Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sample Letter After Funer

Open the .- thanks unibrennt

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Thanks to the extended library opening times (from 17:00 to 21:00) to learn there are actually more ago. Towards the end, when everything is nice and quiet and relaxed, just sitting at each table a / a student is taught to the roof terrace at sunset, one can almost speak of university chill character.

After two months are now the first results from Personnel Psychology come. Although common, but with a 3 looks forward to each other 4 or 5 of the other (over 100 are still pending) so that your own performance then slides over the average. And it is annoyed by those who already have a second or third time and had begun leading to a better grade. When calculating the grade point average multiple attempts at the test does not count.
the fight for Seminar's are heated up.

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came across a thesis, the results of interviews with 40 students (table 20 Austria, 20 German) are published
As to the selection pressure statements came as this:

"It is of course a work pressure among the students, ie a competition, that is so who is better now, and whoever comes in which seminars, and pah what you have for music. I mean, for me would always have been the university, even after you go out of the auditorium and discussed more about what you have learned now. And now it is simply that, you complain that you have now heard so much again, and you can learn niemlas. It is simply not true that you ask, oh what you heard or learned in class, but you will more likely ask, and what have you so for a note? Are you in the seminar come in? Since you just do not know what is now meant well, as interest in the opposite, or if the competition is more likely Sun That's never been entirely transparent. "

" Since there is almost existential anxiety for some, that is really pure panic. Will I still get my diploma. So we have set a time where we need to do it, and we are just too many. And then you get no course, is in no seminar wait more pure, must. Which of course again extended the time that you need until you are ready, and as things are heated, yes. "

" and above all, it is always like that, Oh God, the master! And since you have such and such a note have and wants to have any uh Masters course, can not know. "

" Even through this mass assessment, it is then again so that then, as in the school, which is only there to judge me, and uh impart the knowledge is again more in the background, but, I must test, manage again because I have to create a good note, because it is so important because it is the only one where you can succeed again. "

The undergraduate student states," a selection of very high pressure is perceived pressure to perform by competition experience, and not by performance requirement. This is not the fear of the power requirements not to focus enough to be special the fear worse than colleagues, and sorted out so to be "

fact, surprising that the atmosphere is considered among the students in still rated relatively well:

2 votes (German students) for". very good "
9 German, 5 Austrian votes for" good "
4 deutschhe, 10 Austrian votes for" mediocre "
3 German, 2 Austrian votes for" bad "

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What Does The Colour Of The Wart Mean





Since the beginning of the week it was, on cognitive performance tests grappling to clarify with the subject the following question "In the context of the forthcoming Masters Entrance Examination (Department of Psychology) xy woman is approached with a request to me to make statements about the degree of their cognitive capacity to give this test for a possible start of motivational basis and decision support.."




With an IQ of 112 is a man not so bad, just 3 points from the above average. Only 3 points away from the warm reception of the master of psychology. With an IQ of 112 exceeds 79% of the people from the rest of humanity, or the Western-oriented man. So then if one with an IQ of 112 with the O-bus once travels across Salzburg, he is gscheit as every 3rd the is picked up, just like every 4th gscheit Bled and than every 5th And if we teach our children in kindergarten assessment such as this affected patterns of thinking, then we must make our future any more worries.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Missed Period And Constant Discharge

Why not have a guilty conscience needs .. .

... if these test scores are not above average
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/ronald/diff/fb03.html


happiness measurement error:
77% of respondents are representative to the 25% of the happiest

One explanation comes from Fromm

Friday, June 18, 2010

Combat Action Badge With A Star

Teaching Report 2009/10 unibrennt and Bologna

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Yesterday, on "Day of Teaching" was the problem vs training. Education discussed. A topic that is discussed in the then presented Teaching Report 2009/10, which I believe now in the hands, at the very first pages. In the foreground is a quite clear consensus between the university and the top students, even if this consensus is less with increasing differentiation of Problemematik themselves but also the unibrennt movement with increasing differentiation in demand can not yet certain. Especially in the context of the question, how far form the University for Business shall, to prepare the the student for use in economically viable areas of disagreement. What, however, all agree, and that's nothing new that is in the implementation of the bachelor / master system, still some improvement. The criticisms of the Bologna process are treated in the Teaching Report on the first few pages. Study plans are not studyable, overflowing with content, transplants and inert. With the set entitled to 2013 qualifications must strike a balance between the demands of the business / politics and interests of the economically neutral research and education to be created. Goal, the report Teaching, is to make the Bachelor to a scientific professional education, and a master's degree as part-time to create. The usefulness of the master immediately adjacent to the Bachelor, to be extended to 4 years to study, is to follow the report to reconsider.

What is currently a part-time Master's specifications for the psychology student? enter with the bachelor in the psychological profession is likely to be difficult, since even hard with a master's degree in psychology is to get a job immediately. Since the psychological activity is usually in a very sensitive area, it is taken only after separate (off) usually in clinical training and health care as a service (70% -80% of psychologists are here employed or freelance). In which professional work is the Bachelor in Psychology move in the wake of his master's program should now be left open.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

How To Get A Title From Bill Of Sale

the eternal song of

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The most recent meeting in Clinical Psychology will then probably take place tomorrow. If passed, one gets some in duty seminars. We can only hope to escape the common waiting lists.
against access restrictions and change the academic structure is despite protests from crowded university and increasing access to education for average intelligence, and with good reason. The motive is

to miss a touch of the Department of Psych Elite, and Elite for high-quality human resource that we have as part of the curriculum change increases the number of selection events for education and evaluation of performance and the informal learning the cooking made, cut the extrinsic motivation of the students inside and introduced the criterion of learning in the short time frame. This one has created less Studierplätze, instead of more. With the curricula of the 90 even 500 people per semester education would have been allowed to do, now may begin only 200 each year to be approved with the hope after 3 years of completing their studies. (The number of newly registered from year low after year, We were still 278)

The motive to increase the quality of the studies, fewer and fewer students are more and more teachers in hot-button controls and employment checks.
The question is to what extent learning under duress and time constraints, and the strict requirement of various testing and training procedures can improve the quality of graduates.
is the second question, to what extent the changes in the curriculum is still moving in the appropriate ethical framework. There are no little students who compete for a single work, not for the entrance examination for the master, may still visit in the coming year, any course from the master's program.
Furthermore one has managed to diligent and competent student inside to deter such an extent that take them to the Bachelor, and run as fast as possible, away from the university, pale and emaciated, with no more just a spark of vitality, with the experience, the wrong time the wrong place .

As for me all this? Reference on mirror neurons, which make one suffer when others suffer. Well, and then probably also the fact that only stay for 2 years, otherwise he grabs me, the bachelor / master plan.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Rite Aid Thin Positive

Credo

end of the semester, in the middle of the learning phase, but lost in the joy of prerequisite chains, went to the matter itself does not, however, one wishes for CS's claims as Credo

I believe in the power of the bureaucracy, to the ownership of professors and students. I believe in the eternal healing, through the removal of accreditation and evaluation, I believe in the holy resolution of the elite-oriented presidents, I believe in the public discourse of society, reducing the power of university leaders and eternal learning end.

Source:
http://derstandard.at/1276043673065/Kommentar-der-anderen-Generation-Bologna-Belogen-und-bestohlen

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Wen I Bend Over My Testies Hurt

Pics the demonstration in Salzburg

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Acrostic For Forgiveness

Education is carried to the grave

"With gain knowledge about themselves and the world, people's ability to see through the conditions of their lives in full scope, their relationships and their causes. They understand that constitute the defining features of their life, not an insurmountable fate and thus gain the ability to emancipate themselves from the status quo in the given articulating impositions of authority and power. " Erich Ribolits, education-term struggle or pathos formula? Burns in college. Basic Critical Atmospheric, ed. v. Heiss, Mark, Schramm, Sniesko, sweet. Vienna 2010 Page 43-49




Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Belly Lumps In Beagles

About Elite and Matthew principle



job performance, social background and being placed in a stable social group, a high degree of power on economic, political, administrative and judicial elite is different from the ordinary, the excellence of the masses (Hartmann 2002, 2004). This also applies to universities, whose peak position is given by academic reputation, financial resources and selectivity of the student selection.

Does it have a university done once in the VIP lounge, the beginning of a cycle, with critical exposure value: the university with the most money can hire the most sought-after scientists and outdo the competition by better mass pushing universities to the brink of a qualitative existence. Once public funds are saved, if "mass" universities (state universities) in competition from even more, which leads to a further rise of the elite universities. Financial strength and reputation form a mutually reinforcing mechanism, which affects the selectivity heavily in the selection of students. The higher financial status, power and social reputation of the university, the sooner she can be Afford to take only the "best" students. "Best" Students bring the following requirements: They are powerful, wealthy, and leadership skills and willingness and drive the revenues of the elite university in the next level. It applies the principle of Matthew: "Whoever has will be given"
the example of Baden-Wurttemberg, the mechanism described above is obvious that the richest province is from 7% fewer students than it has high school graduates, it exported students, relieved himself and charged the other provinces. Her Excellency consolidates and expands.

to As for the selection of students, so it goes Hartman follow, no longer primarily about performance, read, but to social selection. Children of rich parents, children of the "ruling class" are the majority of the students. (Bourdieu 2004, p. 168F.), The one for the payment of their benefits, partly because of the possibility of excellent education and support during the entire childhood. Hart we speak here of the transformation mechanisms of inherited Kaptials Kaptial in school.

should now take a decision in the public debate be made for the people to higher education there is to Bowen, Kurzweil, Tobin (Bowen / Kurzweil / Tobin 2005, p. 1 ff, p. 39, p. 72, p. 258f) two decision alternatives:.. Either one decides for peak performance for a small number of people, this makes for the intellectual elite, to powerful and competitive leaders or deciding make itself, a large number of people Education and Science, renounces an elite society forward in the few and the rest no seats.




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Sources:

Hartmann, Michael: The Myth of the power elites. Top careers and social Herkunftn in business, politics, law and science. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2002


Hartmann, Michael: Elite sociology. An introduction. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2004 (English edition: Sociology of Elites. London: Routledge 2006)
Hartmann, Michael: student fees and access to higher education: vs. USA? In: Leviathan 33 (2005), 439-463







Hartmann, Michael: Elite - Mass. In: Stephan Lessenich / Frank zero Meier (ed.): Germany A divided society. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2006, p. 192-209