School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
In School IV, four Institutes - Protestant Theology, History, Philosophy and Sports Science - are involved in Oldenburg's teacher training programme. The professorships in didactics are supplemented by numerous specialised professorships.
Institute of Theology and Religious Education
Prof Dr Dr Joachim Willems
Religious education
Research focus:
- Interreligiosity and interculturality as a topic of religious education
- Conceptualisation and evaluation of religious and interreligious competence
- Empirical research in religious education
- International comparative religious education (focus on Russia)
- Religious education and religious policy
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 graduate programme
Prof Dr Ulrike Link-Wieczorek
Systematic theology and religious education
Research focus:
- Teaching Christian doctrine in the context of denominational de-traditionalisation and religious pluralism
- Systematic theology in relation to religious education
- Ecumenism
- Theological reception of interdisciplinary Gabe research
- Theology of reconciliation
- International ecumenical co-operation (with the University of Torun/Poland, Bethlehem University and Union Theological College Bangalore/India).
Institute of History
Prof Dr Dietmar von Reeken
History didactics with a focus on history teaching and history culture
Research focus:
- Historical culture in history teaching
- History didactics pragmatically
- Homeland and memory in the region
- Northwest German regional history
- Early historical learning
- Holocaust in primary school
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Institute of Philosophy
PD Dr Tilman Hannemann
History and theories of religions
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040
Prof Dr Christa Runtenberg
Didactics of philosophy
Research focus:
- Applied Practical Philosophy
- Applied Ethics
- Anthropology and philosophy of education
- Didactics of philosophy and philosophising at lower secondary level
- Philosophising with children in primary school and elementary education
- Organisation of a Philosophical Café in the Wolfgang-Borchert-Theatre Münster
Participation in the Teacher Training 2040 graduate programme
Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
Prof Dr Reinhard Schulz
Philosophy
Natural philosophy, hermeneutics, anthropology, Jaspers research, specialised didactics
Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
Institute of Sport Science
Prof Dr Jan Erhorn
Sports science with a focus on sports pedagogy and sports didactics
Sport Science with a focus on Sport Pedagogy and Sport Didactics, Institute of Sport Science, School IV
Research focus:
- Empirical teaching research,
- Teacher professionalisation,
- Movement, play and sport in early childhood,
- Professionalisation of early childhood educators,
- Inclusion and dealing with heterogeneity,
- Movement, play and sport for children and young people in the city.
Prof Dr Jörg Schorer
Sport and exercise
Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040
em. Prof Dr Matthias Schierz
Sport and education
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Research focus:
- School and subject culture research
- research on professions
- Educational programme research
- Methods and methodologies of empirical research with a focus on reconstructive procedures.
Prof Dr Thomas Alkemeyer
Sociology & Sports Sociology
Research focus:
- Sociological theories of practice
- Sociology of the body and sport
- Subjectivation research
- Cultural sociology of the present