Katharina Poltze
Katharina Poltze
Katharina Poltze is an educational and social scientist working as a research fellow in the Digital Education in Schools research group at the University of Oldenburg (UOL). In her dissertation, she explores making practices and practices of failure in the context of FabLabs and Maker Spaces as extracurricular, postdigital educational environments. She primarily works with participatory, designoriented, and qualitative-ethnographic research methods.
Curriculum vitae
Katharina Poltze is a research fellow and docotral researcher in the Digital Education in Schools research group at the University of Oldenburg (UOL) since July 2024. Previously, from May 2020 to June 2024, she was a research fellow and doctoral researcher in the collaborative project FaBuLoUS: Supporting schools by teaching and learning in Fablabs, in the Department of Media Transformations at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute. There, she conducted research using participatory, designoriented, and ethnographic methods, particularly focusing on practices in FabLabs and Maker Spaces as extracurricular, postdigital educational environments.
Katharina Poltze completed her Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where she also completed her Master's degree in Educational Science with a focus on educational, professionalization, and socialization research. In her master's thesis, she explored 'processes of communicatively-networked relationship formation' in the context of dating apps. After completing her studies, she worked as a research associate in the 'Media Research with a Focus on Educational Media' department at the Institute of Educational Science in Göttingen from January to April 2020.
Lectures
Winter term 2024 / 2025
Publications
*Poltze, Katharina & Schröder, Birte (Eds.) (2024). Putting knowledge(s) into perspective? Wissen, Reflexivität und (Multi-)Perspektivität in Bildungsmedien. Bildungsmedienforschung. Studien des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsmedien - Band 155. Göttingen: V&R unipress. (Open Access)
*Schröder, Birte; Poltze, Katharina & Wiatr, Marcin (2024). (Multi-)Perspektivität in Bildungsmedien. Eine Einleitung. In Katharina Poltze, & Birte Schröder (Eds.), Putting knowledge(s) into perspective?Wissen, Reflexivität und (Multi-) Perspektivität in Bildungsmedien. (Open Access)
Autorinnenkollektiv FaBuLoUS. (2024). Möglichkeitsräume zwischen FabLabs und Schulen: Perspektiven und praktische Erkundungen. München: Kopaed. (Open Access)
Poltze, Katharina & Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2024). Postdigitalität und Storytelling: Perspektiven für Making mit Schüler*innen im FabLab. In Autorinnenkollektiv Fabulous (Eds.). Möglichkeitsräume zwischen FabLabs und Schulen: Perspektiven und praktische Erkundungen. (Open Access)
Poltze, Katharina & Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2024). Making beyond MINT: Postdigital Storytelling im FabLab. In Autorinnenkollektiv Fabulous (Eds.). Möglichkeitsräume zwischen FabLabs und Schulen: Perspektiven und praktische Erkundungen. (Open Access)
Poltze, Katharina (2023). Review of Petar Jandrić, Alison MacKenzie, and Jeremy Knox (Eds.). (2023). Constructing Postdigital Research: Method and Emancipation. Postdigital Science and Education, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00438-0 (Open Access)
*Poltze, Katharina; Demuth, Karin; Eke, Sabrin; Moebus, Antje; Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2022): Erfahrungen des Partizipierens. Reflexionen zu partizipativen Forschungs- und Gestaltungsprozessen. Bildungsforschung 2022(2). 1-14. https://doi.org/10.25539/bildungsforschung.v0i2.900 (Open Access)
Poltze, Katharina (2021): 'Being Home', 'The Last Year', 'Behind the Mask', 'What is in the West of Westeros?', 'The Secret of Pixies'. In Gibbs, Laura (Ed.). Tiny Tales from the Digital Pedagogy Lab 2021: A Book of 100-Word Stories (and Shorter). 8,11,13,132,148-149. (Open Access)
*Völcker, Matthias; Landeck, Sascha; Poltze, Katharina; Schreck, Melanie; Heinemeyer, Denise (2020). Dating-Apps im intersubjektiven Geschehen: Tinder, Grindr und Co. als Optionen der Beziehungsinitiierung. ZQF – Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 1-2020, 69-85. https://doi.org/10.3224/zqf.v21i1.05 (Open Access)
Poltze, Katharina (2020). Forschung: Von Qualifikationsarbeiten bis zu Drittmittelförderung. In Bers, Christiana (Ed.). 100 Jahre Erziehungswissenschaft an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1920-2020. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Studien, Band 4, 81-89. (Open Access)
(*peer reviewed)