Professorship of Art Education and Art Education, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, School III

0441 798-2928

Mainresearch focuses:

• Inclusion and exclusion from a difference-theoretical perspective
• Standards of competence and assessment frameworks in art education
• Art education and art outreach in a culture of digitality
• Praxeological research into professionalisation in art education and art outreach
• Collaborative relationships between practitioners in art education and art outreach
• Intersectional sensitivity

Current projects:

• Poetries of Resistance and Hope. Hegemony-critical poetry as an educational opportunity in marginalised communities (2026–2027), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Alisha Heinemann (University of Bremen), research funding under the Northwest Alliance, Now Advanced funding programme
• Achievement: A Social Practice in Primary School Classrooms (2025–2028), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Simone Seitz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Digitisation-related and digitally supported professional development for sports, music and art teachers (DigiProSMK) (2023–2026), a project under the BMBFSFJ funding scheme ‘Centres of Excellence for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools’. Centre of Excellence for Artistic, Creative and Sports Subjects
• CoP 4: Environmental Anxiety (2023–2026), VR learning space as part of DigiProSMK
• CoP 5: From Image to Platform (2023–2026) as part of DigiProSMK

Activities (selection):

• Deputy Director for Research at the Centre for Teacher Education – Didactic Centre (DiZ), together with Prof. Dr Till-Sebastian Idel
• Spokesperson for the ‘ Futures of Care in Bildung ’ research cluster, together with Prof. Dr Till-Sebastian Idel
• Involvement in the ‘Intersectional Sensitivity’ research cluster

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Professorship of Educational Science, specialising in School Pedagogy and General Didactics, Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty I

0441 798-4387

Main research focuses:

• The design, change and reform of teaching, schools and pedagogical professionalism,
• Interaction between teachers and their pupils

Current projects:

• Digitalisation-related and digitally supported school (culture) development through multi-professional co-operation in all-day primary schools ‘ ’ (DigischuKuMPK) (2023–2026), a project under the BMBFSFJ funding schemeCentre of Excellence for School Development

Activities (selection):

• Deputy Director for Research at the Centre for Teacher Education – Didactic Centre (DiZ), alongside Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser
• Co-spokesperson for the ‘ Futures of Care in Bildung ’ research cluster, together with Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser
• Involvement in the ‘Intersectional Sensitivity’ research cluster
• Involvement in the ‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching / Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’ research cluster

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Professorship of American Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, School III

0441 798-2320

Mainresearch focuses:

• popular culture, with a specific focus on forms and figures of cultural mobility in North American, Inter-American and Transatlantic contexts
• digital media cultures
• the production of future imaginaries in popular narratives

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Involvement in the research cluster ‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching / Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’
• Director of the Scientific Centre for the Genealogy of the Present (WiZeGG)
• Co-co-convenor of the MWK doctoral programme ‘Shaping the Future: Transforming the Present through Digitalisation Scenarios’ (2019–2024)
• Co-coordinator of the MWK doctoral programme ‘Border Formations in a Society of Migration ’ (MIGG) (2016–2020)
• Co-coordinator of the MWK doctoral programme ‘Cultures of Participation’ (2014–2018)

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Professorship for Music Education with a specialisation in transcultural music education, Institute of Music, School III

0441 798-2323

Mainresearch focuses:

• Music Education,
• transcultural music education,
• links between music and politics,
• cultural and musicological research on jazz and popular music

Current projects:

• Recomposing the Black Box: Critical Digital Education through AI-Powered Music Generation (RECOMPOSE) (2026–2029), a Booster Unit under the MWK funding scheme ‘Strategically Unlocking Potential’
• Digital Cultural Heritage of Our Time. Developing a Circulatory System for User-Generated Content between the Web Archive of the German National Library and Music Education (DiCHOT) (2025–2030), a joint project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation under the ‘Change! Fellowships’ funding programme
• Digitality – Diversity – Producing: Popular Music Practices in Schools and further education (DiDiPro) (2023–2026), a joint project under the BMBFSFJ funding scheme ‘Centres of Excellence for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools’. Centre of Excellence for Artistic and Creative Subjects and Sport

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Co-convenor of the research cluster ‘Intersectional Sensibility’ together with Prof. Dr Ulla Licandro
• Participation in the Graduate College ‘Teacher Education 2040’ (2020–2024)

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Professorship of Digital Education in Schools, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I

0441 798-2900

Main research focuses:

• Digital culture and schools
• Investigation of the social dimensions of ‘digital education’ and educational technologies using ethnographic, qualitative and speculative methods
• Sociopolitical, ethical and pedagogical implications of the design of educational media and infrastructures (EdTech)
• The relationship between educational media and inequality/injustice
• Design justice in the research and development of educational technologies, particularly in ‘AI’ systems

Current projects:

• Recomposing the Black Box: Critical Digital Education through AI-Powered Music Generation (RECOMPOSE) (2026–2029), a Booster Unit under the MWK funding scheme ‘Strategically Unlocking Potential’
• Re:Lab, Praxis Lab for Reimagining EdTech Futures (2024–2029), funded by the MWK as part of the Digitalisation Professorships programme (EUR 1,616,000)

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung

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Professorship in Art History with a focus on Gender Studies, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, School III

0441 798-4918

Main research focuses:

• Gender studies in art and cultural studies
• Art history and art theories from the 19th to the 21st centuries
• Visual culture studies, gardens, queer ecologies, new materialism
• Class issues in art and visual culture, theories of affect
• Queer theory, porn studies, film theory
• Artistic, educational and curatorial project work

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Deputy Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG)
• Co-leader of the DFG network‘Interdisciplinary Pornography Research’(2026–2028, led by Dr Leonie Zilch)

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Professorship of Social Pedagogy in a Society of Migration, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I

0441 798-2452

Main research focuses:

• Theories and practical approaches to critiquing racism and promoting diversity awareness
• Migration education and critical migration studies
• Social inequalities
• Participation and conviviality

Current projects:

• Migrant self-help organisations and further education in social pedagogy – a responsive study (MIRASTO) (2024–2027), a joint project under the BMBFSFJ funding scheme ‘Integration through Education’, in partnership with Goethe University Frankfurt, the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) and the Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) at the University of Oldenburg, as well as representatives of migrant self-help organisations

• Contact-based study programme: Recognition and pedagogical competence in a migration society, a co-operation project of the Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC) and the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) at the University of Oldenburg, in partnership with kargah e.V. in Hanover, effect gGmbH in Bremen, KUBI Gesellschaft für Kultur und Bildung gGmbH and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, co-funded by the European Union through the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the DAAD’s PROFI programme

  Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Head of the Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies

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Professorship in Educational Science specialising in Educational Trajectories and Diversity, Section A: General Educational Science, Faculty 12 – Educational Sciences, University of Bremen

Heinemann’s Office: 0421 218-66290 (Britta Weining)

Mainresearch focuses:

• Critical diversity research, in particular
  • Critical vocational education
  • Critical adult education
• Postcolonial theories in educational studies
• Educational professionalism in a society of migration
• German as an additional language
• Multilingual Classrooms
• Transition from school to work

Current projects:

• Poetries of Resistance and Hope. Hegemony-critical poetry as an educational opportunity in marginalised communities (2026–2027), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Alisha Heinemann (University of Bremen), research funding under the Northwest Alliance, Now Advanced funding programme
• Educational game on financial literacy for migrants – sensitive to differences, multilingual, career-oriented (FinDMB) (2025–2028), sub-project of the joint project MetaFin under the BMBFFramework Programme Empirical Educational Research, a meta-project within this funding line for financial education research

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Convenor of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research platform ‘Worlds of Contradiction’ (WOC), which encompasses the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, law and education, together with Prof. Dr Ingo H. Warnke

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Professorship of General Educational Science with a specialisation in Educational Theory, Department A: General Educational Science, Faculty 12 – Educational Sciences, University of Bremen

0421 218-69100

Rose’s Office: 0421 218-69027 (Marion Franzen)

(Marion Franzen)

Mainresearch focuses:

• Educational and discourse theory:

Processes of subjectification and education

• Migration and inequality research:

  Discrimination, racism, construction as ‘the Other’, class relations, post- and decolonial perspectives

• Qualitative methods:

  Biographical research, ethnography and videography, discourse analysis, address analysis

Ongoing projects:

• Pilot study for the research project Children’s Belongings and Citizenship (belong*child). A qualitative empirical study on orders of difference and belonging in middle and late childhood, Prof. Dr Nadine Rose (University of Bremen), Prof. Dr Claudia Machold (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Dr Anne Otzen (University of Bremen)

Completed projects:

• The Linguistic Dimensions of Recognition: Empirical Reconstructions of Addressing Processes in Secondary School Teaching from a Subjectivation Theory Perspective (2013–2017), Prof. Dr Norbert Ricken (Ruhr University Bochum) and Prof. Dr Nadine Rose (University of Bremen), German Research Foundation (DFG)

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Member of the DFG network‘Subjectification Research in Educational Science’(NES) (2020–2025, led by Dr Karen Geipel)

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Research Fellow at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture, working on the further development of the Research Academy of the Centre for Teacher Training – Didactic Centre (DiZ) – From 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 on special leave due to the administrative professorship at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts; stand-in: M.A. Sarah Volknant

0531 391-9143

Mainresearch focuses:

• Art education, art outreach and inclusion
• Post-digital (youth) cultural educational processes, co-creation as an aesthetic-didactic principle
• Art pedagogy and outreach in the context of care theories
• Development of inclusive, historically conscious and difference-sensitive learning and outreach formats
• Non-conformist art education in the GDR through qualitative interview research, post-socialist studies
• Studies in visual culture, art and image studies, art and cultural theory; transcultural and feminist art histories of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Artistic research, artistic epistemologies, curatorial fields of practice

Current projects:

• Research into sustainable professional development formats as part of the collaborative project ‘Digitisation-related and digitally supported professional development for sports, music and art teachers’ (DigiProSMK) (2023–2026), a project under the BMBFSFJ funding scheme ‘Centres of Excellence for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools’. Centre of Excellence for Artistic and Creative Subjects and Sport
• CoP 4: Ecological Anxiety (2023–2026), VR learning space as part of DigiProSMK with the artists Kat Austen, Daniel Hengst and Du Zhang and the art educator Chantal Küng

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Founder and co-director of the nomadic video art platform D’EST

Link to the working group in Braunschweig

Link to the working group in Oldenburg

Research Associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture, working on the further development of the Research Academy at the Centre for Teacher Training – Didactic Centre (DiZ)

Standing in for Dr Ulrike Gerhardt from 1 April 26 to 31 March 27.

0441 798-4176

Mainresearch focuses:

• Intersectional sensitivity in teacher education
• Professional development of trainee teachers in the context of inclusion and exclusion
• Linguistic diversity in schools from an intersectional perspective
• Difference-theoretical and care-oriented perspectives on education

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Bildung
• Participation in the ‘Intersectional Sensitivity’ research cluster
• PhD within the framework of the Graduate College ‘Teacher Education 2040’ (2020–2024)

Link to the research group at the Centre for Didactics

Link to the research group in Art Education and Art Education Practice