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Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the “demographic change” with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of explanation before and after such a prominent life cycle event, the entrance into retirement. In particular, with the individual longitudinal data and 33 waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the appropriate microeconometric causal fixed effects robust panel methods we ask and quantify if actual life satisfaction indeed is decreasing before re-tirement, is increasing at the entrance into retirement, and is decreasing then after certain periods back to a foregoing level. Thus, we ask if such an anticipation and adaptation pattern– as known from other promi-nent events – is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. Main result: Individual and family situation lift life satisfaction after retirement for many years, the (former) occupational situation, however, absorbs this effect both for pensioners and civil service pensioners. It remains only one period of improvement with close anticipation and adaptation at entering retirement but no furthermore significant change compared to pre-retirement life satisfaction. This holds for pensioners (German pension insurance, GRV) but there is no significant effect at all for civil service pensioners.
The Subaltern will never speak - Critical Reflection on Mill´s Thoughts of Political Representation
(2018)
The concept of empowerment has gained considerable attention in the field of international development. Institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations invest considerable funds and efforts trying to facilitate empowerment in developing countries. This is because empowerment is seen as a positive phenomenon that can positively impact on people and their environment. Empowerment provides an implemental mindset that makes people look for the means to action and be ready to move forward toward their goals. Thus, empowerment becomes important when people need to take action and be innovative in overcoming scarcity and fighting against poverty. Research shows the positive effects of empowerment on entrepreneurship-related behavior and outcomes such as proactive behavior, goal achievement, and innovation. Yet, there is a dearth of research addressing the phenomenon of empowerment in entrepreneurship. This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of the role of empowerment in entrepreneurship and its effects. Particularly, this dissertation targets the interplay between empowerment and entrepreneurship in the context of developing countries. Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the different topics of this dissertation. Chapter 2, introduces the construct of psychological empowerment at work as the theoretical foundation to advocate for the importance of empowerment in entrepreneurship. The chapter takes initial steps in drawing the rationale and identifying empirical evidence for the relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurial behavior and outcomes. Specifically, the chapter links the components of psychological empowerment to concrete action characteristics in entrepreneurship such as effectuation and experimentation. Chapter 3 establishes a first empirical link between empowerment and entrepreneurship. The chapter provides the construct of entrepreneurial empowerment and develops a multidimensional measure to measure its dimensions. By means of a nomological network, the chapter reveals the relations of entrepreneurial empowerment with relevant constructs and outcomes derived from entrepreneurship and empowerment research such as innovation, self-reliance, and decision-making. Chapter 4 posits entrepreneurship training, particularly personal initiative training and business literacy training, as effective means to facilitate entrepreneurial empowerment and its effect on business performance. The chapter uncovers the mechanisms accounting for the relationship between entrepreneurship training and entrepreneurial empowerment. Chapter 5 provides general theoretical and practical contributions and finishes with a general conclusion. This dissertation contributes to the understanding of empowerment in entrepreneurship and its effects on business performance in the context of developing countries. The studies embedded in this dissertation can serve to further the development of theory and research that advances groundwork of empowerment in entrepreneurship. The construct of entrepreneurial empowerment can stimulate the use of more accurate indicators when conceptualizing and investigating the process and consequences of empowerment in entrepreneurship and international development.
Der Klimawandel gehört zu den globalen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Folgen des Klimawandels machen sich u.a. in Form von Hitze, Stürmen oder Starkregen bemerkbar. Dem Klimawandel kann sowohl mithilfe des Klimaschutzes (Mitigation) in Form der Ursachenbekämpfung als auch mithilfe der Klimaanpassung (Adaption), welche sich in Form von Anpassungsmaßnahmen an das sich ändernde Klima darstellt, begegnet werden. Aufgrund ihrer Struktur sind insbesondere urbane Strukturen von Klimafolgen betroffen. Der Raum- und Umweltplanung komme dabei hinsichtlich der sozial-ökologischen Naturverhältnisse eine wichtige Rolle zu, sofern sie die Aufgaben der Krisenbewältigung annehmen und verantwortungsvoll wahrnehmen will.
Auch die Hansestadt Lüneburg steht zukünftig vor einigen Herausforderungen. Durch den allgemeinen Trend der Urbanisierung und als Teil der Metropolregion Hamburg gilt Lüneburg als beliebter Wohnraum. Folglich werden auch zukünftig neue Baugebiete erschlossen, Wohnraum geschaffen und Verdichtung sowie Flächenversiegelung vorgenommen. Im aktuell bearbeiteten Klimagutachten für Lüneburg werden bereits bisherige Risikogebiete bezüglich Hitze und Frischluft aufgezeigt.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden zunächst die der Ausarbeitung zugrungegelegten Begriffe sowie die Bedeutung von Starkregenereignissen in der Stadtplanung definiert und näher erläutert. Darauf folgt die Darstellung der zur Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage verwendeten Methoden. Anschließend werden in der empirischen Forschung das bisherige Auftreten von Starkregen analysiert, bestehende Adaptionsstrategien norddeutscher Städte und Regionen aufgezeigt, ein Zukunftsausblick auf Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Prognosen gegeben und konkrete, auf die Hansestadt Lüneburg bezogene, Analysen und Szenarien erstellt, bevor ein Resümee der empirischen Forschung gezogen werden kann. Abschließend wird das methodische Vorgehen reflektiert, die Ergebnisse diskutiert und ein kurzer Ausblick auf zukünftige Herausforderungen gegeben.
Over the last decades corporate irresponsibility has gained increasing interest among practitioners and researchers. Corporate irresponsibility is often the result of intentionally irresponsible strategies, decisions, or actions, which negatively affect an identifiable stakeholder or environment. For instance, these range from the violation of the human rights and labor standards to environmental damages. Organizations enacting irresponsible practices rely on different factors upon multiple levels (field, organizational, individual) and its interrelations as well as processes evolving within the organization leading to such behavior. However, reasons for the occurrence of and explanations for corporate irresponsibility so far have been limited, leaving a fragmented understanding of this phenomenon. This dissertation helps to improve the understanding and explanation of corporate irresponsibility by identifying driving patterns of corporate irresponsibility and showing how the interactions across multiple levels add to this phenomenon. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the topic of corporate irresponsibility, the theoretical approaches of this dissertation and an introduction to the chapters. The second chapter offers a review and analysis of the corporate irresponsibility literature. The chapter presents a variance model outlining the concept, antecedents, moderators and outcomes of recent corporate irresponsibility literature as well as the different factors across levels (field, organizational, individual). Chapter 2 offers a critical analysis of what we know by referring to current literature and offers insights on what we don´t know by deriving main implications for future research on corporate irresponsibility. Chapter 3 enlarges the understanding of corporate irresponsibility introducing a process approach to explain how corporate irresponsibility evolves over time and under which conditions. Based on a qualitative meta-analysis findings converge around two distinct process paths of corporate irresponsibility, the opportunistic-proactive, and, the emerging-reactive, subdivided into three phases. Chapter 3 sheds different lights upon the phases of corporate irresponsibility and its underlying mechanisms. The final chapter 4 focuses on different underlying mechanisms driving the final downfall or demise of organizations, organizational failure. Chapter 4 offers an alternative explanation to the competing extremism and inertia mechanisms driving organizational failure in recent studies by suggesting that these explanations are rather complementary. In addition, chapter 4 enlarges the explanation of organizational failure identifying the role of conflict mechanisms and its interplay with rigidity mechanisms. In sum, this dissertation contributes to a better understanding of what causes and increases corporate irresponsibility, and a better explanation of how and why corporate irresponsibility and organizational failure emerges, develops, grows or terminates over time. Hopefully all three articles motivate more research on this important topic to prevent such behavior in advance. 4
Evaluating another person´s personality is an essential part of human life. How an individual reacts to a certain trigger, let it be a statement, strongly depends on his personality. Therefore, knowledge about the personality of a conversational counterpart is crucial to predict how he or she will react to a question or an answer. Personality is commonly understood as ´patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that are relatively consistent over time and across situations´ (Funder 2012). If personality is as aforementioned defined as stable ´over time and across situations´, then it has to be differentiated from the character, which might change as an actor plays a role. A large proportion of an individual´s outer behavior can be explained by the inner personality. The outer behavior as a result of the personality determines various socio-demographic attributes, like job satisfaction (Furnham et al. 2002), the success of romantic relationships (Noftle, Shaver 2006), job performance (Barrik, Mount 1991) or high income, conservative political attitudes, early life adjustment to challenges, and social relationships (Soldz, Vaillant 1999). Humans can infer another person´s personality pretty precise. A first impression like a short video in many cases is enough to asses a personality (Carney et al. 2007). However, personality assessment is not limited to the social-cognitive domain of human brains - machine learning models attempt to predict personalities as well, or even better than humans. The internet provides a vast amount of data regarding personal information about its users - to so-called digital footprint. Especially social networks offer personal data in a very condensed form, the social-media footprint. Social media networks, which are online platforms, where people create a profile of themselves and communicate with other users or artificial persons like newspaper, offer a wide range of personal data to the broad community, as well as the network and its developers. In the year 2014 49.7 % of the German internet participated in social media networks (Statistisches Bundesamt 3/16/2015) with an upward trend. Furthermore, social media networks, like Facebook, provide the possibility to ´like´ something, which means at first: the user starts to follow a certain page and therefore receives updates and messages from the page and secondly: that the user publicly declares that he or she likes the page, visible to other users. However, it has been shown that the profile of a social network user indeed reflects the individual user and his personality and not an ´idealized´ version of 5 themselves (Back et al. 2010). Hence, these profiles seem to be unbiased, or at least as biased as the personality tests themselves. On the other side are the Facebook pages. A page in this case can be related to anything that a user started, let it be a political attitude, an artificial person, a company or a special kind of food. Any page can be created, and every user can give it a ´Like´. Facebook, as the biggest social media network as of today (Statista 2017) offers the possibility to collect data about a user´s Facebook likes, if the user agrees to the request. Due to the generic nature of Facebook likes and the relevance of personality assessment as a crucial part of social living, this paper focuses onto machine personality prediction based on Facebook likes. However, listening to music from a certain group in a web browser or reading a certain online newspaper can be easily translated into the Facebook like analogy and vice versa, which means that findings from this study are unlikely limited to the domain of Facebook likes.
Does grass-roots civic engagement improve the quality of public services in countries in which formal oversight institutions are weak?´ It is obvious that formal oversight institutions are weak in developing countries, which causes low-quality public services. This weakness is particularly critical in the health sector - a service domain of crucial relevance for development. This observation has led practitioners to believe that the direct engagement of the beneficiaries of public services is a means to compensate the weakness of oversight institutions and to improve the quality of these services. Given that beneficiaries have incentives to demand good quality services, it is indeed logical to assume that their participation in the monitoring of public services helps to improve the quality of these very services. This positive view of grass-roots civic engagement resonates with the idea that an active civil society helps a political system to build up and sustain a high institutional performance In the eyes of the donors of development aid, this idea nurtures the expectation that strengthening civic engagement contributes to increased aid effectiveness. Accordingly, donor countries have increased their efforts to strengthen beneficiary participation since the 1990s, which moved the concepts of voice and accountability center-stage in the international development discourse. However, whether citizens´ capacity to exercise pressure on service providers and public officials really improves the effectiveness of development aid remains an unresolved question. Building upon recent experimental and comparative case study evidence, the thesis examines the role of citizens´ engagement in the effectiveness of development interventions. The focus is on such interventions in the health sector because population health is particularly critical for prosperity and development, and ultimately for democratization. The key question addressed is if and under what conditions ordinary people´s engagement in collective action and their inclination to raise their voice improves the effectiveness of development assistance for health (DAH). I analyze this question from an interactionist viewpoint, unraveling the complex interplay of civic engagement and health aid with three key institutional variables: (i) state capacity, (ii) liberal democracy and (iii) decentralized government. Drawing upon social capital theory, principal-agent theory, and selectorate theory, I provide compelling evidence that health aid effectiveness depends on (a) bo_om-up processes of demand from service users as well as (b) formal processes of top-down monitoring and horizontal oversight arrangements. In other words, the very interaction of behavioral and institutional factors drives the accountability in public service provision and thus the effectiveness of development assistance for health in recipient countries.
The process perspective provides a unifying framework that has substantially contributed to our understanding of entrepreneurship. However, much of the research up to now has neglected this process oriented conception of entrepreneurship. There is therefore a need for studies that take the inherent dynamic processes into account and analyze the underlying mechanisms when researching entrepreneurship. This dissertation aims to improve our understanding of the entrepreneurial process. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on new venture creation and the processes of sustainable opportunity identification and opportunity deviation. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction that highlights the theoretical contributions of this dissertation and gives an overview over the conducted studies. Chapter 2 argues for a process model of entrepreneurship that places entrepreneurs and their actions center stage. The model combines different perspectives and levels of analysis and provides an integrative framework for researching new venture creation. In chapter 3 we establish and test a theoretical model of sustainable opportunity identification. The chapter explains how younger generations identify sustainable opportunities. The findings indicate that sustainable opportunity identification is a process with two transitions from problem to solution identification and from solution identification to sustainable opportunity identification. These transitions are contingent on awareness of consequences and entrepreneurial attitude. Chapter 4 offers insights into how deviation from the original opportunity increases the performance of entrepreneurial teams. The findings indicate that entrepreneurial teams with a high level of error orientation set themselves higher goals when deviating from their original opportunity. Higher goals then lead to higher team performance. Chapter 5 summarizes the overall findings and outlines the general theoretical and practical implications. Each chapter thus contributes to the process perspective by focusing on how different phases of the entrepreneurial process unfold and develop over time. Thereby, this dissertation advances our understanding of entrepreneurship as a process.
Netzwerkbildung im Musiksektor Niedersachsen : Funktionsweisen und Mechanismen sozialer Formationen
(2018)
In Niedersachsen existiert eine florierende, ausdifferenzierte kulturelle Szene. Vor allem im Musikbereich sind zahlreiche, teilweise international agierende Initiativen und einige kleinere und mittlere Unternehmen wie auch Solokünstler aktiv, die in einem regen Austausch miteinander stehen. Diese Akteure treten in der Regel mit der Erwartung einer positiven Auswirkung und Nutzensteigerung einem Netzwerk bei. Selten wird jedoch hinterfragt oder im Anschluss evaluiert, inwiefern das jeweilige Netzwerk zur positiven Verstärkung der Einzelakteure, im ökonomischen wie auch im sozialen oder kulturellen Sinne geführt hat, beziehungsweise inwieweit Netzwerkbildungen auch zu negativen Effekten für ihre Akteure führen können. In dieser Dissertation wird mit qualitativen Methoden und auf theoretischer Basis der Relationalen Soziologie die Situation in Bezug auf Netzwerkbildungen im Musiksektor von Niedersachsen analysiert. Dies geschieht vor den Fragen, wer die Akteure in Niedersachsen sind, und welchen Funktionsweisen und Mechanismen ihre Vernetzungsbestrebungen unterliegen. Ferner werden die Interaktionen zwischen sozialen Akteuren und institutioneller Kulturarbeit im Musiksektor dargestellt und aufgezeigt, welche Prozesse in diesem Musiknetzwerk unter dem Einfluss institutioneller Strukturen ablaufen.
Das 21. Jahrhundert wird auch als „urban century“ bezeichnet. Der Stadtraum bietet einerseits „enger verknüpfte Kommunikationsräume und damit einen verbesserten Zugang zu Informationen aller Art“, „höheres soziales Kapital, mehr Raum für persönliche Entfaltung, Vielfalt und Innovation“ sowie „verbesserte Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe“. Andererseits sind auch Stress-faktoren, „wie Lärm und Umweltverschmutzung“, verstärkt im städtischen Raum vertreten. Zunehmend beeinträchtigen Extremwetterereignisse, wie Hitze- und Starkregen, den Lebensraum Stadt und das Wohlbefinden der Menschen. Zusätzlichen Wohnraum für mehr Menschen zu schaffen, stößt in der Stadt- und Raumplanung auf Maßnahmen zur Klimafolgenanpassung. Erholungs- und Aktivitätsräume stehen in Konkurrenz zum Ausbau der Infrastruktur, wie dem Wohnungs- und Straßenbau.
Es wird zudem die Notwendigkeit für transdisziplinäre Diskurse und Arbeitsweisen im Rahmen einer klimawandelgerechten Stadtentwicklung hergeleitet. Ziel ist die Erarbeitung von Potentialen, die sich in Lüneburg für eine Begrünung der Innenstadt bieten, um dem sich wandelnden Klima zu begegnen, sowie herauszuarbeiten welche Akteur*innen, Schlüsselfaktoren und -elemente die Umsetzung von Begrünungsmaßnahmen einschränken oder stärken. Mit der Methode der Konstellationsanalyse sollen zukunftsgerichtete und zentrale Handlungsfelder verdeutlicht werden. Es soll die Basis für eine erfolgreiche und nachhaltige Arbeitsweise sowie Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Klimafolgenanpassung in Lüneburg gelegt werden.
Seit der Jahrtausendwende sollen Schulen in Deutschland evidenzbasiert gesteuert werden. Eine wichtige Rolle spielt dabei die Rückmeldung von Informationen auf verschiedenen Ebenen des Schulsystems. Darüber, ob und wie entsprechende Maßnahmen wirken, ist bislang jedoch nur wenig bekannt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich daher mit den Fragen, ob eine evidenzbasierte Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklung im Kontext Neuer Steuerung gelingen kann, wie Wirkungen systematisch evaluiert werden können und welche Mechanismen und Kontextbedingungen dafür verantwortlich sein können, dass Wirkungen zu beobachten sind oder nicht.
In this dissertation, a multi-proxy study, which included palaeoecological, lithological, geochemical and geochronological methods, was carried out to investigate climatic and environmental changes and their interaction during the Quaternary in formerly glaciated and non-glaciated areas. The information obtained will be used to provide a better understanding of the regional stratigraphic framework and to establish broader regional terrestrial correlations within the global marine isotope stage (MIS) framework. This study was conducted on two key drillings, the Garding-2 research drill core in the German North Sea coastal area of Schleswig-Holstein and the GBY#2 archaeological core at the Gesher Benot Ya´aqov (GBY) site, in the Upper Jordan Valley in Israel. The results of this study are presented in three papers. Papers I and II focus on the study of the Garding-2 core, while the multi-proxy study of the GBY#2 core is presented in Paper III. The results of a variety of analyses conducted on the 240 m long Garding-2 sequence show interglacial-glacial cycles that are mainly controlled by variations in temperature. This sequence is composed of mainly fluvial-shallow marine sediments intercalated by muddy-peaty deposits. Based on the palynological and lithological findings, the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition was observed at 182.87 m. It is overlain by Praetiglian and the subsequent sediments of the Waalian and Bavelian Complexes. The boundary of either the second or third Cromerian Interglacial with younger sediments, which still belong to MIS 19, is marked by the last occurrence of Tsuga at 119.50 m and the development of mixed-deciduous forests. The palynologically equivalent sediments of the Bilshausen Interglacial were found below two Elsterian till layers, at 89.00 m-82.00 m. These sediments showed high and increased percentages of Pinus and Picea and scattered occurrences of Abies and Carpinus, which are similar to the features of the beginning of the Bilshausen or Rhume interglacial (Müller, 1992). An unconformity occurred at 80.29 m, at the bottom of late Holsteinian deposits, characterised by the occurrences of Fagus and Pterocarya, with low percentages of Abies and Carpinus and the absence of Buxus. These deposits are succeeded by sediments of the Fuhne cold period that shows higher percentages of NAP and occurrences of Ericales, Helianthemum and Selaginella selaginoides, which are unconformably overlain by Drenthian till at 73.00 m-71.00 m. A single peaty sample at 69.25 m with Pinus-Picea-Abies assemblage is correlated with the late Eemian Interglacial. This deposit is overlain by Weichselian glaciofluvial sediments. Middle-late Holocene sediments occurred from 20 m upwards, following a hiatus, which was caused by the Early Holocene transgression. A subsequent thin layer of marine Atlantic sediments is unconformably overlain by marine-tidal flat deposits up to 11.00 m. The first occurrence of Fagus (at 15.97 m) and Carpinus (at 15.03 m), which was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)-dated to 3130 +/- 260 BP (at 16.22 m, Zhang et al., 2014), gives evidence for a Subboreal age for these deposits. Sandy sediments of the early Subatlantic, which were deposited between 11.00 m and the top of the Garding-2 sequence, indicate that local salt marshes, dunes and tidal flat vegetation expanded during this period. Due to regional features and the peculiarities of the local coastal environment, the expansions of Fagus and Carpinus, which are characteristic for the Subboreal-Subatlantic transition at about 2700 BP in northern Germany, are not clearly reflected in the Garding-2 pollen diagram. In the Mediterranean area, a 50 m long core of GBY#2, was drilled at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya´akov. The GBY#2 core provides a long Early-Middle Pleistocene geological, environmental and climatological record, which also enriches the knowledge of hominin-habitat relationships documented at the margins of the Hula Palaeo-lake. The sediment sequence of GBY#2 is under- and overlain by two basalt flows that are 40Ar/39Ar dated: two samples at the bottom of the core dated to 1195 +/- 67 ka (at 48.30 m) and 1137 +/- 69 ka (at 45.30 m), and another one at the top dated to 659 +/- 85 ka (at 14.90 m). With the additional chronological identification of the Matuyama Brunhes Boundary (MBB) and the correlation with the GBY excavation sites, the sedimentary sequence of GBY#2 provides the climatic history during the late part of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, 1.2 Ma-0.5 Ma). Multi-proxy analyses including those of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs, macro botanical remains, molluscs, ostracods, fish, amphibians and micromammals provide evidence for lake and lake-margin environments during MIS 20 and MIS 19. During MIS 20, relatively cool semi-moist conditions were followed by a pronounced dry phase. During the subsequent MIS 19, warm and moist interglacial conditions were characterised by Quercus-Pistacia woodlands in this area. The depositional environment changed from an open water lake during MIS 20 to a lake margin environment in MIS 19. This finding is at odds with changing climate conditions from relatively dry to moist. This discrepancy could be explained by the prograding pattern of the lake shore due to the infilling of the basin, which resulted in shallower water. Climatic changes during the Late Tertiary and the Quaternary in the high latitude regions in northwest Europe and during the Early-Middle Pleistocene in the mid latitude regions of the Middle East follow the patterns of global climatic changes, which are mainly controlled by orbital obliquity (+/-41 ka cycle) during the Early Pleistocene and by orbital eccentricity (+/-100 ka cycle) during the MPT (1.2 Ma-0.5 Ma) and the younger periods of the Quaternary. The results of this study also provide reliable evidence for long distance correlation of stratigraphic and climatic events of the Quaternary, which extends knowledge of regional and global impact of climatic fluctuations on the environment.
Lehrerinnen und Lehrer benötigen professionelle Kompetenzen um den spezifischen Bedürfnissen von mehrsprachigen Schülerinnen und Schülern gerecht zu werden. Gelegenheiten zum Kompetenzerwerb im Bereich sprachlicher Heterogenität sind daher unerlässlich in der Lehramtsausbildung. Um angemessene Lerngelegenheiten identifizieren und evaluieren zu können, werden in dieser Arbeit zum einen die kognitiven und motivational-affektiven Facetten professioneller Kompetenz für den Bereich Sprachliche Heterogenität modelliert. Zum anderen werden ein Testinstrument zur Messung der kognitiven Facetten (DaZKom-Test) sowie ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung motivational-affektiver Facetten vorgestellt. Die vorliegende Arbeit informiert über die Validierung der Testwertinterpretation des DaZKom-Tests, die Identifizierung von Typen bezogen auf ihre Überzeugungen zu Mehrsprachigkeit in der Schule bei angehenden Lehrkräften, und stellt ein erweitertes theoretisches Kompetenzmodell vor, welches einen internationalen Vergleich von Kompetenzen (angehender) Lehrkräfte ermöglicht. Anhand der gewonnenen Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit ist ein besseres Verständnis der Lehramtsausbildung in Bezug auf den Umgang mit mehrsprachigen Schülerinnen und Schülern möglich.
The German energy system is under transformation. The so-called Energiewende (in English, Energy turn) relies, among other things, on renewable energies for building a more sustainable energy system. Regions (Landkreise) are one relevant level where different administrative bodies make decisions and plans both for the implementation and for the use of renewable energies. However, in order to realize the goals of the Energiewende, developments in the wider society are necessary. This is why, scientific research can and should foster such developments with more research on the social aspects of energy-related topics. The present work contributes to the understanding of transition processes towards a sustainable use of regional renewable energy by focusing on the role of contextual conditions, practical experiences, and temporal dynamics in the implementation and use of renewable energy in German regions. In this way, this work wants to contribute fostering the development of regional energy transition strategies for the realization of the Energiewende. The conceptual background for this piece of transformation research lies in three bodies of literature dealing respectively with transitions of socio-technical systems, transformations of socioecological systems, and time ecology. From a critical engagement with this literature, three main results have emerged. First, an evidence-based, spatially distinct analysis of contextual conditions for the use of renewable energy in all German regions has resulted in the identification of nine types of regions, so-called energy context types. Second, empirical research on practices in regional settings learned from the knowhow of actors from regional administration has shown that political and economic conditions are crucial as well as that process management, exchange, and learning are helpful for renewable energy implementation. Third, conceptual work about a deeper understanding of the temporal dimensions of transformation processes has made it possible to point out a three-step approach to include temporal dynamics into sustainability transformations management - the time-in-transformations-approach. The literature suggests that regions need to be treated individually; but developing an energy transition strategy for each region individually would be extremely resource intensive. Overall, my work outlines a compromise for a more efficient approach towards regional energy transition strategies which still considers the individuality of regions. As a result, I suggest to develop generic regional energy transition strategies that are adapted to each of the nine energy context types of German regions, that include the experiences of practitioners, and that consider temporal dynamics of transformation processes. Transdisciplinary research is a promising approach to meet many of the challenges for the realization of the Energiewende. A transdisciplinary steering board on the national level could create generic regional energy transition strategies that guide the energy transition and give clear goals and orientation for the realization of policies on the lower levels. On the regional level, these strategies would need to be adapted with regard to each region´s situation. Relying on the results of my research, I conclude that this could also be informed through transdisciplinary processes.
The Authority, through its planners, implements its housing and urbanizing policy at the macro level by preparing the master plan and zoning processes. How far can the Authority intervene and limit the bundle of rights of the private ownership tenure? And how can externalities be minimized in the process of transformation from the traditional quarter to the new settlement? Political values, whether tacit or explicit, are manifested in the resultant designs. A theoretical base for new urban planning guidelines involving a comprehensive study of housing in Damascus with emphasis on social and cultural factors is the ultimate aim of this research. The research starts with a historical review of the Muslim City in general and distinguishes between cities that existed before Islam and then were conquered and modified by Muslims and cities established by Muslim Authority. The focus is only on the residential quarters in the city and the local market, mosque and etc (outside the old walled city of Damascus). Other Muslim city´ urban elements such as Grand mosque, caliph´s residency, Citadel and etc. are not in the scope of this study. A brief historical review of Damascus before and during Islam and the development of residential quarters are illustrated. Later, the study analyzes the traditional residential quarter and explores the building guidelines that governed the evolution of the built form of the quarter. (Literature reviews based mainly on researches conducted by others). Then, the study explores the multi-faceted changes (economic, social and political) that the Middle Eastern region went through, in the last century, in general and the effect of those changes on the city form, case of Damascus. The effect will be traced through examining the decrees that the Authority issued in order to govern land reform and manage public and private domains. Then, the study looks at the ramifications of those decrees on the urban form of Damascus. It also investigates the decrees that were the guide for new planning and organizing developments. The study will inspect the end products of the planning and organizing process by studying several cases of building permits. Then, provides morphology of the new residential sub-quarter and its urban form. Based on lessons learned from the previous decades of housing policy, the study will recommend foundation for governmental norms to produce responsive physical and social urban forms.
Die Arbeit thematisiert den in der Frühen Bildung spezifischen Bereich des Leitens der Institution Kindertageseinrichtung´. Im Zentrum steht eine an Erkenntnissen der Füh-rungsforschung und Educational Governance Forschung mehrebenenorientierte qualitative Studie zu den Kontexten bzw. Einflüssen auf Leiten. Durchgeführt werden mit insgesamt 35 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern aus dem System Kindertageseinrichtung fünf problemzentrierte Expertinnen- und Experteninterviews, sowie begleitend Mappingverfahren. Die Auswertung wird als zusammenfassende und inhaltlich-strukturierende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse realisiert. Es wird herausgearbeitet, dass das Leiten von Kindertageseinrichtungen eingebettet ist in ein komplexes und kontingentes Gefüge verschiedener Kontextfelder, die das Leiten mit gestal-ten. In den Ergebnissen spiegeln sich u.a. drei thematische Ergebniscluster wider, mit denen neben den in der Fachdiskussion häufig thematisierten personalen Kontexten, die mit der Person der Kita-Leiterinnen und Kita-Leiter selbst verknüpft sind, und strukturell verankerten Kontexten vielfach sozial-kommunikative Kontexte verschiedener Akteursgruppen im System Kindertageseinrichtung sowie kulturelle Kontexte sichtbar werden, die soziale Interaktionen als aufeinander bezogenes Handeln als bedeutsame Einflüsse auf Leiten beschreiben. Sie verdeutlichen die von den Expertinnen und Experten wahrgenommenen gegenwärtigen Einflüsse auf das Leiten von Kindertageseinrichtungen und zeigen auch für eine positive Zu-kunft auf, dass neben personalen Einflüssen auf der einen Seite und strukturbezogenen Einflüssen auf der anderen Seite in breitem Umfang der Zusammenarbeit, der Kooperation und Beteiligung im System Kindertageseinrichtung eine wesentliche Funktion zukommt. Schlagworte: Frühkindliche Bildung, Kindertageseinrichtung, Kita-Leitung, Führung und Mana-gement in der Frühkindlichen Bildung, Bildungssteuerung, Qualitätsentwicklung, Empirische Bildungsforschung