Positive teacher-student relationships have been identified as important for teacher and student well-being and for high-quality teaching and learning processes and outcomes. However, research on the perceptions of teachers in higher education on a high-quality relationship with students and the perceived antecedents is still scarce. This study aimed to address this research gap by interviewing 15 Australian higher education teachers about their perception of forming relationships with first-year students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the international study "-Children's Crisis Narrations as Spaces of Utopias of Solidarity" is to gain insights into their (living) world and perspectives on home-schooling in times of the Corona Crisis by means of crisis narratives by schoolchildren. The data collection ( = 237) is based on a special writing assignment to the pupils, in which they are asked to describe how they tell their grandchildren about the time of the Corona crisis in the fictional future in the role of the grandparents-60 years later. The task requires an anticipatory effort from the present point of view, which stimulates them to reflect on their current situation from a certain "distance" (stimulating them to adopt a perspective and to construct a "vision").
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