Alexandra Janetzko
Abteilung "Sport und Erziehung"
Lectures
Summer term 2026
10.45.011
Begleitseminar zum Orientierungspraktikum/berufsfeldbezogenen Praktikum im Fach Sportwissenschaft 1
Winter term 2025 / 2026
Short biography
- since 03/2025 PostDoc (part-time) in the Department of Sport and Education, University of Oldenburg
- 05/2024-02/2025 on parental leave
- 09/2023-05/2024 PostDoc (part-time) in the Department of Sport and Education, University of Oldenburg
- 12/2021- 08/2023 on parental leave
- since 09/2020 PostDoc in the Department of Sport and Education, University of Oldenburg
- 06/2019-08/2020 PostDoc in the Department of Sociology and Sports Sociology, University of Oldenburg
- 05/2019 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) Title of the monograph: Talent (be)valuing. A praxeographical investigation of talent perspectives in competitive sports. Bielefeld: transcript
02/2018-03/2018 Guest researcher at Goldsmiths University in London, Department of
Communication Studies (Cultural Studies) with Prof. Angela McRobbie
- 09/2014-11/2017 Repeated guest stays of several months at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Studies with Prof. Dr Jürgen Streeck (second supervisor of the dissertation)
- 10/2013-09/2017 Fellow in the DFG Research Training Group "Selbstbildungen. Practices of subjectivation in historical and interdisciplinary perspective", University of Oldenburg
- 10/2010 - 05/2019 Research assistant in the Department of Sociology and Sociology of Sport, University of Oldenburg
- 07/2009-12/2009 semester abroad, study of sociology, University of Auckland
- 10/2007-09/2010 Master's degree in Sports Science (profile "Sport and Lifestyle", University of Oldenburg) Topic of the Master's thesis: "Recruitment criteria at the German Olympic Sports Confederation - A sports sociological study"
- 10/2004-07/2007 Bachelor's degree programme in Sports Science (profile: "Health and Management"), University of Bielefeld. Topic of the bachelor thesis "Media constructions of sporting events: Comparison of national coverage of international sporting events. Analysed on the basis of reporting in the German and Polish print media on the football World Cup match between Germany and Poland on 14.6.2006".
Research focus
- Evaluation and subjectivisation processes in (digital) sport/teaching
- Social inequality in the context of migration
- Human differentiation in sport
- Analysis, conception and evaluation of target group-specific health and exercise programmes
Publications
(Peer-reviewed) articles in journals and edited volumes
- A.Janetzko (2021). Digital teaching-learning practices and their subjects. In Zeitschrift für Studium und Lehre in der Sportwissenschaft. 4 (3), S. 6-11.
- A.Janetzko (2021). (Valuations of) sporting talent - practices and their contexts. In O. Berli/S. Nicolae/H. Schäfer (Eds.). Cultures of evaluation. Wiesbaden: Springer. S. 137-162
- A.Janetzko (2021). Un/Doing Migrationshintergrund - On the (Ir-)Relevance of a Difference Category in Sport Practices. In K. Brümmer/A. Janetzko/T.Alkemeyer (eds.): Approaches to a cultural sociology of sport. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 351-372
- Introduction. Cultural sociology of sport. In: Brümmer, K./Janetzko, A./Alkemeyer, T. (eds.): Ansätze einer Kultursoziologie des Sports. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2021, pp. 7-16 (with Kristina Brümmer and Thomas Alkemeyer).
- M.Feuchter & A.Janetzko (2018). "Refugees Welcome in Sports" - Exercise programmes for refugees in the field of tension between integration requirements and participation constraints. In Sport und Gesellschaft - Sport and Society. Vol.15 Issue 1- Focus issue on the topic: Social inequality. S. 31-62. Berlin: deGruyter
- A. Janetzko (2018). On 'talent forges' and 'born winners'. A praxeographic analysis of talent constructions in competitive sport. In A.Böker/K. Horvath (eds.). Giftedness and society. Social science perspectives on giftedness and gifted education. Wiesbaden: Springer
- A. Janetzko (2016). Professional vision. Sighting practices in dance sport. In Sport und Gesellschaft - Sport and Society. 12. (2). Focus issue 2 on the topic: Sport as cultural practice. S. 105-132. Stuttgart: Lucius and Lucius.
- A. Janetzko (2016). Selection processes in competitive sport - a praxeological consideration of talent scouting using the example of athletics. In H. Meier/L. Riedl/M. Kukuk (eds.). Migration, inclusion, integration. Sociological observations of sport. S. 49-64. Hohengehren: Schneider.
Monographs
- Evaluating talent. A praxeographic study of talent scouting in competitive sport. (2021). Bielefeld: transcript
Editorships
- Brümmer, K./Janetzko, A./Alkemeyer, T. (eds.) (2021). Approaches to a cultural sociology of sport. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Co-authorship
- A. Janetzko/R. Kodalle/T. Kalwitzki/A. Böttger (2011): Bewegungs- und Gesundheitsförderung im Stadtteil. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag.
Conference reports
- Critique of self-education. Routine and stubbornness in the practices of subjectivation. Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg "Selbst-Bildungen" as part of the Summer School of the University of Oldenburg from 13-14 September 2016. In: H/Soz/Kult on 02 December 2016 together with Björn Bertrams, David Adler, Hannes Glück and Stefan Kühnen
Lectures
LECTURES IN A SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT (SELECTION)
German language
- "Digital seminar and assessment practices in sports teacher education - An analysis based on practice and subjectivisation theory." Held on 31.03.2022 at the digital university day of the dvs in the working group "Bewerten im Sport. Sociological and educational science perspectives".
- "Digital sports teacher education - a practice- and subjectivisation-theoretical consideration of digital seminar practices." Held on 4 June 2021 at the digital conference "Figurationen sportpädagogischer Forschung und Lehre", 34th annual conference of the dvs section Sportpädagogik
- "Evaluating bodies - praxeographic perspectives on selection and analysis practices in elite sport." Held together with Kristina Brümmer on 23 October 2020 at the digital conference: "Accounting of body movements - sport as an instructive case for a sociology of evaluation."
- "Evaluating bodies - a praxeographic investigation of analysis techniques and knowledge processes in high-performance sport." Held together with Kristina Brümmer on 28 September 2019 at the Austrian Congress of Sociology in Salzburg
- "Evaluation of talent. A praxeographic investigation of screening practices in competitive sports." Held on 10 November 2017 at the conference: "Cultures of Evaluation" organised by the Sociology of Valuing and Valuing in the Sociology of Knowledge Section and the Cultural Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association in Cologne
- "Refugees Welcome in Sports - Conception and Reflection of a Sports Programme for Refugees". Held on 22 September 2016 at the annual conference of the Sports Sociology Section of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs) in Cologne
- "Conceptualising sporting talent - a praxeographic study of talent scouting in competitive sport". Held on 15 July 2016 at the workshop: "Sociological perspectives on 'talent' and 'talent promotion'" in Hildesheim
- ""The eye is much more decisive than the result" - Assessment of talent in assessment practices in competitive sport." Held on 1 October 2015 at the 22nd Sports Science University Conference in Mainz
- "The determination of potential in the practice of talent scouting". Held on 21 June 2013 at the annual conference of the Sports Sociology Section of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs) in Paderborn
In English
- "Refugees Welcome in Sports - Power Relations in the Context of Migration and Integration." Held on 27 February 2018 at the colloquium of Professor Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths University, Department of Communication Studies (Cultural Studies) in London
- ""That's what you need in professional dancing!" Talent Identification in Sports." Held on 19 September 2017 at the colloquium of Prof. Dr Jürgen Streeck, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Comminication Studies in Austin
- "Professional Vision in Sports. A praxeological Research about Scouting Practices in Germany." Held on 30 June 2015 at the Summer Conference of the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University in Lancaster
- "Constructing Talent in Sports." Held on 7 November 2014 at the workshop "Becoming Self, Becoming Subject: Perspectives and Theories about Subjectivation" organised by the "Laboratoire de Changement Social et Politique" and the Research Training Group 1608/1 "Self-Formations - Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective" in Paris
LECTURES IN A PRACTICAL CONTEXT (SELECTION)
- "Sport for refugees - tips for conception and implementation". Held on 14/11/2017 at the City of Lübeck's Interculturality and Sport symposium to advise practitioners
- "Conception and implementation of exercise programmes for immigrants - presentation of the Oldenburg projects "Migration and Mobility" and "Refugees Welcome in Sports"". Held on 25.01.2017 at the municipal integration centre StädteRegion Aachen for the further development of the integration concept there
- "Selection processes in competitive sport - screening practices in dance sport and athletics." Held on 15 November 2016 at the symposium: "Mehrperspektivisch sichten. Finding and promoting talent." Organised by the Association for the Promotion of Sporting Talent in Hessian Schools in Frankfurt am Main
- "Conceptualising sporting talent - a qualitative study of talent scouting in competitive sport". Held on 6 October 2016 at the DLV national coaches' conference in Kienbaum
Teaching experience
- Assessments in sports/teaching
- Digitalisation in sports/teaching
- Professionalisation in the school context
- Basics of teacher education
- Basics of qualitative research methods
- Qualitative research workshop
- Target group-specific project work
- Short excursions: Analysing potential fields of work for sports scientists
- Basics of sociology and the sociology of sport
- School and extracurricular internship supervision
- Final colloquium
- Introductory courses for immigrants with refugee experience
Other scientific and university policy activities
- 09/2019-10/2021 Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer at the Institute of Sport Science
- 05/2018-06/2019 Employee in the coordination of the orientation year for refugees at the University of Oldenburg
- 04/2014-09/2018 Junior spokesperson for the sports sociology section of the German Association for Sports Science (dvs)
- 03/2013 - 09/2017 Editorial director of the journal "Sport und Gesellschaft" (together with Kristina Brümmer)
- 07/2014-11/2015 Representation of the decentralised equal opportunities officer of the Institute of Sport Science
- 05/2012-07/2014 Decentralised Equal Opportunities Officer of the Institute of Sport Science
- 09/2008-04/2010 Employee in the third-party funded project "Migration and Mobility - For more movement in social space" at the University of Oldenburg
- 10/2007-04/2010 Tutor in the research area "Sport and Society" at the University of Oldenburg
- 04/2007-07/2007 Tutor in the research area "Sport and Society" at the University of Bielefeld