Research Design
Social Polarisation in Vienna
Research design
We are going to work on Theories of social polarisation, theories of labour market segregation and theories of vocational training and life-long learning. We want to try to link these theories with the fields of knowledge economy and sociospatial polarisation by field research and text/document/web analysis. In the end we hopefully succeed in creating an accurate picture of the situation in Vienna and how the different phenomena and initiatives are connected to each other (how they interact, interfere and depend on each other)
Field Research:
Our focus lies on the analysis of governmental institutions.
• AMS
• WAFF
• BFI
• WIFI
• VHS
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
A, In the beginning we’ll give short descriptions of the institutions,
backgrounds and the fields they act in, by analysing webpages and PR material :
- What kind of institution is it?
- What are its main tasks?
- What is the target group of the organisation/institution?
- For whom do they offer their programme and why?
B, Interviews with resource persons in key institutions
We want to interview persons who work in the institutions we have named above. The interviews should have a structure and we’ll have some key questions but basically it should be a talk. We want to be open for inputs of our interview partners which may guide us to new directions. As preparation for the interviews we want to use the webpages and PR material of the institutions and we also try to read most of the scientific literature before the interviews.
Key questions
• In reference to the institution:
- Which persons/organisations/firms use your offers? Why?
- What are their motives and expectations?
- What are your main indicators of success and failure?
- Which concrete programs do you offer?
- Why do you offer them? Which results do you expect?
- Have the programmes been updated recently because of new (unexpected) developments?
- What are the main issues you care about in connection with these programmes?
• In reference to our special topics:
- What is the importance of learning and knowledge in your activity?
- What are for you relevant types of learning and knowledge?
- What should be learned?
- Have you heard of the pillars learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, learning to live together? What do you think about them?
- What is the definition of learning and knowledge used in your institution and your field?
- What are the links of learning and knowledge to the main activity of your organisation?
• Bridge building:
- How does your field relate to other fields?
- Other objectives and interests?
- What are possible links to other fields?
- Possible forms of cooperation towards an integral understanding of socio-economic development?
- Is it possible to link different milieus, institutions and fields?
- Is a non –dualist approach towards development feasible?
- What would be prerequisites?
- Examples? Experiments?
Interviewpartners/contact persons
• AMS
• WAFF
• BFI
• WIFI
• VHS
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
C, Analysis of documents, PR material, webpages, interviews, scientific literature
The analysis of all the written material should be guided by these headlines:
- What is different in the literature compared to our results of the field research, what is missing?
- Proper reflection to the following concepts: economic and social, rich and poor, centre and periphery, freedom and equality, efficiency and justice, competitiveness and inclusion.
WorldWideWeb:
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• AMS
• WAFF
http://www.weiterbildung.at/Default.asp?guid=8B1F1FA289084F55866AC2C771FD6743
• BFI
http://www.bfi-wien.or.at
• WIFI
http://www.wifi.at
• VHS
http://www.vhs.at/Welcome.do
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
http://www.sokrates.at/
Research design
We are going to work on Theories of social polarisation, theories of labour market segregation and theories of vocational training and life-long learning. We want to try to link these theories with the fields of knowledge economy and sociospatial polarisation by field research and text/document/web analysis. In the end we hopefully succeed in creating an accurate picture of the situation in Vienna and how the different phenomena and initiatives are connected to each other (how they interact, interfere and depend on each other)
Field Research:
Our focus lies on the analysis of governmental institutions.
• AMS
• WAFF
• BFI
• WIFI
• VHS
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
A, In the beginning we’ll give short descriptions of the institutions,
backgrounds and the fields they act in, by analysing webpages and PR material :
- What kind of institution is it?
- What are its main tasks?
- What is the target group of the organisation/institution?
- For whom do they offer their programme and why?
B, Interviews with resource persons in key institutions
We want to interview persons who work in the institutions we have named above. The interviews should have a structure and we’ll have some key questions but basically it should be a talk. We want to be open for inputs of our interview partners which may guide us to new directions. As preparation for the interviews we want to use the webpages and PR material of the institutions and we also try to read most of the scientific literature before the interviews.
Key questions
• In reference to the institution:
- Which persons/organisations/firms use your offers? Why?
- What are their motives and expectations?
- What are your main indicators of success and failure?
- Which concrete programs do you offer?
- Why do you offer them? Which results do you expect?
- Have the programmes been updated recently because of new (unexpected) developments?
- What are the main issues you care about in connection with these programmes?
• In reference to our special topics:
- What is the importance of learning and knowledge in your activity?
- What are for you relevant types of learning and knowledge?
- What should be learned?
- Have you heard of the pillars learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, learning to live together? What do you think about them?
- What is the definition of learning and knowledge used in your institution and your field?
- What are the links of learning and knowledge to the main activity of your organisation?
• Bridge building:
- How does your field relate to other fields?
- Other objectives and interests?
- What are possible links to other fields?
- Possible forms of cooperation towards an integral understanding of socio-economic development?
- Is it possible to link different milieus, institutions and fields?
- Is a non –dualist approach towards development feasible?
- What would be prerequisites?
- Examples? Experiments?
Interviewpartners/contact persons
• AMS
• WAFF
• BFI
• WIFI
• VHS
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
C, Analysis of documents, PR material, webpages, interviews, scientific literature
The analysis of all the written material should be guided by these headlines:
- What is different in the literature compared to our results of the field research, what is missing?
- Proper reflection to the following concepts: economic and social, rich and poor, centre and periphery, freedom and equality, efficiency and justice, competitiveness and inclusion.
WorldWideWeb:
bitte eure adressen einsetzen
• AMS
• WAFF
http://www.weiterbildung.at/Default.asp?guid=8B1F1FA289084F55866AC2C771FD6743
• BFI
http://www.bfi-wien.or.at
• WIFI
http://www.wifi.at
• VHS
http://www.vhs.at/Welcome.do
• Federal Ministry of Labour
• Sokrates – National Agency for lifelong-learning
http://www.sokrates.at/
Elisabeth Solacher - 6. Jun, 17:16
