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Chair of Learning and Instruction

New Publication "Collective and individual practices in popular music: Differences between semi-professionals and professionals in Austria and Germany"

Simon Schmidt and Hans Gruber published an article in the International Journal of Music Education.

New Publication "Social identity in environmental protection engagement: How are different kinds of identity related to different types of engagement?"

Barbara Hrabetz, Elisabeth Kraus and Hans Gruber published an article in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

New Publication "Specialists' views on feedback at the medical workplace"

Helen Jossberger and Miriama Schlachtová published an article in the Australian Journal of Adult Learning.

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Chair profile

Research and teaching is focused on the analysis of outstanding professional performers and educational means to foster their acquisition of expertise. Studies are conducted in a variety of domains (for example medicine, business management, science, music, and arts), using a large variety of empirical research methods (from eye-tracking analyses to biographical records of practice activities). We trust that the key to understanding reproducible superior performance is the notion that expertise can be acquired through deliberate practice. Effortful training activities lead to domain-specific cognitive, physiological, motor and perceptual adaptations. In addition to such individual adaptations, social adaptations are investigated as well in order to understand the social embedding of expertise, for example the changing participation in professional networks during the growth of individual excellence.

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