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Professorship for Educational Sciences
Research Profile

Research Profile of the Professorship

The Professorship for Educational Science covers a wide range in educational research work. Besides systematic and basic theory work, you will find methodological work and research projects in the field of education, biography, and teaching research. In terms of methodology, , the research is mostly interpretative. In this view, teaching processes and narrative interviews are investigated using conversational analysis and structural process analysis respectively. As part of institutional research - as institutional study and teaching research projects on alumni whereabouts - quantitative research methods are used. Current research projects deal with educational processes during careers, interactive procedures of knowledge acquisition in school contexts, and methods for measuring acquired knowledge. Furthermore, the professorship places importance on the support of young researchers.

Current research projects