Main areas of work and con­tact per­sons

The child as a competent actor / child-empowering pedagogy

  • Resource-orientated pedagogy in daycare centres and primary schools
  • Strengthening children - empowering children: Publication of a 10-volume book series on the resource-orientated design of upbringing and education by Kohlhammer Verlag

Contact: Prof. Dr. Petra Büker

Participation of children in daycare centres and primary schools

  • Democracy and participation in daycare centres and primary schools

Contact person: Prof. Dr Petra Büker, Hannah Fernhomberg

Transition from day-care centre to primary school

  • Educational centres
  • Conditions for successful transition processes from daycare centre to primary school
  • Children's perspectives on the transition from daycare centre to primary school

Contact: Prof. Dr. Petra Büker

Transition from primary school to secondary level I

  • Children's perspectives on the transition from primary school to lower secondary level

Contact person: Prof. Dr Petra Büker, Dr Jana Herding

ESD in primary school

  • Observing and documenting children's learning opportunities in open ESD learning formats

Contact: Prof. Dr Petra Büker

Educational documentation

  • Resource-orientated observation and documentation in daycare centres and primary schools

Contact person: Prof. Dr Petra Büker, Dr Jana Herding

Heterogeneity: intersectionality, interculturality, inclusion

  • Subjective theories of primary school teachers on ethnicity and gender
  • Subjective theories of primary school teacher trainees on heterogeneity
  • Thinking inclusion from the child's perspective
  • Case work in the inclusion-oriented teacher training programme

Contact person: Dr Stefanie Cornel

Multi-professional teamwork

  • Opportunities and challenges of cross-professional collaboration between teachers, educators and school social workers in transition
  • Multi-professional teamwork in the context of inclusion

Contact person: Prof. Dr Petra Büker, Dr Jana Herding

Research-based learning in teacher training

  • Child research, teaching research, professional research
  • Development of research and reflection skills in the practical semester

Contact persons: Dr Katrin Glawe, Dr Stefanie Cornel

Linking inclusion and digitalisation in teacher training

Contact persons: Dr Jana Herding, Jana Löwen