AG Prof. Dr. Petra Büker
Welcome to the website of the Department of Primary School Pedagogy and Early Education. Children and their educational processes are at the centre of our research and teaching. In particular, we investigate the conditions and concepts of child-orientated education in nurseries and primary schools. The children's perspective plays an important role here - also in connection with questions relating to the professionalisation of educational subject areas and teachers.
„Children and their educational processes are at the centre of our research and teaching.”
About us
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In our group, academic staff and a lecturer for special tasks conduct research and teach under the direction of Prof. Dr. Petra Büker. We are supported by our secretary and our research and student assistants.
Teaching
Our group offers courses for teacher training students in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes. One focus is on primary school teaching, but we also address students on the Special Needs Education programme and the two-subject Bachelor's degree in Education Studies. You can find our courses on the staff pages and in PAUL. Good teaching is particularly important to us. That is why we are committed to developing, trialling and evaluating new teaching/learning concepts and materials.
Our profile is characterised by basic and practical research in the following key areas:
- Participation in daycare centres and primary schools
- Participatory research with children
- Transitions
- ESD in primary school
- Heterogeneity and inclusion in daycare centres and primary schools
- Research-based learning in teacher training
- Linking inclusion and digitalisation in teacher education: OER and OEP
Publications
Transitionen von Kindern mit erschwerten Lern- und Teilhabevoraussetzungen begleiten
J. Schlesier, A. Rank, D. Then, S. Pohlmann-Rother, J. Herding, P. Büker, U. Carle, in: M. Peschel, P. Kihm, M. Platz, L.M. Gebauer (Eds.), Bezugsnotwendigkeiten in der Grundschule. Pädagogik und Fachdidaktik in der Grundschulbildung, 1st ed., Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn, 2026, pp. 143–154.
Das Zentrum für KinderBildungsForschung als hybrider Ort der Vernetzung von Wissenschaft und Praxis im Grundschullehramtsstudium
P. Büker, K. Glawe, Vernetzung in Hochschullernwerkstätten – einen Schritt weiter gehen. Bedingung, Mehrwert und Herausforderung (2025) 169–180.
Das Lehr‑/Lernkonzept inklud‐e: Durch videobasierte Fallarbeit Studierende des Grundschullehramtes für Inklusion sensibilisieren
J. Herding, K. Glawe, S.V. Caci, P. Büker, in: H. Güneşli, T. Albers, M.M. Mombeck, J. Jesuthasan (Eds.), Diskurse und Praktiken der Heterogenität, Beltz Juventa, 2025, pp. 163–177.
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Poster contributions and presentations
Neue Wege in der Lehre: Primarstufenlehrkräftebildung im Kontext von Inklusion und Chancengerechtigkeit in der PrimOER-Community transformativ gestalten. Posterbeitrag an der 38. Jahrestagung der Inklusionsforscher:innen. Universität zu Köln.
P. Büker, A.-M. Kamin, G. Oevel, J. Herding, N.C. Basten, L. Bruhnke, C. Henning, V. Jaenke, M. Knurr, in: 2025.
„Inklusive, chancengerechte Bildung durch die Kooperation von Lehrenden verbessern? – Fragen und Perspektiven im Rahmen des Aufbaus einer OER-Community für die Primarstufenlehrkräftebildung“. Workshopbeitrag im Rahmen der BMBF-Vernetzungstagung: OER im Blick. Fördern. Vernetzen. Fortentwickeln. Jena.
P. Büker, G. Oevel, J. Herding, L. Bruhnke, in: 2025.
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KiBi-TZ Transfer Centre: Cooperation with regional practice
A new transfer office has been created in our department, which is part of the established university learning workshop KiBi-Z (Centre for Child Education Research). Here, students, teachers and practitioners from the OWL education region are brought together in a regular exchange in order to practise a so-called "culture of sharing". Prof. Dr. Petra Büker and Dr. Katrin Glawe (coordinator of KiBi-Z) bring students, school headmasters, teachers and educators into contact via a digital platform. Among other things, student work (research findings and teaching materials) is made available and discussed here in a practical format. In addition, at least two round tables per year are established at which the university and practitioners address current topics in primary school pedagogy and early education in a face-to-face format. Cooperation agreements have already been concluded with several primary schools in the region. The kick-off event took place in May 2024.
Further information (press release)
Practical tools
Scientifically based instruments developed by us for use in the training and further education of pedagogical subject areas and teachers as well as in daycare centres and primary schools:
Contact us
We can be contacted by e-mail and telephone using the contact details on our team page can be contacted.
Please send letters and parcels for the group to the following address:
Paderborn University
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Institute of Education Studies
AG Grundschulpädagogik und Frühe Bildung
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
For student matters (e.g. handing in certificates and term papers) there is also a post box on H5 in the connecting corridor between rooms H5.119 and H5.319.