Educationist Teresa Sansour appointed

Dr. Teresa Sansour has been made Professor of Education and Didactics for Intellectual Disability with special focus on inclusive educational processes at the Department of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation.

Sansour studied special education at the Heidelberg University of Education. After completing her teacher training period at the State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training Heidelberg, she became a research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2012 she returned to Heidelberg, where she completed her PhD as an academic assistant in 2016 and continued her work as an academic councillor. Prior to her appointment in Oldenburg, she held professorships at the universities of Paderborn and Halle-Wittenberg.

Sansour's research interests include pedagogical interactions in the context of intellectual disabilities. She also investigates inclusive education for children with intellectual disabilities and the participation of people with multiple severe disabilities in school and outside school.