Dr Annegret Jansen
Research and work focus
- Civic education / democracy education
- Political sustainability education / ESD
- Processes of political judgement
- Extracurricular learning / opening of schools
- Teaching research, intervention research, design-based research
Publications
JANSEN, Annegret; JESSEN, Svenja; RÖßLER, Sven (under review). Democratic subjects of sustainability? An assessment at the end of the future. In: Costa, Jana, HOLFELDER, Ann-Katrin, GOLLER, Antje, KMINEK, Helge & MARKERT, Jana (eds.): Education, Democracy & Sustainability: Contributions to Theoretical Development and Empirical Research. Leverkusen-Opladen/Berlin : Barbara Budrich (Series ‘Ecology and Educational Science’ of the DGfE’s ESD Commission).
JANSEN, Annegret; POMA POMA, Sara; OEFTERING, Tonio (forthcoming). Writing in politics lessons: Becoming politically engaged through real-life writing prompts. In: GOSCHLER, Juliana/GÜNDERT, Max-Simon/KLEINSCHMIDT-SCHINKE, Katrin/ROSE, Sarah (eds.): Writing in Subject Teaching. A Critical Review. Wiesbaden: Springer (Series: Language Sensitivity in Educational Processes).
UEFFING, Robert, JANSEN, Annegret, SCHULTE-WÖRMANN, Nikolaj, RÖßLER, Sven (forthcoming). blackpilled, activated: Loss and Coping with Political Experience in Right-Wing Libertarian Meme Culture, in: FRIEDRICHS, Werner; OEFTERING, Tonio (eds.). Political Education in the Post-Apocalypse. Thinking the Future from the End. Bielefeld: transcript.
JANSEN, Annegret (2024). The formation of political judgement among young people regarding complex issues of sustainable development. An intervention and interview study in the context of school-based and out-of-school learning. PhD thesis. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46149-2
JANSEN, Annegret; OEFTERING, Tonio (2024). Extracurricular encounters in the conflict area of agriculture and food – empirical findings and recommendations for action in political education practice. In: Achour, Sabine; Debus, Bernward; Debus, Tessa; Massing, Peter (eds.): Education for Sustainable Development. Wochenschau Special Issue. Schwalbach/Ts: Wochenschau Verlag.
JANSEN, Annegret; KRAUSE, Ulrike-Marie (2024). Multi-perspectivity and political judgement-forming in the field of education for sustainable development: a problem-oriented teaching approach with out-of-school learning opportunities. In: Hößle, Corinna; Rathje, Wiebke (eds.): Ethical Evaluation in Bioethical Contexts at School and University. Berlin: Springer.
JANSEN, Annegret (2023). Experiencing the Controversy Surrounding Sustainability Outside School? Young People’s Meaning-Making Processes in the Course of Controversial Real-Life Encounters. In: GPJE (eds.). Political Education in a Superdiverse Society. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau.
JANSEN, Annegret (2022). To ‘process’ or to ‘work through’ the world? Tensions between cultural ‘
’ and political education. In: Rößler, Sven; Friedrichs, Werner; Barth, Lukas (eds.): Pendulum Movements
between Political and Musical Education. Münster/New York: Waxmann.
JANSEN, Annegret; RÖßLER, Sven (2020). Against:Culture (and Cultural Education). In: GLOE, Markus; OEFTERING, Tonio (eds.). Political Education Meets Cultural Education. Shedding Light on the Intersections. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
JANSEN, Annegret (2020): Young people’s judgement-forming on complex issues of sustainable development in a regional learning pathway. In: KOMOREK et al. (eds.). Exploring and further developing places and processes of out-of-school learning. Münster: LIT.
JANSEN, Annegret; SCHULTE-WÖRMANN, Nikolaj; PEITSCH, Henrik (2019). On Selected Fundamental and Contemporary Issues in Political Education and its Didactics – an Interview with Bernhard Claußen. In: Teaching Politics. Journal of the German Association for Political Education, Lower Saxony. 34/2019, pp. 38–64.
JANSEN, Annegret (2018). Review of: A. Eis & C. Moulin-Doos (eds.), Critical Political Education on Europe – Europe’s Multiple Crises as a Collective Learning Opportunity? In : Teaching Politics 33/2018.
JANSEN, Annegret (2016). Literature as a space for political experience. Literary-political understanding as an approach to subject-centred political education. University of Oldenburg.
Lectures, conference papers, workshops
Jansen, Annegret (2026). Workshop on Democracy Education. Developing concepts for educational settings
. Workshop as part of the contact-based course ‘Educational Competence in a
Migration Society’, 18 March 2026, University of Oldenburg.
Jansen, Annegret; Jessen, Svenja; Rößler, Sven (2025). “Democratic Subjects of Sustainability? An Assessment at the End of the Future”, workshop as part of the annual conference of the DGfE Commission on “Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)” on“Education, Democracy & Sustainability. Contributions to Theoretical Development and Empirical Research”, 23–25 September 2025, TU Dresden.
Jansen, Annegret; Rößler, Sven; Schulte-Wörmann, Nikolaj & Ueffing, Robert (2024). “Blackpilled, activated: Loss and Coping with Political Experience”. Presentation on 12 September 2024 at the interdisciplinary workshop‘We are doomed! Political education in the post-apocalypse’, 12–13 September 2024, University of Oldenburg.
Jansen, Annegret (2023). From ‘sitting and talking’ to action: an action-oriented approach from the perspective of political sustainability education. As part of the ‘BNE-Snack’ series organised by the Didactic Centre at the University of Oldenburg on 13 December 2023. https://uol.de/diz/bne-snack
Jansen, Annegret (2023). Political judgement is a balancing act – and dancing can be learnt. As part of the ‘Hirn vom Hahn – Wissen frisch gezapft’ series. “Between the counter and the bar stools, Oldenburg academics chat about their day-to-day work and their research.” https://hirnvomhahn.de/
Jansen, Annegret (2023). “Between Resonance and Evidence: Meaning-making through out-of-school encounters in ESD” at the ECER – European Conference on Educational Research, “The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research”. Paper presented as part of the session ‘Outdoor learning and ESE’, 21–25 August 2023, University of Glasgow.
Jansen, Annegret; Bliesmer, Kai (2023). One size fits all? Natural and social science perspectives on ESD. Presentation as part of the Public Climate School (by students for future), Oldenburg.
Jansen, Annegret (2021). Intersections and boundaries of political versus cultural education. Lecture as part of the transdisciplinary series of lectures at the Weingarten University of Education on the topic “‘Pendulum Movements’ – Explorations at the Intersection of Musical and Political Education”, 18 June 2021, Weingarten/online.
Jansen, Annegret (2021). Making the Controversy Surrounding Sustainability Tangible Outside School – Findings from an Interview Study with Young People on Initiated Meaning-Making Processes. Presentation as part of the annual conference of the Society for Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) on the topic “Political Education in a Superdiverse Society”, 10–12 June 2021, Göttingen/online.
Jansen, Annegret (2020). Reflecting on Controversial Perspectives on Sustainable Agriculture – Meaning-making through Out-of-school Encounters. Presentation at the ECER – European Conference on Educational Research, “Educational Research (Re)connecting Communities”, Network Environmental and Sustainability Education Research (ESER), 23–28 August, Glasgow. [Event cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic]
Together with Claudia Gorr and Lena Beyer (2019). Out of school! – Thinking about, testing and researching education for sustainable development outside school. Presentation as part of a series of lectures organised by the GINT doctoral programme and the Public Climate School, Oldenburg.
Jansen, Annegret & Krause, U.-M. (2019). “How Do Adolescents Evaluate Complex Issues in Sustainable Development? An Intervention Study in Class” at the ECER – European Conference on Educational Research, “Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research for the Future”. Paper presented as part of the session “Didactic Perspectives in Environmental and Sustainability Education”, 3–6 September 2019, Hamburg.
Jansen, Annegret & Krause, U.-M. (2019). “Adolescents’ Reasoning and Judgement About Complex Problems in Sustainable Development: An Intervention Study”, poster symposium at the 13th International Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Bologna.
Jansen, Annegret; Brunkhorst, Sarah Jane & Krause, U.-M. (2019). “Global education in teacher training – pre-service teachers’ knowledge and beliefs” Round-table discussion at the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Aachen.
Jansen, Annegret (2019). Young people’s political judgement on ESD issues in a regional learning pathway – an intervention study. Paper presented as part of the Science Forum at the BAGLoB – National Conference on the Farm as a Place of Learning (2019), 8–10 February, Pforzheim.
Jansen, Annegret & Krause, U.-M. (2018). Young people’s judgement-forming on complex sustainable development issues – an intervention study. Presentation at the conference ‘Researching and further developing places and processes of out-of-school learning’, 29–31 August 2018, University of Oldenburg.
Jansen, Annegret & Krause, U.-M. (2018). Young people’s judgement-forming on complex issues of sustainable development. Poster presentation at the 19th Annual Conference on the theme “Society in Transition – New Challenges for Political Education and its Didactics!?” organised by the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE), 14–16 June 2018, Mainz.
In collaboration with Gorr, Claudia; Müller, Swantje; Haverkamp, Henrike; Striligka, Anastasia (2017). “Paths on the Web – How can materials, links and objects facilitate networking?” at the networking meeting for out-of-school learning venues in the STEM disciplines and geography (GINT), 24 August 2017, Oldenburg.
In collaboration with Rößler, Sven, Roman Prieb, Nikolaj Schulte-Wörmann and Christoph Hörnschemeyer (2015). Workshop ‘Project Day: “Is that me in the textbook?” – An everyday-based approach to social education’ at the 13th Federal Congress on Political Education – Inequalities in Democracy, 19–21 March, Duisburg. (Workshop)
Lectures
Summer term 2026
Winter term 2025 / 2026
Summer term 2025
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2023 / 2024
Summer term 2023
Winter term 2022 / 2023
Summer term 2022
Winter term 2021 / 2022
Summer term 2021
Winter term 2020 / 2021
Summer term 2020
Winter term 2019 / 2020
Summer term 2019
Winter term 2018 / 2019
Winter term 2017 / 2018
Memberships and committees
- Society for Political Education and Political Education for Young People and Adults (GPJE)
- European Educational Research Association: Special Interest Group 30, Environmental and Sustainability Education Research (ESER)
- Commission for Teacher Education (KLB) https://uol.de/diz/gremien/kommission-fuer-lehrkraeftebildung-klb
- Council for Teaching (RaLe) https://uol.de/diz/gremien/rat-fuer-lehre-rale
- Research Cluster on Concepts and Processes in School, Non-formal and University Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) https://uol.de/diz/diz-forschungsakademie/diz-forschungscluster/bildung-fuer-nachhaltige-entwicklung
- Centre Council of the TRUST@UOL Scientific Centre – Centre for Transformations and Sustainable Futures (https://uol.de/trust)