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

0441 798-4909

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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

0441 798-2869

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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

0441 798-4263

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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

0441 798-4434

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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

0441 798-2283

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Prof Dr Karsten Speck

Research methods

0441 798-2174

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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

0441 798-4303

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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

0441 798- 2859

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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

0441 798- 2040

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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

0441 798- 4387

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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

0441 798- 2743

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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

0441 798- 2765

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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

0441 798-2175

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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

0441 798-5733

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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

0441 798-4753

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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

0441 798-4825

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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

0441 798-2948

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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

0441 798-4623

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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

0441 798-2949

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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

0441 798-3659

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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

0441 798-2018

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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

0441 798-2644

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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

0441 798-4181

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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

0441 798-2312

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Research focus

  • Life course and social inequality

Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040

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