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In a world characterized by pluralism and change, there are no prescriptions for how people ought to be. They have a choice among a multiplicity of even contradictory pictures of man as possible models for their self and are continually confronted with the challenge to reflect on and determine a design for self-formation. The phenomenon of Bildung that comes to expression thereby is consequently of fundamental significance.

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Notes

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    cf. von Prondczynsky, 2006.

  2. 2.

    cf. Götz, Frenzel & Pekrun, 2009.

  3. 3.

    cf. Allmendinger, Ebner & Nicolai, 2009.

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    ibid.

  5. 5.

    cf. Ehrenspeck, 2009.

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    cf. Esser, 2011.

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Schneider, K. (2012). Introduction. In: Schneider, K. (eds) Becoming oneself. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19156-0_1

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