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Educational Science with a Focus on Anthropology, History and Philosophy

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Audehm, Prof. Dr. Jutta Ecarius, PD Dr. Wolfgang Gippert, Prof. Dr. Till Kössler, Prof. Dr. Stefan Neubert, Prof. Dr. Ursula Stenger, Prof. Dr. Jörg Zirfas


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The research focus theoretically and historically investigates basic concepts and basic models (e.g., education, upbringing, representations of human beings), basic questions (e.g., the relationship between theory and practice, institutional frameworks of pedagogical relations, constructions of difference and otherness) as well as methodological approaches (e.g, hermeneutics, phenomenology, qualitative research) in educational and social sciences. These studies have a reconstructive, critical as well as innovative character. They aim at a historical-theoretical classification with the goal to provide a pedagogical critique of the possibilities and limits of »what works« and »what matters« as well as the development of new perspectives for education and teaching.

 

Key questions

  • Historical and contemporary pedagogical conceptions of human beings and their ways of interpretation, orientation, practice and legitimation
  • Adequate versions of basic concepts of educational science for the understanding, interpretation, critique and change of pedagogical realities
  • Teaching methodology and empirical research on teaching and learning
  • Social and cultural contexts of and for educational processes
  • Relationship between the epistemic vocabulary of educational and social sciences and the constitution and ordering of their educational and social topics and subjects

 

Selected publications

  • Ecarius, J./Schierbaum, A. (ed.) (2021): Handbook Family. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Kleinau, E./Opitz, C. (eds.) (1996): History of girls' and women's education. Vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Vol. 2: From the Vormärz to the Present. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus.
  • Kricke, M./Neubert, S. (Eds.) (2020): New Studies in Deweyan Education. Democracy and Education Revisited. New York/London: Routledge.
  • Wulf, Ch./Zirfas, J. (Eds.) (2014): Handbook of educational anthropology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

 

Selected research projects

  • On the analytical potential of qualitative longitudinal interviews in the context of empirical socialisation research (2019-2022). Directed by Kathrin Audehm, in cooperation with Michael Corsten and Holger Herma, Hildesheim, funded by the DFG.
  • Pedagogy and Vulnerability (since 2015, ongoing). Directed by Markus Dederich & Jörg Zirfas.
  • »Occupation children« in post-war Germany – Educational and Differential Experiences (2015-2018). Directed by Elke Kleinau, funded by the DFG.