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Didaktik in schulischen und vorschulischen Rehabilitationsfeldern
Understanding the body. Empowering people. Enabling education. Ensuring participation.
The Chair of Didactics and Digitalization in Physical and Motor Development focuses on the design of inclusive, equitable, and professionally responsible educational processes from an educational science, special education, and socio-critical perspective. The focus is on people with physical and complex disabilities as well as chronic somatic illnesses.
The starting point is an understanding of education as a relational process that is embedded in social power relations, cultural norms, and structural barriers—but at the same time remains pedagogically malleable. The body is viewed not only from a medical perspective, but also from a social and physical perspective, and is understood as a symbolically framed vehicle for educational processes. Reflection on body-related educational realities forms a consistent point of reference in research and teaching.
A central guiding concept is the pedagogy of enabling. It describes a professional practice focused on relationships and perception that is not reduced to diagnosis and control, but takes seriously the subjective forms of expression, physicalities, and attributions of meaning of people with disabilities. In the spirit of a recognition-based attitude, it aims to break down barriers and open up access – especially where participation has been structurally restricted or education systematically excluded. Education is understood as an opportunity – not as a demand for conformity.
The chair focuses on developing and researching didactic concepts in the context of physical and complex disabilities, ethically grounded examination of concepts of care and responsibility, and designing and analyzing digital access to education and participation. Other research focuses include the analysis of democracy education processes, structural educational inequality, intersectional disadvantages, and pedagogical challenges in the context of illness and care.
The chair's university teaching is interdisciplinary in nature and combines educational science fundamentals with profession-related, practical qualifications. It addresses in particular the professional training of teachers in the area of physical and motor development and is oriented toward issues related to inclusive education, medicine, ethics, social law, and digitality. Research-oriented formats (including in the practical semester), reflective diagnostics, body- and care-related topics, and approaches to digital participation are just as integral to this as interdisciplinary teaching projects and collaborations with fields of practice.
The chair sees itself as a place where education, the body, disability, and society are considered together from a differentiated, inclusivity-oriented, and human rights-based perspective—with the aim of designing educational processes in such a way that they are not only accessible but also effective, appreciative, and sustainably promote participation.