Julia Lüpkes
Julia Lüpkes
Curriculum Vitae
Summer semester 2010/11 to summer semester 2011
Lectureships at the University of Vechta in the field of General Studies didactics
Since February 2008
Teaching staff for special tasks and research assistant at the University of Oldenburg in the Institute of Educational Sciences / Interdisciplinary General Studies Working Group / General Studies
August 2007 to January 2008
Educational officer at the Bildungswerk der Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft, project lead for the ‘Navy’ project (supporting secondary school leavers in their transition to working life)
Summer semester 2007 to winter semester 2007/08
Lecturer at the University of Bremen in the field of general studies didactics, specialising in ‘General Studies in Early Education’
February 2006 to December 2006
Provisional teacher and headteacher at Oldeoogeschule primary school in Wilhelmshaven
December 2001 to January 2006
Research assistant at Vechta University of Applied Sciences in the field of General Studies didactics
Awarded the Teaching Prize twice (2005 and 2006)
April 2000 – September 2001
Trainee teacher at the Vechta Teacher Training College, teaching at Lindern and Emstekerfeld primary schools
Winter Term 1997 – Summer Term 2000
Supplementary degree course in School Education at Vechta University of Applied Sciences, graduating with a Diplom in Education
Research assistant in the subject of General Studies
June 1997
Passed the First State Examination for teaching at primary and lower secondary schools in the subjects of German, General Studies and Protestant religious education, with distinction
Winter Semester 1993/94 to Summer Semester 1997
Studied at Vechta University of Applied Sciences
Student assistant in German Studies, General Studies, Education, Educational Psychology and Gerontology
May 1993
Abitur at the Albert Einstein Grammar School in Hamelin
Research focus
Teaching and Learning Approaches in General Studies
Queer/gender studies
Sexuality education in General Studies
Teaching
Lectures
Winter term 2026 / 2027
Summer term 2026
Winter term 2025 / 2026
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2024 / 2025
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2023 / 2024
Summer term 2023
Winter term 2022 / 2023
Summer term 2022
Winter term 2021 / 2022
Summer term 2021
Winter term 2020 / 2021
Summer term 2020
Winter term 2019 / 2020
Summer term 2019
Winter term 2018 / 2019
Summer term 2018
Winter term 2017 / 2018
Summer term 2017
Winter term 2016 / 2017
Summer term 2016
Winter term 2015 / 2016
Summer term 2015
Former courses
Summer Semester 2015
Bachelor’s thesis (General Studies only) (1.04.201)
Initial Assessment of Learning and Support in General Studies I (1.04.033)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies II (1.04.034)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies III – Individual Assessment Procedures (1.04.035)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies V (1.04.037)
Preparation for the orientation internship (ISB) (1.04.120)
Winter semester 2014/2015
Exemplary Political and Social Science Learning (1.04.501)
Content of General Studies (1.04.502)
Interdisciplinary content: Sexuality and gender (1.04.305)
Interdisciplinary Content: Sexual Diversity as a Dominant Culture? (1.04.306)
Interdisciplinary General Studies/General Studies M.Ed. (70.05.070)
Interdisciplinary General Studies (BA/BSc) (70.05.032)
Methods of Political and General Studies (1.04.503)
Bachelor’s Thesis (General Studies only) (1.04.201)
Initial Assessment and Support in General Studies I – Group Assessment Methods (1.04.033)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies II – Mirola (1.04.034)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies III – Individual Assessment Methods (1.04.035)
Preparation for the orientation internship (ISB) (1.04.120)
Interdisciplinary General Studies (General Studies)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies V – Screening Procedures (1.04.037)
Exemplary Political and Social Science Learning (1.04.501)
Content of social science General Studies (1.04.502)
Methods of Political and Social Science General Studies (1.04.503)
Preparation for the subject-specific teaching placement (1.04.601)
Interdisciplinary General Education (B.A./B.Sc.) (70.05.032)
Bachelor’s Thesis (General Studies only)
Preparation for the orientation internship (General Studies only)
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies I – Individual Assessment Method
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies II – group-based assessment method: Mirola
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies III – group assessment methods
Initial learning assessment and support in General Studies V – individual assessment method: “Da bin ich”
Exemplary learning in political and social sciences
Content of social science General Studies
Methods of political and social science General Studies
Preparation for the subject-specific teaching placement – General Studies
Bachelor’s thesis (General Studies only)
Initial assessment and support in General Studies, focus: Diagnostic procedures for groups
Initial Learning Assessment and Support in General Studies II, Focus: Individual Assessment Methods
Preparation for the orientation internship (General Studies only)
Exemplary learning in political and social sciences
Contents of social science General Studies
Methods of political and social studies in General Studies
Preparation for the Subject-Specific Placement II
Introductory lessons in General Studies 1: Structuring transitions in General Studies
Introductory lessons in General Studies 2: Pedagogical techniques in General Studies
Bachelor’s thesis (General Studies only)
Initial assessment and support in General Studies
Assessment
Orientation internship (general studies only)
Project-based study in General Studies: Methodology for an exemplary topic – Pirates
Summer Semester 2011
University of Vechta: Introduction to social and cultural studies in General Studies
Winter Semester 2010/11
University of Vechta: Selected Issues in Cultural and Social Science Learning
Summer Semester 2010
Vechta University of Applied Sciences: Introduction to learning in the cultural and social sciences in General Studies
Summer Term 2007
University of Bremen: General Studies in Early Primary Education (4 modules)
University of Bremen: Girls in General Studies
Other activities
Member of the General Studies Expert Committee
Organisation of professional development events, workshops, training sessions and lectures
- on perceptual assessment at various primary schools
- on addressing the concept of ‘gender’ at various primary schools
- on sex education and the focus on the (prevention of) sexualised violence against children
Advisory board activities
Member of the advisory board of the journal ‘weltwissen General Studies’
Publications
Theses:
- Lüpkes, J. (1997). Lernwerkstätten for primary schools. Seminar papers for the teaching qualification examination for primary and lower secondary schools. Unpublished final-year dissertation, University of Vechta, Vechta.
- Lüpkes, J. (2000). Reflective co-education as an innovative potential in the school programme. Seminar paper for the diploma examination in the supplementary school studies programme. Unpublished final-year dissertation, University of Vechta, Vechta.
Monographs and edited volumes:
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2011). Learning in General Studies: Lesson Planning, Learning Tasks, Learning Pathways (2nd edition). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2009). Learning in General Studies. Lesson planning, learning tasks, learning pathways. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
Articles in journals or anthologies:
- Lüpkes, J. (1997). Reviews (children’s books). Primary School Journal, 103.
- Hempel, M., Lüpkes, J. (1998). Louise Otto-Peters – Woman and Democrat. Primary School, 12, 43–45.
- Lüpkes, J. (1999). Learning through planning. In M. Hempel (Ed.), Children’s learning pathways: Student-centred learning and teaching in primary schools (pp. 206–217). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
- Lüpkes, J. (2001). Planning and children’s participation in General Studies. Vechta Research and Reports on Subject Didactics, 4.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2002). Learning Pathways in General Studies: Perception and Observation. Primary School Teaching, 12, 52–55.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2004). Learning Pathways in General Studies: Discovering and Exploring (II). Primary School Teaching, 3, 58–60.
- Lüpkes, J. (2004). Family – with new perspectives! In M. Hempel (Ed.), Learning through General Studies (pp. 99–116). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2005). Learning pathways in General Studies: Cooperating and communicating. Primary School Teaching, 4, 33–35.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2005). Learning Pathways in General Studies: Documenting and Presenting. Primary School Teaching, 10, 36–38.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2006). Learning approaches in General Studies: Learning through collecting and organising. Primary School Teaching, 4, 40–44.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2007). Learning pathways in General Studies: Learning through planning and participation. Primary School Teaching, 4, 43–46.
- Hempel, M. & Lüpkes, J. (2008). Learning pathways in General Studies: Research and experimentation. Primary School Teaching, 1, 29–31.
- Lüpkes, J. (2013). Learning in primary school between stories and history: A history of constructions of truth and reality, fiction and communication. In A. Becher, S. Miller, I. Oldenburg, D. Pech & C. Schomaker (Eds.), Communicative General Studies: Facets of Development (pp. 63–81). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
- Lüpkes, J. (2014). Learning in primary school between stories and history, or: What makes a story about the past a non-fiction book for historical learning? In M. Oetken & I. Oldenburg (Eds.), Narrating. Representing. Reporting: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Non-Fiction in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (pp. 95–110). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
- Oldenburg, I. & Lüpkes, Julia (2015). Primary school and the media as key players in sex education – an empirical analysis from the perspective of primary school children. In H.-J. Fischer, H. Giest & K. Michalik (Eds.), Education in and through General Studies (pp. 197–202). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2015). How much diversity can a democratic society tolerate? Primary School, 3, 26–28.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2015). Sex education from *Bravo*? What children learn from the media and what consequences this has for schools. *Grundschule*, 3, 23–25.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2015). A sensitive topic: How the current lines of discourse on ‘sex education’ are unfolding in society, schools and academia. Grundschule, 3, 6–9.
- Lüpkes, J. & Meyer-Ahrens, O. (2015). Of monsters and other sources of fear. How you, as a teacher, can help your pupils come to terms with their private television viewing. Primary School, 6, 22–25.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2016). Treading the line of modesty with humour? Sex education as social education in Years 1 and 2. Weltwissen General Studies, 1, 6–7.
- Oldenburg, I. & Lüpkes, J. (2016). SSex education and love: A big topic made easy with ‘Aunt Lisbeth and Love’. Weltwissen General Studies, 1, 34–41.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oltmanns, A. (2016). Starting school: a new social environment. Weltwissen General Studies, 1, 8–17.
- Lüpkes, J. & Fahl, F. (2016). Don’t mind the gender gap! Sexual education as gender-reflective social education. Weltwissen General Studies, 1, 18–25.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2016). More than just flowers, bees and the stork. Initial approaches to the subject area sexuality. Primary School Teaching: General Studies, 2 , 25–29.
- Lüpkes, J. & Noa, S. (2016). Media recommendations. Weltwissen General Studies, 1, 54.
- Oldenburg, I. & Lüpkes, J. (2017). Sex Education in the Context of Multi-Perspectivity in General Studies. In H. Giest, A. Hartinger & S. Tänzer (Eds.), Multi-Perspectivity in General Studies (pp. 74–82). Bad Heilbrunn; Klinkhardt.
- Lüpkes, J. (2017). Together rather than alone. Methods for promoting prosocial behaviour. General Studies Weltwissen, Issue 4/2017, pp. 14–18.
- Lüpkes, J. (2018). History in stories – a balancing act between the didactics of literature and general studies. In: Thöming, Anja-Rosa (ed., 2018): Enjoying the Arts. Festschrift for Gudrun Schulz. Vechta: Geest, pp. 600–636.
- Lüpkes, J. (2018): When the whole troop of monkeys roars. Species-appropriate animal husbandry using zoo animals as an example. General Studies 3.
- Schreiter, F & Lüpkes, J. (2019). Why we first ‘otherise’ others. …and how things can be different. General Studies: World Knowledge, 2, 18–23.
- Ahmadi, F., Schindler, Ch. & Lüpkes, J. (2019). Children encounter cultures through games. Kite-making in Afghanistan. General Studies: World Knowledge, 2, 24–29.
- Oldenburg, I. & Lüpkes, J. (2019). What is a prejudice? General Studies: World Knowledge, 2, 47–48.
- Lüpkes, J. (2019): Bringing the magic of museums into the classroom. Working with a museum kit. General Studies Weltwissen, 3/2019, 44–45.
- Lüpkes, J. (2019): Growing up with books – a checklist for a gender-sensitive class library. Primary School, 5, 14–17.
- Lüpkes, J. (2019): When Perception Is Impaired... Primary School, 6, 24–27.
- Lüpkes, J. (2019): With the right strategy. Primary School, 7, 18–21.
- Lüpkes, J. (2020): Shaping the world together. Primary School 2, 48–51.
- Lüpkes, J. (2020): Learning from the past. Primary School 3, 55.
- Lüpkes, J. (2020): The art of classroom discussion. Primary School 3, 17–21.
- Lüpkes, J. (2020): Developing Motor Skills Through Play. Primary School 5, 50–52.
- Lüpkes, J. (2021): Globalisation in the larder. Children take responsibility. General Studies: World Knowledge 2, 6–7.
- Lüpkes, J. & Oldenburg, I. (2021): Food on everyone’s lips – in words and form. An unconventional breakfast chat about our food. General Studies 2, 16–19.
- Lüpkes, J. & Reiz, R. (2021): Thinking Ahead: A Balanced Diet with Fun and Love for One’s Own Body. The Secrets to Success of a Nutrition Assistant. General Studies: World Knowledge 2, 44–45.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2021): Strengthened for the Future. In: Primary School 4, 6–10.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2021): Who Can Come to Power and How. Elections as Seen Through the Eyes of Voters and Elected Representatives. In: General Studies: Weltwissen 3, 8–15.
- Dreher, Tilman/ Lüpkes, Julia (2021): Is it permissible to be against democracy? In: Weltwissen General Studies 3, 47–48.
- Baune, Alina/ Lüpkes, Julia (2021): Learning for life through biographies. Primary School 4, 18–23.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2022): With Heart and Mind. Human Encounters in Historical Learning. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 3, 6–7.
- Fiebig, Nina/ Sczesny, Caroline/ Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Gail Halvorsen. The ‘Chocolate Pilot’ of Berlin and international understanding. In: General Studies World Knowledge 3, 8–14.
- Arnkens, Christina/ Fittje, Andrea/ Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Rita Levi-Montalcini refuses to be beaten. From a shy girl to a grande dame of science. In: General Studies World Knowledge 3, 16–24.
- Lewandowski, Saskia/ Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Maria Sibylla Merian. A woman knows what she wants. In: General Studies 3, 26–33.
- Ellmann, Kerstin/ Meyer, Mia/ Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Lise Meitner. The power of dreams. In: General Studies World Knowledge 3, 34–43.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Empowering children. Further possible approaches. In: General Studies Weltwissen 3, 44–45.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Was everything worse in the past? In: General Studies: World Knowledge 3, 47–48.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2022): Reviews. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 3, 49.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2023): ‘War’ as a challenge for teachers. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 1, 6–8.
- Brummack, Lena/ Damer, Sophie/ Räker, Lena Marie/ Riesselmann, Paula/ Lüpkes, Julia (2023): Concept Cartoon ‘Can a war ever be just?’ A central issue – many questions. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 1, 10–15.
- Backhaus, Jule/ Baron, Kea/ Meyer, Lena/ Meyer, Jule/ Horstmann, Ida/ Mildner, Lina/ Kowalzik, Lena/ Nowak, Sharleen/ Lüpkes, Julia (2023): Questions that make you think. Working with the philosophical question box. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 1, 16–21.
- Fernandes, Luis/ Laisakul, Nina/ Lüpkes, Julia/ Rußmann, Nane (2023): A picture domino explains complex interrelationships. The war between Ukraine and Russia. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 1, 22–31.
- Benz, Lea Maria/ Grünendick, Sophia/ Pönitz, Julie-Pauline/ Lüpkes, Julia (2023): Is war the same as a quarrel? A picture book explains the technical differences and helps to alleviate fear and feelings of powerlessness. In: General Studies 1, 32–44.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2023): How can peace be restored? 7 questions – 7 answers that aren’t so easy to find! In: General Studies World Knowledge 1, 47–48.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2023): Reviews: Websites. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 1, 49.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Sexual violence against children. Perpetrator strategies and elements of effective protection for children. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 4, 6–9.
- Oltmanns, Andrea/ Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Experiencing community. Sex education for relaxed and respectful coexistence. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 4, 10–19.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Unravelling Finn’s Secret. Effectively countering the grooming process. In General Studies: World Knowledge 4, 20–29.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Beauty comes from within. Children develop physical self-confidence through a sense of well-being. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 4, 30–37.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Standing up for oneself through non-violent communication. Giraffe language for greater self-efficacy. In: General Studies: World Knowledge 4, 38–43.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Strong children, strong schools. Prevention in everyday school life, across all subjects, every day. In: General Studies Weltwissen 4, 44–46.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Tricky Questions. Why do some adults bully children? In: Weltwissen General Studies 4, 47–48.
- Lüpkes, Julia (2025): Media tips. In: General Studies Weltwissen 4, 49.
Conference papers
- Lüpkes, J. (2014). Do teachers know how children ‘feel and what they want’?: An empirical approach to the educational potential of the subject area of sexuality. Hamburg: GDSU Annual Conference.
- Lüpkes, J. (2015). ‘I don’t want to know anything specific about sex education, but rather lots of different things’: Empirical findings on sex education at the intersection of natural science and social science perspectives in General Studies. Erfurt: GDSU Annual Conference.