Master's theses (M.Ed.)
Master's theses (M.Ed.)
Supervision of Master's theses (M.Ed.)
The team of the "Pedagogy and Didactics of Elementary and Primary Education" department supervises and assesses Master's theses for the M.Ed. programme.
A short synopsis (2 - 3 pages) of the planned thesis and a realistic timetable must be submitted with the request for supervision.
Supervision/review of Master's theses is only possible if the research question of the planned thesis was developed and agreed upon in the context of one of our PRX courses (project volume):
PRX-GS seminar title 2024-2026:
- Absenteeism in primary schools: School as a network partner in the educational landscape (Spies)
- Absenteeism in primary school: Educational biographical perspectives on coping strategies (Spies)
- Absenteeism in primary school: Educational biographical perspectives on coping strategies (Eggert-Boraczynski)
PRX-GS seminar title 2022-2024:
- Educational biographical perspectives on life coping strategies of children at the transition from primary school to lower secondary school (Gerheim)
- Child protection in primary school (Gerheim)
- Primary school as a network partner in the educational landscape (Eggert-Boraczynski)
PRX-GS seminar title 2021-2023:
- The primary level as a network partner in the educational landscape (Spies)
- Child protection at primary level (Spies)
- Educational biographical perspectives on children's life coping strategies in the school entry phase/at the transition to secondary level I (Steinbach)
Please note for your planning that we will not be able to make any commitments for early assessments (application deadline for trainee teachers) in the summer semester in order to manage the volume of work (regular teaching examination load).
A Master's thesis (career goal: primary school teaching) based on the module biw-PRX 566
For a pdf view of the entire revised module concept biw-PRX 566 from cohort WiSe 22/23 (as of October 2022) please click here!
The educational science curriculum in the Master's programme and the associated teaching concept for the practical phase expressly provide that students with the career goal of teaching at primary schools have the option of developing their Master's thesis from their research project from the 1st - 3rd Master's semester) in the fourth Master's semester. They are free to choose either an empirical approach based on their data or a theoretical and discursive in-depth question for their Master's thesis based on their findings - which, however, always contains aspects of school development and is first assessed by the teachers accompanying this process and second assessed by another teacher outside the project context. In addition, the mandatory colloquium accompanying the Master's thesis is offered by teachers who are not involved in the project development and assessment process, so that corrective impulses can take effect here.
The concept provides three options for this:
- Starting points from SWOT findings for in-depth discursive analyses in the sense of so-called "literature work"
- Starting point for in-depth empirical analyses (individual case study) of the PZI data (e.g. content analysis, objective hermeneutics, etc.)
- Secondary analytical analyses of the group data sets and findings collected in the project volume in subsequent Master's theses (4th semester). As students in the GHR do not necessarily have to submit an empirical Master's thesis, the spectrum of thematic expansion is wide without the need to conduct new empirical surveys.