
Knowledge and Participation
In the context of lifelong learning and learning throughout the lifespan, societal, political, social, cultural and scientific participation have become focal terms. Broad access to educationally relevant information - which is geared by technological development - constitutes an important prerequisite. Technological support measures that facilitate participation are also a prerequisite to critical thought and well reflected opinions. Participation however also relates to the idea that education - besides the reception of information - should increasingly allow for the active integration of learners into the process of knowledge acquisition/ knowledge generation.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
Projects with this research priority
- Die Welt der Kinder: Weltwissen und Weltdeutung in Schul- und Kinderbüchern zwischen 1850 und 1918
- Evaluation of the Federal European School in Berlin
- Follow-up study on former students of special schools (being part of starting cohort IV within the National Educational Panel Study)
- Impact of different representations of scientific information on people’s knowledge and attitudes
- Inclusive Education in Lower Secondary Schools in Germany – INSIDE
- National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
- National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Focus on language proficiency of students with migration background (Pillar “Education Acquisition of Person with Migration Background”)
- No child left behind – The power of reading (elementary schools)
- Smart Public Intangibles (SPINTAN)
- The multimedia history textbook (MBook) (completed)
- Ubiquitous Working
LERN-Partners
- Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
- Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)
- DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
- German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)
- Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research. Member of the Leibniz Association (GEI)
- Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
- Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)
- RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
- Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB)
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)
- German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
- Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology (HIB)
- Mercator Institute for Literacy and Language Education