Kirsten Gronau
Kirsten Gronau
Kirsten Gronau has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Oldenburg since 2019. At the end of project DiOLL, she worked on the design and evaluation of online learning elements for blended learning teacher training courses, was involved in the development of a concept for school development in digitalisation and gave training courses for teachers on the topic of digital education. Previously, she was employed in the SMILE project in the Didactics of Computing Science, where she developed and conducted Computing Science workshops for girls.
Kirsten Gronau studied the subjects English, Computing Science and History (M.Ed.) as well as German as a foreign language / German as a second language (M.A.). She also has experience as a teacher at an integrated comprehensive school and as a university lecturer and trainer in the areas of school development, language in the classroom and digital education.
Kirsten Gronau's research focus is on empirical educational research in the school and university context; in particular on the topics of digital education and linguistic heterogeneity in teacher training and school development. In her doctoral project, Kirsten Gronau is investigating the pedagogical reasoning of student teachers in the context of digital education, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence technologies.
Lectures
Winter term 2026 / 2027
Summer term 2026
Winter term 2025 / 2026
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2023 / 2024
Summer term 2023
Winter term 2022 / 2023
Summer term 2022
Winter term 2021 / 2022
Winter term 2020 / 2021
Summer term 2020
Winter term 2019 / 2020
Publications and lectures
Gronau, Kirsten / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2026): Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Reasoning, EARLI SIG 4 & 11 ‘Innovation and Reflection in Teacher Education and Higher Education’, 10–13 June, Helsinki. Slides: cloud.uol.de/s/s4Q867HMPZxwnXF
Gronau, Kirsten / Zarrath, Annika / Paschelke, Sarah / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2024): The role of agile processes in digital transformation in schools: Findings from an interview study, in: Jungwirth et al. (eds.): Milestones for Contemporary Teacher Education – A Focus on Conceptual Approaches. Proceedings of the 16th Federal Congress of the Centres for Teacher Education.
Gronau, Kirsten / Vogelpohl, Karen / Peters, Laura N. / Zarrath, Annika / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2023): Integration of Educational Technologies into Teaching: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies. Presentation at the ECER – European Conference on Educational Research, “The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research”, Network Teacher Education Research, 21–25 August, Glasgow.
Gronau, Kirsten / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2022): Technological-pedagogical knowledge and argumentation in teacher training – an intervention study. Presentation at the Future Forum on Educational Research 2022 – Education in a World Shaped by Digitalisation, 24–25 November 2022, online.
Gronau, Kirsten / Vogelpohl, Karen (2022): Fostering Teachers’ Integration of ICT in Teaching – a Systematic Review. Presentation as part of EARLI SIG11 – European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, ‘Digital Transformation in Teaching and Teacher Education’, Special Interest Group 11 (Teaching and Teacher Education), 22–24 June 2022, Oldenburg.
Vogelpohl, Karen / Alich, Kirsten (2021): Digital Education in Teacher Training, in: Maurer, C. / Rincke, K. / Holzäpfel, L. / Lipowsky, F. (eds.): How Much Research Does Teacher Training Need? – Working Alliances in Analogue and Virtual Spaces, Proceedings of the Online QLB Conference at the University of Regensburg 2021, pp. 64–67.
Alich, Kirsten / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2020): Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes, Knowledge and Understandings of Teaching with and about Information and Communications Technology. Paper presented at the ECER – European Conference on Educational Research, “Educational Research (Re)connecting Communities”, Network Teacher Education Research, 23–28 August, Glasgow. [Event cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic]
Markussen, Kris / Alich, Kirsten / Gerdes, Jana / Daeglau, Mareike / Pancratz, Nils / Diethelm, Ira (2019): From Lottery Fairies to (More) Computer Nerds, in: Pasternak, A. (ed.): Computing Science for All, Proceedings of the 18th GI Symposium on Computing Science and Schools, p. 381.
Training courses and workshops
Co-development of the professional development course ‘Making progress with digital transformation in schools – utilising agile processes’ as part of the ‘Digitalisation in Teacher Training in Oldenburg’ project, Oldenburg Centre for Continuing Professional Development (OFZ), September 2023 to June 2024, https://l.uol.de/diollschulentwicklungskonzept.
Professional development course ‘Digital Education from a (Subject-)Didactic Perspective’ as part of the series ‘Digitally and Pedagogically Prepared for the New Reality of Teaching and Learning in Schools – for New, Career-Changers and Lateral Entrants to the Teaching Profession’, Bildungshaus Wolfsburg / Braunschweig Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training, June 2023.
(with Nicolas Arndt): Workshop ‘Risks and Limits of Digitalisation’ as part of an in-school professional development programme, Herbart Gymnasium, Oldenburg, April 2023.
Micro-training session “Creative, collaborative, critical – digital education for every subject”, Oldenburg Training Centre, November 2022.
(with Karen Vogelpohl): Led the in-school professional development (SchiLF) programme “School in the Digital Age”, Buxtehude Süd Grammar School, April 2022.
(with Alina Großmann): Training course ‘Blended Learning for Trainers’, Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development, July 2021.
Workshop “Teaching digital education with a focus on competences”, Oldenburg Education Week, September 2020.
Workshop: ‘A Light Goes On for Blume – Block-Based Programming, 3D Printing, Microcontrollers and the Internet of Things’, Didactics of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, August 2018 to June 2019.