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
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 / Zarrath, Annika / Paschelke, Sarah / Krause, Ulrike-Marie (2024): The role of agile processes in digital transformation in schools: results of an interview study, in: Jungwirth et al. (eds.): Wegmarken für eine zeitgemäße Lehrkräftebildung - Konzeptionelle Ansätze im Fokus. 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 programmes - an intervention study. Presentation at the Zukunftsforum Bildungsforschung 2022 - Bildung in einer von Digitalisierung geprägten Welt, 24-25 November 2022, Online.
Gronau, Kirsten / Vogelpohl, Karen (2022): Fostering Teachers' Integration of ICT in Teaching - a Systematic Review. Presentation at the 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): Digitale Bildung in der Lehrkräftefortbildung, in: Maurer, C. / Rincke, K. / Holzäpfel, L. / Lipowsky, F. (eds.): Wie viel Wissenschaft braucht die Lehrerfortbildung - Arbeitsbündnisse im analogen und virtuellen Raum, conference proceedings of the Online-QLB-Tagung an der Universität 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. Presentation at the ECER - European Conference on Educational Research, "Educational Research (Re)connecting Communities", Network Teacher Education Research, 23-28 August, Glasgow. [Event was cancelled due to the corona pandemic]
Markussen, Kris / Alich, Kirsten / Gerdes, Jana / Daeglau, Mareike / Pancratz, Nils / Diethelm, Ira (2019): Über Lottofeen zu (mehr) Computernerds, in: Pasternak, A. (ed.): Computing Science für alle, Tagungsband der 18. GI-Fachtagung Computing Science und Schule, p. 381.
Training courses and workshops
Co-development of the training course "Getting ahead with the digital transformation at school - using agile processes" as part of the project "Digitalisation in teacher training in Oldenburg", Oldenburg Training Centre (OFZ), September 2023 to June 2024, https://l.uol.de/diollschulentwicklungskonzept.
Training course "Digital education from a (subject) didactic perspective" in the series "Digital and pedagogically fit in the new reality of teaching and learning at school - for newcomers, lateral entrants and lateral entrants to the academic appointment as a teacher", Bildungshaus Wolfsburg / Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training Braunschweig, June 2023.
(with Nicolas Arndt): Workshop "Dangers and limits of digitalisation" as part of an internal school training course, Herbart Gymnasium Oldenburg, April 2023.
Micro advanced training "Creative, collaborative, critical - digital education for every subject?", Oldenburg Advanced Training Centre, November 2022.
(with Karen Vogelpohl): Leader of the internal school training course (SchiLF) "Schule in der Digitalität", Gymnasium Buxtehude Süd, April 2022.
(with Alina Großmann): Advanced training course "Blended Learning for lecturers", Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development, July 2021.
Workshop "Teaching digital education in a competence-oriented way", Pedagogical Week Oldenburg, September 2020.
Workshop "Der Blume geht ein Licht auf - Blockbasiertes Programmieren, 3D-Druck, Mikrocontroller und das Internet of Things", Didaktik der Computing Science an der University of Oldenburg, August 2018 to June 2019.