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Lernbegleiter Lernbegleiterin Berater Beraterin Lernberater Lernberaterin Coach Lerncoach Lehrer Lehrerinnen
No full textDie Dissertation mit dem Titel "Lernbegleiter/in, (Lern-)Berater/in, (Lern-)Coach - Zumutungen von Lehrer/innen-Rollen?!" basiert auf gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen, die zu einer Diskussion der Bildungsaufgabe von Schule führen und zum Anspruch einer Weiterentwicklung und Neukonzeption der pädagogischen Lehrer/innen-Rollen. Sie untersucht zum einen, inwieweit das aus der Literatur erhobene Verständnis der Rollen "Lernbegleiter/in", "(Lern-)Berater/in" und "(Lern-)Coach" mit Einschätzungen von in der Forschungsarbeit befragten Lehrer/innen in allgemein bildenden höheren Schulen (AHS) und Neuen Mittelschulen (NMS) in Ãsterreich übereinstimmt. Zum anderen geht sie der Frage nach, inwieweit die befragten Lehrer/innen die Ã>>bernahme der untersuchten Rollen als allen Lehrer/innen im Rahmen ihrer Professionalität zumutbar einschätzen. Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen führen die beiden Forscherinnen im Zeitraum von April bis September 2013 Interviews mit 22 Lehrer/innen an AHS und NMS in Ãsterreich durch, in deren Schulprofil sich Bezüge zu den thematisierten Rollen bzw. deren Handlungsfeldern zeigen. Die im empirischen Teil der Arbeit beschriebene schulartenübergreifende Auswertung mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ergibt, dass die Ã>>bereinstimmung des Verständnisses der Rollen in Literatur und Praxis einerseits von der Rolle abhängt und andererseits von der Fort- bzw.
Weiterbildung der Befragten. Während die Befragten die Rolle "Lernbegleiter/in" mehrheitlich als allen Lehrer/innen zumutbar einschätzen, sehen sie die Zumutbarkeit der Ã>>bernahme der Rollen "(Lern-)Berater/in" und "(Lern-)Coach" differenzierter. Vor allem die Befragten mit Fortbildungen im Umfeld der Rollen "(Lern-)Berater/in" und "(Lern-)Coach" differenzieren zwischen den zumutbaren Ausprägungen der Rollen und grenzen sich gegenüber aus ihrer Sicht unzumutbaren Aspekten ab. In diesen Erhebungen zeigt sich eine ähnlich hohe Einschà Zumutbarkeit der Befragten an AHS und NMS in Bezug auf die Rolle "Lernbegleiter/in". Mit der Rolle "(Lern-)Berater/in" identifizieren sich tendenziell eher die Befragten an AHS und mit der Rolle "(Lern-)Coach" eher die Befragten an NMS.
Schulen sind im Rahmen von Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklungsprozessen gefordert, das Verständnis von Rollen wie "Lernbegleiter/in", "(Lern-)Berater/in", und "(Lern-)Coach" im jeweiligen pädagogischen Kontext und im Kontext der gegebenen Rahmenbedingungen zu klären. Die Klärung von für die Ãbernahme der Rollen notwendigen Kompetenzen erfordert von Lehrer/innen die Bereitschaft zur berufsbegleitenden Professionalisierung.The dissertation "learning companion, (learning) consultant, (learning) coach" - unreasonable demands of teachers' roles ?!" stems from the observation of social developments which lead to a discussion of the purpose of education and claims to a change, further development and redefinition of teachers' roles in teaching. On the one hand it researches, to what extent the theoretical understanding of teachers' roles in teaching like "learning companion" "(learning) consultant", "(learning) coach", collected from literature, is in agreement with assessments by teachers at secondary schools (AHS and NMS) in Austria.
On the other hand it deals with the question to what extent these teachers view the acquisition of these roles to be reasonable for all teachers within the framework of their professionalism. To answer these research questions the two researchers conduct interviews in the period from April to September 2013 with 22 teachers at secondary schools (AHS and NMS) in Austria, with a reference to the themed roles or their fields of action in the profiles of their schools.
In the empirical part of the survey an across school type qualitative content analysis shows that the answer to what extent the understanding of the roles in literature and practice match, on the one hand depends on which role the question is aimed at and on the other hand on the extent and nature of the training and continuing education of the respondents. In their responses the interviewed teachers tend to view the "learning companion" as being reasonable for all teachers. The study shows that the respondents view the reasonableness for accepting the roles "(learning) consultant" and "(learning)coach" differentiatedly.
Especially the respondents with training or further education and competences in these roles tend to differentiate and make efforts to dissociate themselves from some aspects of these roles. It can be said the results of this survey show that a similar assessment in relation to the role of "learning companion" of respondents from AHS and NMS is reflected in these surveys. Respondents from AHS tend to identify themselves with the role "(learning) consultant" and surveyed from NMS tend to identify themselves with the role "(learning) coach". It can be recommended to clarify the understanding of the roles "learning companion", "(learning) consultant" and "(learning) coach" in the educational context and the related framework conditions in schools.
The clarification of essential competences necessary to acquire aspects of one of these roles calls for willingness of teachers to take part in ongoing in-service professionalization.Monika Perkhofer-Czapek und Renate PotzmannAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des VerfassersZsfassung in engl. Sprache. - Im Inhaltsverz. die Teile den Verf. zugeordnetKlagenfurt, Alpen-Adria-Univ., Diss., 201
A HIGH RESOLUTION TEMPERATURE CLIMATOLOGY FOR THE GREATER ALPINE REGION (GAR)
No full textThe Greater Alpine Region (the GAR) covering the area between 4-19°E and 43-50°N and an altitude range between 0 and more than 4000 m asl. offers a challenging climate worth to be studied in any detail. However, it is surprising that up to now no comprehensive Alpine Temperature Climatology covering the whole region is existing. To overcome this deficiency as a first step we want to produce monthly temperature maps for this region in spatial resolution as high as possible. The period under investigation will be 1961-1990. In this paper we will describe the first steps of our initiative as well as the further plans
A new instrumental precipitation dataset for the greater alpine region for the period 1800-2002
No full textThe paper describes the development of a dataset of 192 monthly precipitation series covering the greater alpine region (GAR, 4-18°E by 43-49°N). A few of the time series extend back to 1800. A description is provided of the sometimes laborious processes that were involved in this work: from locating the original sources of the data to homogenizing the records and eliminating as many of the outliers as possible. Locating the records required exhaustive searches of archives currently held in yearbooks and other sources of the states, countries and smaller regional authorities that existed at various times during the last 200 years. Homogeneity of each record was assessed by comparison with neighbouring series, although this becomes difficult when the density of stations reduces in the earliest years. An additional 47 series were used, but the density of the sites in Austria and Switzerland was reduced to maintain an even coverage in space across the whole of the GAR. We are confident of the series back to 1840, but the quality of data before this date must be considered poorer. Of all of the issues involved in homogenizing these data, perhaps the most serious problem is associated with the differences in the height above ground of the precipitation gauges, in particular the general lowering of gauge heights in the late 19th century for all countries, with the exception of Italy. The standard gauge height in the early-to-mid 19th century was 15-30 m above the ground, with gauges being generally sited on rooftops. Adjustments to some series of the order of 30-50% are necessary for compatibility with the near-ground location of gauges during much of the 20th century. Adjustments are sometimes larger in the winter, when catching snowfall presents serious problems. Data from mountain-top observatories have not been included in this compilation (because of the problem of measuring snowfall), so the highest gauge sites are at elevations of 1600-1900 m in high alpine valley locations. Two subsequent papers will analyse the dataset. The first will compare the series with other large-scale precipitation datasets for this region, and the second will describe the major modes of temporal variability of precipitation totals in different seasons and determine coherent regions of spatial variability
HISTALP - historical instrumental climatological surface time series for the Greater Alpine Region
No full textThis paper describes the HISTALP database, consisting of monthly homogenised records of temperature, pressure, precipitation, sunshine and cloudiness for the 'Greater Alpine Region' (GAR, 4-19 degrees E, 43-49 degrees N, 0-3500m asl). The longest temperature and air pressure series extend back to 1760, precipitation to 1800, cloudiness to the 1840s and sunshine to the 1880s. A systematic QC procedure has been applied to the series and a high number of inhomogeneities (more than 2500) and outliers (more than 5000) have been detected and removed. The 557 HISTALP series are kept in different data modes: original and homogenised, gap-filled and outlier corrected station mode series, grid-1 series (anomaly fields at 1 degrees *1 degrees , lat * long) and Coarse Resolution Subregional (CRS) mean series according to an EOF-based regionalisation. The leading climate variability features within the GAR are discussed through selected examples and a concluding linear trend analysis for 100, 50 and 25-year subperiods for the four horizontal and two altitudinal CRSs. Among the key findings of the trend analysis is the parallel centennial decrease/increase of both temperature and air pressure in the 19th/20th century. The 20th century increase (+1.2 degrees C/+1.1 hPa for annual GAR-means) evolved stepwise with a first peak near 1950 and the second increase (1.3 degrees C/0.6hPa per 25 years) starting in the 1970s. Centennial and decadal scale temperature trends were identical for all subregions. Air pressure, sunshine and cloudiness show significant differences between low versus high elevations. A long-term increase of the high-elevation series relative to the low-elevation series is given for sunshine and air pressure. Of special interest is the exceptional high correlation near 0.9 between the series on mean temperature and air pressure difference (high-minus low-elevation). This, further developed via some atmospheric statics and thermodynamics, allows the creation of 'barometric temperature series' without use of the measures of temperature. They support the measured temperature trends in the region. Precipitation shows the most significant regional and seasonal differences with, e.g., remarkable opposite 20th century evolution for NW (9% increase) versus SE (9% decrease). Other long- and short-term features are discussed and indicate the promising potential of the new database for further analyses and applications
Distance in spatial interpolation of daily rain gauge data
No full textSpatial interpolation of rain gauge data is important in forcing of hydrological simulations or evaluation of weather predictions, for example. The spatial density of available data sites is often changing with time. This paper investigates the application of statistical distance, like one minus common variance of time series, between data sites instead of geographical distance in interpolation. Here, as a typical representative of interpolation methods the inverse distance weighting interpolation is applied and the test data is daily precipitation observed in Austria. Choosing statistical distance instead of geographical distance in interpolation of an actually available coarse observation network yields more robust interpolation results at sites of a denser network with actually lacking observations. The performance enhancement is in or close to mountainous terrain. This has the potential to parsimoniously densify the currently available observation network. Additionally, the success further motivates search for conceptual rain-orography interaction models as components of spatial rain interpolation algorithms in mountainous terrain
The climate growth relationship of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) exposed to soil dry condition in the Dolomites, eastern Italia Alps.
No full textPotential climatic transitions with profound impact on Europe
No full textWe discuss potential transitions of six climatic subsystems with large-scale impact on Europe, sometimes denoted as tipping elements. These are the ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica, the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, Arctic sea ice, Alpine glaciers and northern hemisphere stratospheric ozone. Each system is represented by co-authors actively publishing in the corresponding field. For each subsystem we summarize the mechanism of a potential transition in a warmer climate along with its impact on Europe and assess the likelihood for such a transition based on published scientific literature. As a summary, the ‘tipping’ potential for each system is provided as a function of global mean temperature increase which required some subjective interpretation of scientific facts by the authors and should be considered as a snapshot of our current understanding. <br/
Correlation of Glacier ELA/Snowlines & Temperature Station data with ERA5 Temperature and Wind Speed, 1979 to 2017
No full textThis dataset contains the gridded correlation results from a study that sought to better understand the climatic footprint monitored by antipodal mid-latitude glacier populations. Understanding the links between glaciers and climate is critical for accurately interpreting contemporary cryosphere changes, and interrogating the causes of past glacier behavior. However, work is still needed to refine the extent to which they capture regional to hemisphere-scale atmospheric processes. A Pearson's correlation was performed between yearly summer seasonal data from the ERA5 gridded reconstructions of global temperature and wind changes on each available ERA5 pressure level and yearly glacier snowline/ELA elevations in the Southern Alps of New Zealand and in the European Alps. December-Febuary austral summer data was correlated with the Southern Alps records and June-August Northern Hemisphere summer data was correlated with the European Alps. The ERA5 input dataset was regridded onto a new monthly axis representing the true month lengths. Then the weighted seasonal average (December-February and June-August) was calculated. Individuals glaciers with Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA; European Alps) and End of Summer Snowlines (EOSS; Southern Alps) were selected with respective records covering at least 80% of the 1979-2017/15 analysis period. The records from each glacier were then standardized and an EOF analysis was performed to obtain each location's First Principle Component for input into the Pearson's Correlation.
A nearly identical set of analyses was performed using weather stations temperature data instead of glacier ELA/snowlines. The New Zealand station equivalent is from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) New Zealand seven-station (NZ7S) series. The European Alps equivalent is from the HistAlp regional weather station syntheses. This companion analysis allows the glacier's ability to record the climate to be compared to that of meteorological instruments
Global Early Instrumental Monthly Meteorological Multivariable Database (HCLIM)
No full textThere is a growing need for past weather and climate data to support science and decision-making. This paper describes the compilation and the construction of a global multivariable (air temperature, pressure, precipitation sum, number of precipitation days) monthly instrumental climate database that encompasses a substantial body of the known early instrumental time series. The dataset contains series compiled from existing databases that start before 1890 (though continuing to the present) as well as a large amount of newly rescued data. All series underwent a quality control procedure and subdaily series were processed to monthly mean values. An inventory was compiled, and the collection was deduplicated based on coordinates and mutual correlations. The data are provided in a common format accompanied by the inventory. The collection totals 12452 meteorological records in 118 countries. The data has been merged from 18250 original data files. The data can be used for climate reconstructions and analyses. It is the most comprehensive global monthly climate data set for the preindustrial period
