Dissertation project: On the relationship between everyday and specialised ideas in the social science domain using the example of immigration and integration

Studies on learner perspectives have so far remained limited in the field of social science learning. This is an unsatisfactory state of affairs, especially if the assumption is made that students' ideas about social science issues are always subject to a life-world influence, the resistance to change of which is widely emphasised. This study therefore sets itself the task of transferring pupils' perspectives - using the example of the learning field of immigration and integration - into a didactically motivated perspective of teaching by critically analysing key social science findings and theories on the subject matter. The results will be used to develop domain-specific strategies for conceptual change and principles for didactic structuring in order to utilise the implicit theories and interests of the students for migration policy and social science lessons and teacher training.

The following questions can be posed for the investigations:

The surveys of learner perspectives utilise qualitative research methods; sampling strategies include learners with and without a migration background as members of the democratic immigration society in the investigations. The evaluation is carried out as a step-by-step and methodically controlled procedure in the sense of a modification of qualitative content analysis in the context of subject-didactic teaching and learning research.

Monographs

• Pupils' conceptions and sociological ideas about migration - a contribution to political didactic reconstruction. Oldenburg 2005

Contributions to handbooks, encyclopaedias, anthologies and journals

• Diagnostics in the social science domain from the perspective of didactic teaching and learning research. Contribution to the conference proceedings of the GPJE 'Domänenspezifische Diagnostik' (to be published in 2007)
• Economic-political learning in subject teaching. In: Pfeiffer, Silke (ed.): Neue Wege im Sachunterricht. Oldenburg (forthcoming 2007)
• Economic learning. In: Lange, Dirk; Reinhardt, Volker (eds.): Basiswissen Politische Bildung (Volume V). Baltmannsweiler 2007
• Pupils' perceptions. In: Lange, Dirk; Reinhardt, Volker (eds.): Basiswissen Politische Bildung (Volume III). Baltmannsweiler 2007
• The model of political didactic reconstruction. A concept of specialised didactic teaching and learning research. In: Politik Unterrichten, Issue 2, 2006, 51-70 (together with Dirk Lange)
• The model of didactic reconstruction in civic education. Insight into research practice. In: Lange, Dirk (ed.) (2006): Political education research. Political didactic work and research focus at universities in Lower Saxony. Baltmannsweiler, 185-200 (together with Dirk Lange and Andreas Klee)

Reviews

• In: Politik Unterrichten H. 2/2006 Review of: Wildfeuer, Wolfgang: Communication - Moderation - Mediation. A training programme for students and teachers. Juventa 2006
• Lucien Febvre: The problem of unbelief in the 16th century. The religion of Rabelais. Klett-Cotta, 2002, 541 pages. In: XXX (together with Dirk Lange)
• Media tips on growth. In Praxis Politik, H. 1/2006
• Media tips for living and learning democracy. In: Praxis Politik, H. 3/2005
• New publications on political didactics. In: Teaching Politics, H. 2/2005

Reports and papers

• Domain-specific diagnostics - Second conference of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) from 2 - 3 June 2006 in Bergisch Gladbach (conference report). In: Political Education 4/2006
• DVPW conference: Democracy in specialised science, pedagogy and didactics in political education. (Report) In: POLIS H. 1 / 2005, 28-29

• "Migration policy education - tasks and projects" Lecture at the Regional Research Forum symposium on migration, integration, exclusion, racism, intercultural communication and multilingualism on 19 January 2007
• "Global learning and globalisation" Lecture at the service meetings for political science teachers at vocational schools in the area of responsibility of the Lüneburg regional education authority on 16 November 2006 in Stade and on 5 December 2006 in Lüneburg
• "Das Forschungsmodell der Didaktischen Rekonstruktion am Beispiel Migration - Schülervorstellungen und fachliche Vorstellungen in der Perspektive der Vermittlung" Lecture at the conference "Domänenspezifische Diagnostik - Zweite Tagung des Nachwuchses der GPJE - der Gesellschaft für Politikdidaktik und politische Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung" in Bergisch-Gladbach from 2 to 3 June 2006
• "Learning Migration" lecture at the international conference "European Citizenship Education on Migration" at the University of Oldenburg from 17-19 October 2005
• "Subject-related approaches and student perceptions from a mediating perspective - The model of didactic reconstruction?" Lecture at the workshop "Konzepte politischen Wissens und ihre Entstehung" organised by the Giessen Graduate Centre for Cultural Studies (GGK) and the professorship for Didactics of Social Sciences on 16 March 2007 at the University of Giessen

Professional memberships

• Co-opted member of the Federal Board of the German Association for Political Education (DVPB)
• Member of the Lower Saxony State Board of the German Association for Political Education (DVPB)

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