Participating scientists/promotion students
Participating scientists/promotion students
Research cluster Concepts and processes of school, extracurricular and university education for sustainable development (ESD)
The research cluster is interdisciplinary and open. Researchers from the educational sciences and from the various didactics departments at the University of Oldenburg are involved. There is a close exchange with the Centre for Teacher Education (Didactic Centre - DiZ) for the development of research-relevant event formats.
We cordially invite all interested parties to participate and contribute their research perspectives. Interested parties can contact the persons listed below. We will be happy to inform you about our upcoming meetings.
Participating scientists and doctoral candidates
Prof. Dr Maja Brückmann
Teaching Methods for General Studies
Professorship of General Studies Didactics, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I
Main research focuses:
- Research into pupils’ conceptual understandings (particularly in the field of energy)
- Modelling in primary schools
- Analysis of teaching materials and textbooks
- Lesson planning processes
- Education for Sustainable Development / Energy Education
- Digitalisation and Computing Science education in general studies
- Professional development of lecturers in initial and further education
- Video-based classroom research
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Education for Sustainable Development Research Cluster
Dr Katharina Dutz
Technical education
Technical Education, Institute of Physics, School V
Research focus:
- Sustainability and technology assessment
- Technology and ethics in schools
- Integration of technical content in interdisciplinary lesson planning
- Planning lessons with special consideration of subject-specific teaching methods
Annegret Jansen
Political education
Institute of Educational Sciences, School I, WG Educational Sciences
Institute of Social Sciences, School I, WG Political Didactics
Abstract of the dissertation project
As part of her dissertation, Annegret Jansen is researching the political judgement of young people on complex issues of sustainable development. Complexity, multi-perspectivity and controversy place high demands on political judgement processes. The question arises as to how political education can respond to this challenge within and across subjects, what characterises political learning in this context and how political judgement formation can be stimulated in concrete learning situations.
In the research project, teaching projects were carried out on the conflict area of agriculture and food in the upper secondary school and the learning and judgement processes initiated were examined. One didactic focus was to make it possible to experience the systemic lines of conflict in their regional relevance. To this end, extracurricular encounters with regional actors (local farmers and representatives of an NGO) were integrated. The research project aims to analyse and promote sustainability-related political judgement and to generate didactic knowledge about the integration of extracurricular experiences into political education.
Prof Dr Michael Komorek
Didactics of physics and science communication
Professorship for Didactics of Physics and Science Communication, Institute of Physics, School V
Research focus:
- Didactic reconstruction
- Context-orientated physics teaching
- Education for sustainable development (ESD)
- Empirical teaching-learning research
- Teacher professionalisation
Prof Dr Ulrike-Marie Krause
Educational sciences
Professorship of Educational Sciences, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I
Research focus:
- Empirical educational research in the school and university context
- Investigation of teaching/learning methods and support approaches in intervention studies
Participation in the Education for Sustainable Development research cluster
Dr Verena Niesel
Science communication, event conception and information management
Office of the Didactic Centre (DiZ)
Jonas Tischer
Didactics of physics and science communication
Institute of Physics, School V
Doctoral candidate in the ReBiS project (Regional STEM Education Ecosystem)
Research focus
- Complementary networking of extracurricular learning centres
- Networking formal and non-formal STEM education processes in the educational ecosystem
- BnE in physics lessons and in complementary networked learning centres
Dr Birgit Weusmann
Didactics of biology
Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, School V
Main areas of work
- Biology-related teaching in the field
- Research-based learning in biology lessons
- Teaching-learning laboratories as practical elements in teacher training
- Coordination of the Green School as a teaching-learning laboratory and extracurricular learning centre
Associate researchers
Assistant Professor Dr Marisa Alena Holzapfel
University of Greifswald – Primary School Education with a specialisation in General Studies and its teaching methodology
Assistant Professor of Primary School Education, specialising in general studies and its didactics, Institute of Educational Science, University of Greifswald
Steinbecker Straße 15, 17487 Greifswald
Research Associate in the Didactics of General Studies, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I, University of Oldenburg – on leave of absence
Main research focuses:
- (Creative) programming in general studies
- Pupils’ conceptions
- Extracurricular learning environments
- Humour in science lessons
- Humour in health education
- Health education in general studies
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
- Language development within the subject
- Augmented and Virtual Reality in general studies
Ongoing projects:
- Creativityin General Studies(KreaSach), a project funded by the EWE Foundation
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the research cluster ‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching / Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’
- Participation in the research cluster ‘Education for Sustainable Development’
Dr Zuzana Münch-Manková
University of Augsburg – Research Department – Centre for Teacher Education and Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ZLbiB)
Senior Lecturer in the Research Department, Centre for Teacher Education and Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ZLbiB), University of Augsburg
Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg
Main research focuses:
- Research and methodological advice on research designs and methodological issues
- Design and delivery of research and methodology workshops, as well as the ZLbiB Research Learning Workshop
- Advice and support in planning current research projects in educational science and applications for external funding
Initiation and support of interdisciplinary and international research projects and co-operations
Activities (selection):