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 Maja Brückmann
Didactics of subject teaching
Professorship of General Studies Didactics, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I
Main research focuses:
- Research into pupils’ conceptual understandings (particularly in the field of energy)
- Modelling in primary schools
- Analysis of teaching materials and textbooks
- Lesson planning processes
- Education for Sustainable Development / Energy Education
- Digitalisation and Computing Science education in general studies
- Professional development of lecturers in initial and further education
- Video-based classroom research
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Education for Sustainable Development Research Cluster
Prof Dr Yvonne G. Ehrenspeck-Kolasa
General pedagogy
Research focus:
- Historical educational research
- Theory 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 Till-Sebastian Idel
School pedagogy/general didactics
Professorship of Educational Science, specialising in School Pedagogy and General Didactics, Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty I
Main research focuses:
- The design, change and reform of teaching, schools and pedagogical professionalism,
- Interaction between teachers and their pupils
Current projects:
- Digiisation-related and digitally supported school(cu) development through Mmultiprofessional CCooperation in all-day primary schools (DigischuKuMPK) (2023–2026), a project under the BMBFSFJ funding scheme Centre of Excellence for School Development
Activities (selection):
- Deputy Director for Research at the Centre for Teacher Education – Didactic Centre (DiZ), together with 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
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
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Education for Sustainable Development research cluster
Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist
Digital education at school
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
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 Ayça Polat
Social pedagogy in a society of migration
Main research focuses:
- Theories and 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 on 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
Prof Dr Heinke Röbken
Education management
Research focus:
- International comparative higher education research
- Reputation and status hierarchies
- Sociological neo-institutionalism
- Organisational change in educational institutions
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 voluntary work
- University research
- Research-based learning and teaching
Prof Dr Anke Spies
Educational science with a focus on pedagogy and didactics of elementary and primary education
Research focus:
- Co-operation relationships in the educational landscape network
- Child protection at primary level
- Educational biographies
- University didactic professionalisation strategies
- All-day education at primary level
Prof Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Knowledge transfer and learning with new technologies
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 company-based further education and competence management)
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)
Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation
Prof Dr Andrea Erdélyi
Pedagogy and didactics for intellectual development impairments
Research focus:
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication, especially for people with intellectual disabilities and neurological disorders
- Accessible communication in the context of healthcare and hospice
- Signing
- Montessori curative education
- Inclusion and sport
- International comparative special needs education
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
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)
Prof Dr Anna-Maria Hintz
Pedagogy and didactics for learning impairments with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Research focus:
- Prevention and intervention in the context of learning and developmental impairments in various educational settings (including out-of-school settings)
- Individual support and promotion for learning, emotional and social development impairments (incl. support and progression diagnostics)
- Conception, implementation and evaluation of (school-wide) practical approaches for the successful implementation of (school-based) inclusion (especially primary and lower secondary level)
- Professionalisation of educational specialists with regard to inclusion in and out of school
- Possibilities and limits of controlled individual case research in educational contexts
Prof Dr Tanja Jungmann
Language and communication and their special educational support with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
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
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
Prof Dr Ulla Licandro
Heterogeneity and diversity with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
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
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the research cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
- Spokesperson for the Intersectional Sensitivity research cluster together with Prof Dr Mario Dunkel
- Spokesperson of the doctoral programme SPARK (2022 - 2025)
- Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)
- Member of the Steering Committee in the project "Dimensions of Diversity in Teacher Education"
- Collaborating Professor in the cluster of excellence Hearing4all.connects
Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour
Pedagogy and didactics for intellectual development impairments with special consideration of inclusive educational processes
Research focus:
- Pedagogical interactions in the context of intellectual disabilities
- Inclusive (subject) didactics
- Participation of people with complex disabilities
- Professionalisation of educational professionals and (prospective) teachers
Prof Dr Gisela Schulze
General special education, rehabilitation / health care
Research focus:
- Absenteeism and dropout in education and rehabilitation processes
- Young Carers (Young Adult Carers)
- Field theory (Lewin), person-environment analysis and its use to promote participation
- Participatory care research & health care
- The emotion of shame and its significance for teaching and learning processes
- Social withdrawal
Prof Dr Annett Thiele
Pedagogy and didactics for physical and motor impairments as well as chronic and progressive diseases
Research focus:
- Fundamentals of inclusion-oriented subject didactics, with special consideration of students with physical-motor impairments (focus: German lessons)
- Assistive technologies and digitalisation in the context of physical-motor impairments
- Motor diagnostics and psychomotor support for circumscribed motor development disorders and cerebral movement disorders at pre-school and primary school age (focus: fine, graphic and writing motor skills)
- Chronically-somatically and progressively ill pupils in hospital lessons and in inclusive settings as well as pedagogical-didactic support and counselling in the context of transition processes (focus: oncologically ill pupils)
- Neurological rehabilitation (focus: provision of assistive devices)
- Evaluation of inclusive counselling and support systems in school and academic appointments
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
- Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)
- Spokesperson of the doctoral programme SPARK (2022 - 2025)
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
Activities (selection):
- Spokesperson of the doctoral programme SPARK (2022 - 2025)
Institute of Social Sciences
Prof Dr Michael Feldhaus
Microsociology
Research focus
- Life course and social inequality
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)
Prof. Dr Tonio Oeftering
Civic Education / Political Education
Professorship for Political Education/Political Didactics, Institute of Social Sciences, School I - School of Educational and Social Sciences
Main research focuses
- Political Theory and Political Education
- Extracurricular political education for young people and adults
- Internationalisation of political education
- Political and Cultural Education, in particular Political Music and Political Education
- Lifeworld-oriented approach and political education
- Political Education and Human Rights Education
Activities (selection):
- Participation in the research cluster ‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching / Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’
- Participation in the Graduate College ‘Teacher Education 2040’ (2020–2024)