Die Bahnhofsmission – Ort gelebter Ökumene. Theologische Reflexionen

Abstract This article examines the questions of why the ›Bahnhofsmission‹ is suitable as a seismograph of social change, how it performs this function, what it can achieve and where its limits lie. This is done with the help of self-reflection of the practice of the ›Bahnhofsmission‹ and by unfolding practical examples. The seismograph function is described as a task of the ›Bahnhofsmission‹ that goes beyond the core of individual case assistance and is of benefit to society as a whole. This involves drawing attention to changes at an early stage in order to identify structures of poverty and injustice as causes of need for help as well as of exclusion and to contribute to the elimination of those structures. Due to their location at the station and their open, low-threshold concept, ›Bahnhofsmissionen‹ have an excellent seismographic potential. Where they succeed in raising this potential, they can become incubators for innovation.

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Die Bahnhofsmission als Seismograph gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung

Evangelische Theologie ◽

10.14315/evth-2021-810406 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 81 (4) ◽

pp. 267-275

Author(s):

Gisela Sauter-Ackermann

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Early Stage ◽

Individual Case ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Threshold Concept ◽

Low Threshold ◽

The Individual

Abstract This article examines the question of why the ›Bahnhofsmission‹ is suitable as a seismograph of social change, how it performs this function, what it can achieve with it and where the limits of its possibilities lie. This is done with the help of self-reflection from the practice of the ›Bahnhofsmission‹ and with the help of practical examples. The seismograph function is described as a task of the station mission that goes beyond the individual case assistance and is of benefit to society as a whole. This involves drawing attention to changes at an early stage in order to identify structures of poverty and injustice as causes of need for help and exclusion and to contribute to their elimination. Due to their location at the station and their open, low-threshold concept, station missions have an excellent seismographic potential. Where they succeed in raising this potential, they can become incubators for innovation.

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How do Players and Developers of Citizen Science Games Conceptualize Skill Chains?

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ◽

10.1145/3474671 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (CHI PLAY) ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Josh Aaron Miller ◽

Britton Horn ◽

Matthew Guthrie ◽

Jonathan Romano ◽

Guy Geva ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Free Recall ◽

Citizen Science ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Cognitive Task ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Self Reflection ◽

The Core ◽

Big Picture ◽

Prior Literature ◽

Structure Of Knowledge

For citizen science games (CSGs) to be successful in advancing scientific research, they must effectively train players. Designing tutorials for training can be aided through developing a skill chain of required skills and their dependencies, but skill chain development is an intensive process. In this work, we hypothesized that free recall may be a simpler yet effective method of directly eliciting skill chains. We elicited 23 skill chains from players and developers and augmented our reflexive thematic analysis with 11 semi-structured interviews in order to determine how players and developers conceptualize skill trees and whether free recall can be used as an alternative to more resource-intensive cognitive task analyses. We provide three main contributions: (1) a comparison of skill chain conceptualizations between players and developers and across prior literature; (2) insights to the process of free recall in eliciting CSG skill chains; and (3) a preliminary toolkit of CSG skill-based design recommendations based on our findings. We conclude CSG developers should: give the big picture up front; embrace social learning and paratext use; reinforce the intended structure of knowledge; situate learning within applicable, meaningful contexts; design for discovery and self-reflection; and encourage practice and learning beyond the tutorial. Free recall was ineffective for determining a traditional skill chain but was able to elicit the core gameplay loops, tutorial overviews, and some expert insights.

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“Clicking vs. Writing”—The Impact of a Chatbot’s Interaction Method on the Working Alliance in AI-based Coaching

Coaching | Theorie & Praxis ◽

10.1365/s40896-021-00063-3 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa Mai ◽

Caterina Neef ◽

Anja Richert

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Working Alliance ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Interaction Method ◽

Self Reflection ◽

Rule Based System ◽

Technical Realization ◽

Low Threshold ◽

Exam Anxiety ◽

The Impact

AbstractCoaching has become an important didactic tool for reflecting learning processes in higher education. Digital media and AI-based technologies such as chatbots can support stimulating self-coaching processes. For the use case of student coaching on the topic of exam anxiety, the working alliance between a coaching chatbot and a human coachee is investigated. Two coachbot interaction methods are compared: A click-based chatbot (implemented in a rule-based system), where the coachee can only click on one answer, and a writing-based chatbot (implemented in a conversational AI), which allows the coachee to freely type in their answers. The focus is on which coachbot interaction method enables a stronger working alliance between coach and coachee: a click-based or a writing-based chatbot. The working alliance and the technical realization of the chatbot systems were investigated in an exploratory quantitative study with 21 engineering students. The results indicate that the working alliance in both study conditions can be classified as medium to high overall. The results further show higher values for bonding on a writing-based platform than when using a click-based system. However, click-based systems seem to be more helpful as a low-threshold entry point to coaching, as they guide coachees better through the process by providing predefined answers. An evaluation of the technical realization shows that self-reflection processes through digital self-coaching via chatbot are generally well accepted by students. For further development and research, it is therefore recommendable to develop a “mixed” coachbot that allows interaction via clicking as well as via free writing.

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How to Produce Novelty? Creating, Borrowing, Modifying, Repeating And Forgetting: The Process of Contemporary Fashion Aesthetics

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies ◽

10.25038/am.v0i19.310 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 101

Author(s):

Ruhan Liao

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

Early Stage ◽

Cycle Duration ◽

Subjective Experiences ◽

The Core ◽

Logical Sequence ◽

The Future

The aesthetics of fashion can be regarded as the aesthetics of novelty since constant changes make novelty the core of fashion. Based on Colin Campbell’s theory, novelty is a judgment about our subjective experiences, indicating something we never experienced before. In the early stage of the fashion system, designers led fashion trends by creating brand-new items or borrowing foreign elements. Then, as the pace of fashion circulation increased, designers started to produce novelty by modifying details, or by repeating what was in fashion long before. Hence, fashion became cyclical. And the cycle duration would become shorter and shorter as the repetition sped up. At this stage, novelty is not based on whether the item is brand-new, but whether we still remember it. In the future, maybe the repeating of the old cannot maintain the feeling of novelty any more since the pace of fashion change is too quick to give enough time for the new to become old and forgotten. At that time, the novelty will not be based on whether we still remember it, but whether we want to forget it. Therefore, with the acceleration of fashion change, the method of how fashion produces novelty has gone through a logical sequence as follows: creating something brand-new, borrowing foreign elements, modifying details, repeating the forgotten old, and forgetting what is still new. Novelty has gone through a process from ‘externally determined’ to ‘internally determined’, moving to the direction of ‘self-deception determined’. Article received: April 20, 2019; Article accepted: June 15, 2019; Published online: September 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Ruhan, Liao. "How to Produce Novelty? Creating, Borrowing, Modifying, Repeating And Forgetting: The Process of Contemporary Fashion Aesthetics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 19 (2019): 101-107. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i19.310

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A Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Culturally Humble Educational Practitioners

10.4018/978-1-7998-8532-0.ch001 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Veronica Keiffer-Lewis

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Personal Development ◽

Diversity Training ◽

Identity Negotiation ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Conflict Transformation ◽

Cultural Humility ◽

Full Extent ◽

Self Reflection

Although diversity training has become an institutional norm for businesses, schools, and organizations, the full extent of its impact remains unclear. This chapter reports on research aimed as more fully understanding the transformational journeys of diversity practitioners and discovering how they deepen their sense of cultural humility. Following a review of the evolution of diversity training, the chapter presents a theoretical framework featuring five interrelated transformational processes: dialogue, inquiry, self-reflection, conflict transformation, and identity negotiation. The chapter concludes with a discussion about how these processes can be applied to enhance the development of cultural humility and consequently better achieve the desired outcomes of diversity training. It argues for a multi-year model for the training of diversity practitioners and others committed to personal development and social change as well as a lifelong approach that supports the process of moving more deeply into a culturally humble way of being.

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Societies of the Possible

The Possible ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197520499.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 148-172

Author(s):

Vlad P. Glăveanu

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Historical Time ◽

The Core ◽

Form Of Government ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Core Concepts ◽

Communal Living ◽

Democratic Systems

This chapter uses the core concepts of position, perspective, and dialogue to analyze the workings of society. From this standpoint, we cannot conceive the possible outside of a societal framework given the fact that societies, all over the world and across historical time, comprise a variety of positions and, through the accumulation and transmission of culture, allow the development of perspectives, including on society itself. At the same time, societies are constantly transformed by the sense of possibility that fuels social change, activism, and the imaginative construction of the future in utopias and dystopias. Democratic systems, built on plurality and dialogue, tend in principle to expand the possible for individuals and communities adopting them. And yet democracies, as both a form of government and a way of living, are inherently fragile. In the end, societies of the possible are both an ontological condition for human communal living and a reality that should not be taken for granted.

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Personal Freedom and Identity Representation Performance in Modern Urban Subculture

Materials Science Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.931.770 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 931 ◽

pp. 770-775

Author(s):

Maria V. Timashova

Keyword(s):

Identity Formation ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Urban Culture ◽

Multiple Identities ◽

Self Reflection ◽

The Core ◽

Modern Cities ◽

Identity Representation ◽

The City ◽

Dense Concentration

Conglomerations of modern cities are becoming increasingly fractional/disintegrated. An urban person turns into a special type of a person called “homo urbis”, capable of living in a "stone jungle" of performance, in a dense concentration of urban culture objects and amongst the most heterogeneous human mass. The modern civilizational paradigm predetermines the dynamics of the processes of socio-cultural personal identity formation performance in urban culture environment, as well as its globalization and glocalization. The very phenomenon of personal identity in modern urban culture falls into the spectrum of multiple "identities", its evolutionary and critical performance processes. All socio-cultural and civilizational interactions of urban cultural environment are mixed up in existential contradictions. Clear and distinct bases of the traditional world are giving way to civilizationally complex chaos, diverse cultural multilayer and their intricate interlacement. The coexistence of numerous axiological patterns, stereotypes, narratives and metanarratives of the city result in colossal ideological and spiritual tension, where a person has been considered the core of the concentration of the crisis problems since the Socratic anthropological turn. In this connection, the problem of determination and creation of an urban personality, by all means, should be supplemented with the most important heuristic and ontological component – the search for personal identity, as the correlation of the ever-forming civilizational mass of existence with the process of self-reflection of an individual.

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Impact of Heterogeneity on the Transient Gas Flow Process in Tight Rock

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12183559 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (18) ◽

pp. 3559 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jia ◽

Tsau ◽

Barati ◽

Zhang

Keyword(s):

History Matching ◽

Gas Flow ◽

Preferential Flow ◽

Early Stage ◽

Ideal Gas ◽

Flow Path ◽

Flow Process ◽

The Core ◽

Porosity And Permeability ◽

Preferential Flow Path

There exits a great challenge to evaluate the flow properties of tight porous media even at the core scale. A pulse-decay experiment is routinely used to measure the petrophysical properties of tight cores including permeability and porosity. In this study, 5 sets of pulse-decay experiments are performed on a tight heterogeneous core by flowing nitrogen in the forward and backward directions under different pressures under pore pressures approximately from 100 psi to 300 psi. Permeability values from history matching are from about 300 nD to 600 nD which shows a good linear relationship with the inverse of pore pressure. A preferential flow path is found even when the microcrack is absent. The preferential path causes different porosity values using differential initial upstream and downstream pressure. In addition, the porosity values calculated based on the forward and backward flow directions are also different, and the values are about 1.0% and 2.3%, respectively, which is the primary novelty of this study. The core heterogeneity effect significantly affects the very early stage of pressure responses in both the upstream and downstream but the permeability values are very close in the late-stage experiment. We proposed that that there are two reasons for the preferential flow path: the Joule–Thomson effect for non-ideal gas and the core heterogeneity effect. Based on the finding of this study, we suggest that very early pressure response in a pulse-decay experiment should be closely examined to identify the preferential flow path, and failure to identify the preferential flow path leads to significant porosity and permeability underestimation.

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Entrepreneurial selling in context

Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1108/jrme-05-2018-0030 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 103-125

Author(s):

Linden Dalecki

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Early Stage ◽

Marketing Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Entrepreneurial Success ◽

Content Type ◽

Customer Feedback ◽

The Core ◽

Four Quadrant ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a general review of the existing academic and practitioner literatures, pertaining to entrepreneurial selling with a view to articulate major entrepreneurial selling practices, patterns and principles that lead to entrepreneurial success and to propose two four-quadrant matrices. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores commonalities and distinctions in the entrepreneurial selling concepts articulated by Deutsch and Wortmann and Onyemah and Rivera-Pesquera – and relevant writings by Blank as well as Sarasvathy – are explored and analyzed. Findings It was found that the early stage entrepreneurial selling activities of founders – as a means of gleaning prospective customer feedback for product prototyping – form the core of contemporary entrepreneurial selling conceptualizations. Two provisional four-quadrant entrepreneurial selling matrices are proposed corresponding to the literature reviewed. Research limitations/implications It is hoped that the two four-quadrant matrices might serve as a springboard for future researchers interested in exploring entrepreneurial selling. The notion of preliminary selling as a valuable form of marketing research is also worthy of future research. Practical implications Given the extent to which the perspectives of entrepreneurship practitioners, clinical professors and consultants are cited and explored, manifold aspects of entrepreneurial selling are put forth. The various approaches to preliminary selling that are explored are of especially high value to practitioners. Originality/value This is the first paper to fully explore the commonalities and distinctions across the entrepreneurial selling conceptualizations developed by Deutsch and Wortmann, as well as by Onyemah and Rivera-Pesquera, and the first to propose a conceptual framework focused specifically on entrepreneurial selling.

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