Johannes Bauer – författare

This volume is the first handbook that brings together cutting-edge international research on teacher ethos from a broad array of disciplines. The main focus will be on research that illustrates current conceptualizations of ethos and its importance for acting effectively and responsibly in and out of the classroom. Research will encompass updated empirical and philosophical work that points to the difference in learning when teaching is practised as a moral activity instead of a merely functional one. Authors are among the world’s foremost researchers whose work crosses over from moral education into psychology, neuroscience, sociology, philosophy, pedagogy, and curriculum, drawing on these various fields of research. 

Today, more than ever, we understand that teachers, like other professionals, need more than subject-matter expertise for acting responsibly and doing their best in their daily duties. Doing so requires possessing a guiding system of professionalethics, moral positioning, goals, norms, and values – in other words: a professional ethos. While the handbook concentrates on Western domains in the current era, the work will extend to other cultures and times as well. With this comprehensive range of perspectives, the book will be attractive and useful for researchers on teachers and teaching as well as for teacher educators, curriculum designers, educational officials, and, last-but-not-least, anyone who is interested in what makes a good teacher.

This volume is also a tribute to Fritz Oser, a leading scholar in research on ethos, who sadly passed-away during the compilation of this handbook.

Zwischen Kühlhaus und Grabkammer, Feuerbestattung und Verwesungsgeruch –

Werden Wasserleichen getrocknet? Wird Toten der Mund zugenäht? Kann ich bei der Einäscherung meiner Oma zusehen? Dürfen Bestatter mit dem Leichenwagen zum Einkaufen fahren? Wie werden die Verstorbenen versorgt? Unterscheidet sich das nach einem Suizid? Was ist eine Baumbestattung? Und sehen Särge immer gleich aus? Fragen gibt es viele, sie zu stellen traut man sich oft nicht. Obwohl er uns alle betrifft, ist der Tod immer noch ein Tabuthema – dem Luis Bauer mit seinem Buch die Schwere nimmt. Denn Berührungsängste mit dem Tod kennt der 16-Jährige Jung-Bestatter nicht.Während andere Teenager in seinem Alter sich mit Zeitungen austragen ein paar Euro dazuverdienen, ist Luis Bauer jeden Tag nach der Schule im familieneigenen Bestattungsunternehmen von Toten umgeben. Nun haben er und sein Vater die skurrilsten Geschichten und spannendsten Fakten rund ums Sterben und den Bestatter-Alltag aufgeschrieben.

Der jüngste Bestatter Deutschlands teilt sein Wissen und die unglaublichsten Erlebnisse aus sechs Generationen Bestatter-Geschichte auf Tiktok mit über einer halben Million Follower – und endlich auch zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln.

A curious ambiguity surrounds errors in professional working contexts: they must be avoided in case they lead to adverse (and potentially disastrous) results, yet they also hold the key to improving our knowledge and procedures. In a further irony, it seems that a prerequisite for circumventing errors is our remaining open to their potential occurrence and learning from them when they do happen. This volume, the first to integrate interdisciplinary perspectives on learning from errors at work, presents theoretical concepts and empirical evidence in an attempt to establish under what conditions professionals deal with errors at work productively—in other words, learn the lessons they contain. By drawing upon and combining cognitive and action-oriented approaches to human error with theories of adult, professional, and workplace learning this book provides valuable insights which can be applied by workers and professionals. It includes systematic theoretical frameworks for explaining learning from errors in daily working life, methodologies and research instruments that facilitate the measurement of that learning, and empirical studies that investigate relevant determinants of learning from errors in different professions. Written by an international group of distinguished researchers from various disciplines, the chapters paint a comprehensive picture of the current state of the art in research on human fallibility and (learning from) errors at work.