Biography

Prof Dr Yvonne Ehrenspeck-Kolasa is a university professor of general education at the University of Oldenburg. She studied General and Comparative Literature (AVL), Philosophy and Religious Studies as well as Art History, Sociology and Educational Science at the Free University of Berlin, where she gained her doctorate in 1997 and habilitated in 2003 in the Department of Educational Science and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin. Her research focuses include Historical educational research, theory of science, historical epistemology, theoretical and empirical media reception research and media appropriation research, historical anthropology, research on formats of reading and learning promotion with digital devices, learning platforms, wareables and apps in schools, non-formal and informal educational contexts, design of learning environments with digital media, attention and ADHD research in the context of digitisation processes, digitisation, professionalisation and school development, transformations of the educational system and science system in the context of digitisation processes.

Selected publications

Ehrenspeck-Kolasa, Y. (2019): Diagnosis of "inattention". In Alkemeyer, T./Buschmann, N. Etzemüller, T./ (eds.): Diagnoses of the present. Cultural Forms of Social Self-Problematisation in the Modern Age. transcript. Social Theory. Bielefeld, pp. 377-399.

Ehrenspeck-Kolasa, Y. (2018): Philosophical educational research. Theory of education. In: Tippelt, R./Schmidt-Hertha, B. (Eds.): Handbook of educational research. Springer 2018, pp. 1-26.

Böhme, H./Ehrenspeck, Y. (eds.) (2016): Walter Benjamin. Aura and reflection. Writings on art theory and aesthetics. Selected and with an afterword by Hartmut Böhme and Yvonne Ehrenspeck. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp Verlag.

Viertel, M/Ehrenspeck-Kolasa, Y./Spies, A. (2017): Digital reading promotion at primary schools between aspiration and reality. In: Mayrberger, K./Fromme, J./Grell, P./Hug, T. (eds.): Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 13. Vernetzt und entgrenzt - Gestaltung von Lernumgebungen mit digitalen Medien, Springer VS, pp. 151-165.

Ehrenspeck-Kolasa, Y. (2015): Attention in 18th century pedagogy. On J. F. Campes' writing: "The education of young children's souls. In: Reh, S./Berdelmann, K./Dinkelaker, J. (eds.): Attention. On the history, theory and empiricism of a pedagogical phenomenon. Springer Wiesbaden, pp. 21-38.

Ehrenspeck, Y. (2013): The formation of attention. Pedagogical constructions of a phenomenon of perception and consciousness in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In: Bilstein, J./M. Brumlik: The formation of the body. Weinheim. Juventa, pp.72-90.

Ehrenspeck, Y. (2013): Keyword: Aesthetics and education. In: Gogolin, I./H. Kuper/ H.-H. Krüger/J. Baumert (eds.): Keyword: Journal for Educational Science. Wiesbaden. VS Verlag, pp. 77-97.

Ehrenspeck, Y./Sander, U. (2007) (Eds.): Focus: Media research in educational science. In: Journal for Educational Science. 10th year, issue 4. Wiesbaden. VS Verlag.

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