Research-based teaching and learning at the University of Oldenburg. Definition and theoretical localisation of research-based teaching and learning:

Research-based teaching and learning is a didactic approach that locates learning in research: students and teachers jointly design learning events for which it is specific that what has been learned can be continuously problematised as the subject of research that has not yet been completed. In this way, students become independent and active learners. Teachers support this process by teaching in a way that does not close the subject matter, but opens it up to the students' research-based approach. Students should go through the essential phases of a collaborative or individual, but always open-ended research process and thus independently develop competences and expand their knowledge. These phases include the development of a research question, the literature-based classification in the state of research, the well-founded selection of a theoretical approach and a research method, the implementation of a method-guided investigation or development, the evaluation and interpretation of the research results, the formulation and presentation of the research results and their critical reflection. The research process thus becomes a learning environment in which research can be understood and critically reflected upon as an active construction process.

The dovetailing of theory and practice has long played a prominent role in teacher training in Oldenburg. Within the ^OLE+ project, these theory-practice links are being further developed on the basis of a university-wide concept for theory-practice links in the teaching degree programmes. One focus of these activities is the curricular anchoring of a practice-oriented teaching programme in so-called theory-practice rooms. Theory-practice rooms are typically places in which student teachers teach groups of pupils on the basis of lesson plans that they have developed in advance in university courses under the guidance of teachers and which are then critically reflected upon. Subject-specific technical equipment is available in the theory-practice rooms, which is continuously updated with regard to new focal points. In addition, in some theory-practice rooms, contact with the teaching behaviour of the future target group is also made possible by means of video vignettes. The focus of the videographed teaching sequences is on videos in which the main content of teacher training at the University of Oldenburg as well as typical problems of the respective subject teaching are addressed. In addition to promoting the professionalisation of students, the theory-practice rooms also serve the further training of school teachers and Oldenburg's research into teacher training.