of Pakistan with more than three million inhabitants. A semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data following a snowball sampling approach. Interviews with each 60 semi-commercial small-scale (SCSS), commercial small-scale (CSS) and commercial large-scale (CLS) peri-urban milk producing households (HH) keeping mixed herds of cattle and buffalo were carried out during February and ...
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Explaining the Financial Exclusion of the Urban Poor through the Lens of Othering: A Case Study in Bengaluru, India
(2022-12)
Financial inclusion has historically played a large part in the Indian state’s plans for the country’s financial system. However, large sections of the Indian population still lack access to the banking system and formal credit. Existing literature on the issue tends to use a quantitative lens and focus on the rural sections of the country. Therefore, the innovation of this paper lies in the fact that it uses a qualitative approach to the problem and, using Bangalore as a case study, finds that the Othering of the ...
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Social Upgrading in Global Agricultural Value Chains: What impacts labour relations in fruit production in the Brazilian Northeast?
(2022-12-15)
The paper aims to analyse the impacts on social upgrading in the two main fruit-producing areas of the Brazilian Northeast – Açú-Mossoró and Petrolina-Juazeiro. The concept of decent work deficit was elected as a guideline for the theoretical background, as many authors have applied it to address social upgrading in a more objective way. The paper has adopted the time series econometric analysis to identify possible structural breaks in the formal workers’ demand per hectare for the two regions. The main results ...
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Wie haben Lehramtsstudierende der Universität Kassel die Umstellung von Präsenz- auf Online-Lehre erlebt? – Ergebnisse aus PRONET-D
(2020)
Das Projekt „Analyse digitalisierungsbezogener Kompetenzen“ (AIM) ist Teil des Projektvorhabens PRONET-D im Rahmen der Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung und widmet sich der empirischen Erfassung und Analyse digitalisierungsbezogener Kompetenzen und Einstellungen von Kasseler Lehramtsstudierenden. Die kurzfristige Umstellung von der Präsenzlehre zu digitaler Lehre im Frühjahr 2020 wurde zum Anlass genommen, die Lehramtsstudierenden längsschnittlich zu zwei Messzeitpunkten zu ihren selbstberichteten Kompetenzen, ...
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Footwear industry, and plastic recycling
(2021-11)
The social and economic dynamics in Ticul municipality in Yucatán is based on labor-intensive and low-tech pottery and shoe manufacturing, contributing thereby 55% of the municipality’s total gross production. Despite its economic importance and employment, there are no environmental policies focused on these economic activities in the community, which has led to environmental, social, health problems in children and concerns of hazardous waste. The article’s objective is to document a successful case of a plastics ...
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Rural-Urban Transition
(2021-11)
Like elsewhere, migration-led peri-urban (rural clusters) growth of cities has been an important element of rural-urban transformation for centuries. However, only recently, in this process, the rural landscape also benefits from these changes, owing to better communication and market access. Peri-urban areas are consuming peripheral villages. This has put pressure on land and water resources putting environmental health at stake. Loss of biodiversity is imminent due to changing ecological frame conditions in an ...
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Impacts of Lockdown on Livelihood Conditions of Informal Workers in Bihar, India
(2022-03)
This paper analyses the impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdown on employment and working conditions, impacts on wages and incomes, food consumption, borrowings and asset holdings and level of government support in Bihar, one of the largest states of India.