Together with our partners from Nelson Mandela University and the University of Dar es Salaam, we are organising an international symposium on 'Higher Education Engagement Work in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals' in June. The two-day symposium will take an interdisciplinary look at the…

Felicitas Macgilchrist has been awarded one of four of Open University Malaysia's prestigious annual Global Fellowships"

On behalf of the Ministry of Schools, Family and Vocational Training of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Prof Dr Karsten Speck (University of Oldenburg) is monitoring and evaluating school social work in general education schools in Hamburg.

Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine:n studentische:n Mitarbeiter:in mit 5 Std./Woche im Forschungsprojekt RECOMPOSE 

Profile: Suspicious? Racial profiling as institutional racism

Wednesday, 06.05.2026, 14-16 h University of Oldenburg

Trupp, Macgilchrist et al. (2026). Retooling the tools of critical reflection: On how quotidian tasks undermine critical inquiry. Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Julie Lüpkes in an article about ‘Tablets, robotic arms and AI – how well equipped are Friesland's schools for digital teaching?’ in the NWZ newspaper.

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Are you studying to become a primary school or special needs teacher - and want more than just theory?

In the SULab of the Didactics of Special Needs Education department, you can expect a position that combines teaching, research and a learning laboratory in a meaningful way.

20 hours a month,…

Leider sind alle Plätze für die Betreuung von Masterarbeiten im SoSe 26 vergeben. Bei Interesse im WiSe2026/27 zu schreiben, melden Sie sich gerne.

Conference venue University of Oldenburg, registration now open.

The project groups in the Bachelor of Education project phase will present their results on 6 February 2026.

The isb modules are visible from Tue, 10.2.26 (7th week) ...

Roß, A. (2025): Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen. Comics als Bildungsmedium zur Kritik am„Digitalen Kapitalismus“. Ein Plädoyer füreine reflexive Medienbildung. Medienimpulse 83, 4 

https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mp/article/view/9890/10232

The handout serves as a guide as to whether and in what form the use of CCI tools is permitted in the context of the event, which documentation obligations apply and which requirements exist for the independence of the services

We mourn the loss of
Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Hilbert Meyer
His work with his head, heart and hands will always keep his memory alive.
The members of the Institute of Educational Sciences

Ein neuer Artikel: Über Künstliche Intelligenz und ihre Bedeutung für die Zukunft nachdenken: Wie funktioniert KI?
Was unterscheidet KI von herkömmlichen Computerprogrammen? Wie möchten wir sie in Zukunft nutzen – und wie nicht? Wichtige Fragen, mit denen sich auch Kinder schon beschäftigen können.…

Williamson, B., Macgilchrist, F., & Potter, J. (2025). Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education. Oxford Review of Education, 51(6), 936-952. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2025.2483255 

Publication of a new anthology by Ayça Polat (ed.) entitled "Migration and Social Work. Knowledge, Attitude, Action"

Further information: Migration and social work

ETUI AI Talk by Julie Lüpkes and Marte Henningsen Their talk about tech solutionism in the education sector is now available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/H3fLwjVngDk

New journal with Dr. Christina Krumbacher as editor 

Grundschule Sachunterricht. Informatik unplugged 

https://www.friedrich-verlag.de/friedrich-plus/grundschule/sachunterricht/grundschule-sachunterricht/informatik-unplugged-6660 

The annual newsletter reports on joint events that have taken place, introduces the new scholarship holders and reports on current activities of the specialist centre at Moi University.

Workshop on 15 November 2025 at The National Archives, London, organised by Dr Silke Bakenhus as part of the QuaSU project

Place/Time: Pius-Hospital Oldenburg, Foyer in the Pius Tower (Peterstraße 28-32, 26121 Oldenburg), 20 January 2026, 6:00 to 8:15 pm

In September 2025, the survey phase of the "Change in Engagement" project began with initial qualitative expert interviews and group discussions in the two regions under investigation.

New book published: Digitalität und Unterrichtsalltag

 https://doi.org/10.35468/6190 

New international and co-authored report: 

https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/report/Critical_studies_of_education_and_technology_reasons_to_be_hopeful_/29265038?file=55209389 

Discourse thunderstorm Strengthening democracy and human rights: Education as a response to right-wing extremism?

Eleven students travelled to Berlin to conduct qualitative surveys as part of the project phase of their bachelor's degree in education. The students took part in the seminar led by Prof. Dr Karsten Speck and Dr Anja Schäfer, in which they independently conducted and evaluated surveys as part of the…

Our joint contribution "Enhancing professional development in digital STEM education: cross-disciplinary success factors and barriers" has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 16 (2025).

This AI talk provides insights into critical research on AI-enabled automated feedback and grading tools in Germany. They will discuss the technical and operational implications that these technologies entail for the future of education and its actors.

On 16.10.2025, 14:00h - 15:00h, Zoom 

Two projects at the University of Oldenburg get children excited about science and historical learning: ^DinoSAURier and QuaSU

It's about creative-critical ways of engaging with technologies, including uncertainties (in German).
 

A wide range of cooperation activities between South Africa's Nelson Mandela University and the University of Oldenburg in August and September demonstrates the intensive collaboration between the two institutions within the framework of various projects in the educational sciences.

Call for Papers "Sustainably unequal! Intersectional analyses of social work as an opportunity for a sustainable profession?"

Cefa, B., Macgilchrist, F., Elgamal, H., Bai, J. Y. H., Zawacki-Richter, O., & Loglo, F. S. Y. (2025). Responses to the Initial Hype: ChatGPT supporting teaching, learning, and scholarship? Open Praxis, 17(2), 227–250.

Rather than seeing AI as a threat or a solution, RECOMPOSE shows how AI works, where it can create biases and how these can be detected and critically challenged

The DiBiS / Re:Lab Team played an active role at the ECCESS conference in Zurich, incl. the closing keynote.

F. Macgilchrist & J. Jarke, Who said only military officers can deal with uncertainty? On the importance of uncertainty in edtech data visualisations. 

At the end of project QuaSU - Source work in subject lessonsDr Silke Bakenhus cordially invites primary school children to take part in the "BildSpuren" painting competition at Schloss Evenburg in Leer. From 1 July to 31 August 2025, children can get creative and put their ideas about life at the…

Event: "AI and Ethics: Responsibility and planetary dimensions of tech-based education

Our colleague Marie-Theres Ronnebaum was elected to represent the next generation of the German Association for the Didactics of Sachunterricht at the conference for young academics.

Four scholars give their perspectives on the new tech backlash in education

FM chats with Neil Selwyn about criticality

FM chats with the Future Skills podcast team (in German) 

Lecture as part of the series of lectures "Strengthening democracy and human rights: Education as a response to right-wing extremism?".

Lecture as part of the series of lectures "Strengthening democracy and human rights: Education as a response to right-wing extremism?".

Lecture as part of the series of lectures "Strengthening democracy and human rights: Education as a response to right-wing extremism?".

Williamson, B., Macgilchrist, F., & Potter, J. (2024). Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment. Learning, Media and Technology, 49(4), 523-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2436835 

In this publication (Asmuss et al., 2024), she uncovers how media depicted the Quantified Self and Maker Communities during the COVID pandemic. Link to journal: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2023-0077/html

As part of the international Double Symposium "The Politics of EdTech: Exploring the changing conditions of educational governance in the age of technocapitalism", they will discuss findings from their PhD projects in March 2025 in Chicago.