Yousafzai Year

Course: Children experience school as a lifeworld

Theory of the school lifeworld

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 9

Orientation

Attitude

Aim

School is to be understood as a lifeworld and place where children experience systems and figurations of values, rules, autonomy, and togetherness. School cultures reflect the relationship between individualisation and community. This course introduces theories of school, the history of ideas of modern education, and concepts of educational governance.

Content

• Discourses about schools and school theories (including institutionalism, schools and change, right to education, evidence-based)
• Understanding and comparing school systems: Development and structure of the Austrian school system in a national and international context (including multi-level school system, functions of educational standards and assessments, evidence in the school system)
• Aspects of school autonomy (including structural models, international context)
• Dimensions of school, teaching and quality development (including orientation frameworks, evaluation, data-literacy such as QMS, iKM+, IQES, evidence-based and evidenca-based-orientation)
• School as a living environment and as a learning organization (including leadership and school management, leadership culture, school program and profile building, professional learning communities, school of diversity, current developments and reforms in the school system and reflection on school experiences)
• School culture, school ethos and school climate (including school as a non-world and a non-world)
• Aspects of professional learning communities
• Legal frameworks and legal relationships
• Building a reflexive research attitude: methods of internationally comparative school system research, methods of competence measurements and scientific research using the example of school systems, school development, assessments, etc.