School I - School of Educational and Social Sciences
School I - School of Educational and Social Sciences
With the Institutes of Educational Sciences, Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation and Social Sciences, School I is home to the majority of academics working in teacher training and educational science disciplines in Oldenburg.
Institute of Educational Sciences
Prof Dr Yvonne G. Ehrenspeck-Kolasa
General pedagogy
Research focus:
- Historical educational research
- Philosophy of science
- Historical epistemology
- Theoretical and empirical media reception research and media appropriation research
- Historical anthropology
- Research on formats of reading and learning promotion with digital devices
- Learning platforms, wareables and apps in schools, non-formal and informal educational contexts
- Designing learning environments with digital media
- Attention and ADHD research in the context of digitalisation processes
- Digitalisation, professionalisation and school development
- Transformations of the education system and science system in the context of digitalisation processes
Prof Dr Heinke Röbken
Education management
Research focus:
- Her research focus includes international comparative higher education research, reputation and status hierarchies, sociological neo-institutionalism and organisational change in educational institutions.
Prof Dr Ulrike-Marie Krause
Educational sciences
Research focus:
- Empirical educational research in the school and university context; investigation of teaching/learning forms and support approaches in intervention studies
Prof Dr Maja Brückmann
Didactics of subject teaching
Research focus:
- Research into pupils' perceptions (especially in the field of energy)
- Modelling in primary school
- Analysing teaching materials and textbooks
- Lesson planning processes
- Education for sustainable development / energy education
- Digitalisation and Computing Science education in subject teaching
- Professionalisation of teachers in initial and further education
- Video-based teaching research
Prof Dr Anke Spies
Educational science with a focus on pedagogy and didactics of elementary and primary education
Prof Dr Karsten Speck
Research methods
Research focus:
- Multi-professional co-operation
- School absenteeism
- co-operation between youth welfare and school/school social work
- Participation and volunteering
- University research
- Research-based learning and teaching
Prof Dr Barbara Moschner
Empirical teaching and learning research
Research focus:
- Cognitive and motivational processes in teachers and learners
- Learning as an activating process
- structures of knowledge
- the mutual influence of teachers and learners through direct interactions and indirect mutual expectations
- relationships between tasks, task sequences, learning problems and learning outcomes
Prof Dr Dietmar Grube
Educational psychology
Research focus:
- Educational Psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Development of diagnostic proceduresDevelopment of numeracy skills
- Diagnosis of dyscalculia: Is the discrepancy criterion useful?
- Developmental disorders of school skills: The role of working memory
- Differential developmental trajectories of cognitive skills at kindergarten and school age
- Rhythm processing and working memory
- Specific language development disorder
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040
Prof Dr Rudolf Leiprecht
Social pedagogy/diversity education
Research focus:
- Questions and topics related to the lines of difference between ethnicity/nation/culture and gender
- Research on constructions of masculinity
- Social pedagogy (in particular youth work, youth research, family support, home education, social policy)
Prof Dr Till-Sebastian Idel
School pedagogy/general didactics
Research focus:
- Design, change and reform of teaching, school and pedagogical professionalism,
- Interaction of teachers with their pupils
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Prof Dr Anke Hanft
Further education and adult education
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Research focus:
- Further education at universities: Restructuring and reorganisation of advanced scientific training in the context of lifelong learning, reorganisation of basic and advanced degree programmes
- Quality management in educational and scientific institutions
Prof Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Knowledge transfer and learning with new technologies
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Research focus:
- Distance learning research (instructional design, support in online studies, competence development online, organisational development and e-learning)
- Continuing education research (international comparison of continuing education systems, studies for professionals, bibliometric analyses of the fields of international continuing education research)
- Personnel development (e-learning in further education and skills management)
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation
Prof Dr Gisela Schulze
General special education, rehabilitation / health care
Research focus:
- Health care (participatory rehabilitation research); person-environment analysis; field theory (Lewin) and its use in rehabilitation and health care research to promote participation.
- Inclusion in educational institutions of adolescents with hearing impairments.
- Absenteeism and dropout in education and rehabilitation processes.
- Young Carers and Young Adult Carers
Prof Dr Ulla Licandro
Heterogeneity and diversity with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, School I
Research focus:
- Language acquisition with multilingualism
- Everyday integrated and inclusive language support
- Peer interactions in (inclusive) teaching-learning processes
- Gestural communication development
- Diagnostics and intervention for language development disorders
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 Research Training Group
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Andrea Erdélyi
Pedagogy and didactics for intellectual development impairments
Research focus:
- International and comparative curative and special education
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication, especially for people with intellectual disabilities and neurological disorders
Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour
Pedagogy and didactics for intellectual development impairments with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Research focus:
- Educational interactions in the context of genetic syndromes
- Inclusive (subject) didactics
- Severe multiple disabilities
Prof Dr Annett Thiele
Pedagogy and didactics for physical and motor impairments as well as chronic and progressive diseases
Research focus: Pedagogy and didactics of physical and motor impairments as well as chronic and progressive diseases: Inclusion of pupils with neurological impairments, reintegration in oncological diseases, diversity and school social work at vocational schools
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 Research Training Group
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Prof Dr Clemens Hillenbrand
Pedagogy and didactics for learning impairments
Research focus:
- Inclusive education
- Skills development in emotional and social development
- Evidence-based learning support
- Prevention of dropout and early school leaving
- Classroom management
- Evaluation of learning materials for inclusive education
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 Research Training Group
Prof Dr Anna-Maria Hintz
Pedagogy and didactics for learning impairments with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Research focus:
- Testing and evaluating the effectiveness of Positive Behaviour Support measures, including in school and extracurricular educational contexts
- Evidence-based support for the prevention of and intervention in learning and developmental disorders (specialisms "learning" and "emotional and social development")
- Professionalisation of practitioners in relation to inclusion in and out of school
Prof Dr Manfred Wittrock
Pedagogy and didactics of emotional and social development with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Research focus:
- Reaction patterns towards social boundaries (Reaction Pattern Research): Research into reaction patterns to social boundaries & dealing with barriers;
- Behavioural literacy (the literacy of behaviour and action)
- Professionalisation of pedagogical action in difficult fields of work (with a focus on counselling/cooperation);
- Human-environment analysis and school-aversive behaviour patterns ("school absenteeism and drop-out")
- Delinquent behaviour of young people (young people in prison)
- And who takes them? Pupils with patterns of violent behaviour in times of inclusion.
Prof Dr Tanja Jungmann
Language and communication and their special educational support with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, School I
Research focus:
- Professionalisation of educational professionals and teachers in inclusive settings
- Evidence-based early help and early education concepts
- Diagnosis and promotion of language and literacy skills
Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Ute von Düring (née Koglin)
Special and rehabilitation educational psychology
Research focus:
- Promotion of social-emotional competences of children from kindergarten to adolescence
- Prevention of behavioural problems
- Development of emotional competences (e.g. emotion regulation)
- Callous-unemotional traits in childhood in connection with social-emotional development and aggressive behaviour
- Developmental observation and documentation in daycare centres
Institute of Social Sciences
Prof Dr Tonio Oeftering
Political education
Research focus
- Political theory and political education
- Extracurricular political youth and political adult education
- Internationalisation of political education
- Political and cultural education, in particular political music and political education
- Lifeworld orientation and civic education
- Civic education and human rights education
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Prof Dr Michael Feldhaus
Microsociology
Research focus
- Life course and social inequality
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040