Topic-centered interaction

What is this episode about?
In this peer lecture, Nina Gbur talks about her perspective on Topic-Centered Interaction - TCI for short. TCI can be understood as a comprehensive, holistic leadership concept that aims to enable people to consciously and appreciatively shape a wide variety of interaction situations. TCI focuses on leadership actions in group processes with regard to the question of how joint work can be organized while maintaining successful relationships. Lively joint learning is central to this. In this lecture, Nina Gbur reports on how her work benefits from TCI. Using practical examples, she will explain how TCI can be applied in a wide variety of educational situations (e.g. in seminars, at conferences, in team meetings, etc.) and explain the concept of TCI in detail.

Before we start:
The episode ,,Topic-Centered Intercation'' is just over 30 mins long, making it a little longer than your average evening school play. It is structured around questions and is therefore quite entertaining, in our opinion.

The central question is:
To what extent does political education benefit from theme-centered interaction?

Who am I listening to?
Nina Gbur is Managing Director of the Saxon Network for Democracy and Courage (NDC).

Further reading:
Cohn, R. C. (2004): From Psychoanalysis to Theme-Centered Interaction. From a treatment of individuals to a pedagogy for all, Stuttgart.

Löhmer, C./ Standhardt, R.: (2006): TCI - The art of leading oneself and a group. Introduction to Theme-Centered Interaction, Stuttgart.

Further information can be found here.

Self-assessment tasks:

For users of the evening school, we provide self-assessment tasks for each lecture. These tasks can be used to reconsider the contribution, to deepen your thoughts or - if you want to obtain a certificate of further education - to prepare for the course exam.

Question 1: You are planning a two-day conference with 150 people in your field of work. Plan the opening event taking into account the lecture you have heard.

Question 2: Explain your understanding of theme-centered interaction.

Question 3: Nina Gbur describes the perspective of TCI on disorders at various points in the lecture. Think back to an educational situation in which you noticed a disruption. In light of the lecture, would you change your reaction to it? Give reasons for your decision.

The self-assessment tasks are to be understood as opportunities for reflection and do not generally test knowledge. They are always strongly related to the corresponding lecture and therefore differ.