• Publishing Information
• Preface
• Field 1 - Development of schools and professionalism
• Supporting New Teachers at the Beginning of their Professional Careers: A Collegial Mentoring Project in Styria, Austria
• Using Social Software on Erasmus Exchange: A Qualitative Study of How Erasmus Outgoing Students from the University College of Teacher Education are using Social Software during their Erasmus Student Exchanges
• Happiness Makes School
• Field 2 - Early childhood
• An Analysis of Preschool Children’s Perspectives on their Relationships with Adults
• Field 3 - Language
• Support of Plurilingualism of Students in Narva College of the University of Tartu, Estonia by Implementing CLIL and Trilingual Educational Model
• Learning Space Deutschlandsberg – Creating Language Friendly Learning Environments
• MALEDIVE - Diversity in Majority Language Learning - Supporting Teacher Education
• Field 4 - Diversity
• When Perception is Upside Down
• Field 5 - Natural Science and Health
• Inquiry-based Learning and Teaching for the Development of Students’ Competences in Science
• Living with Type 1 Diabetes
• Appendix
• Editors

Preface

In the context of the COME2Graz – International Week a Scientific Meeting was held on the 16th of May 2013 at the University College of Teacher Education Styria. Guests from different European Educational Institutions and eight research teams of our University College, in all about 30 persons including some international students, participated and talked about research in schooling and teaching. They shared their diverse experiences. Ten different research studies were presented, which concern five different fields of educational research. They run as follows.

Field 1 - Development of schools and professionalism

Karin da Rocha and Andrea Holzinger present their research about supporting new teachers at the beginning of their professional careers with a collegial mentoring project in Styria. Heiko Vogl explains how to use software on Erasmus exchange and reports a qualitative study how Erasmus outgoing students from the University College of Teacher Education are using social software during their Erasmus student exchanges. Eva-Maria Chibici-Revneanu and Maria Koppelhuber are engaged as researchers with Happiness in schooling.

Field 2 - Early childhood

Angela Gastager and Bärbel Hausberger analyze the perspective of preschool children on their relationship with adults.

Field 3 - Language

Katri Raik and Nina Raud from Estonia explain a study about the implementation of CLIL orientated teaching in the curricula. Martina Huber-Kriegler, Dagmar Gilly, Eva Theißl, and Sonja Vuscina report about how to create language friendly learning environments. Dagmar Gilly presents a European project about diversity in majority language learning. This project belongs also to the following field.

Field 4 - Diversity 

Gertrude Jaritz and Birgit Schloffer speak about the special topic when the perception is upside down; it implies cerebral visually impaired children.

Field 5 - Natural Science and Health

Eduard Schittelkopf, Veronika Rechberger, and Erich Reichel demonstrate very vivid how functions inquiry-based learning and teaching for the development of students’ competence in science. Andrea Lukacs from Hungary reports her study about how is live with diabetes type 1.

With pleasure we express many thanks to Dr. Barbara Pflanzl, head of the Institute 1 Research, Transfer of Knowledge and Innovation and to Mag. Susanne Linhofer, head of the Center 2 International Relations, for supporting us; and finally we say many thanks for the science lectorate to Kim Preston.

Angela Gastager
Heiko Vogl

Graz, 29.05.2013