The research area follows questions of pedagogical action, educational biographies and pedagogical professionalisation in educational settings at primary level (primary school) and their co-operation and networking with socio-educational fields of action/providers (day care centres; open and association-based child and youth work; school social work; socio-educational prevention and counselling settings; educational support).

Research and teaching at the intradisciplinary interfaces of school and socio-educational analysis contexts are based on organisational pedagogical (school development), educational theory (educational biographical starting points and processes in childhood) and professional theory.

Building up knowledge about the tasks associated with child protection, statutory mandates and options for action in schools and lessons is a primary educational professionalism feature and part of our higher education didactic professionalisation strategy. Child protection affects the educational biographies of children of primary school age from the school entry phase to the transition to secondary schools and is an organisational part of the cooperation relationships of an individual school within the local educational landscape of its catchment area.