New Appointment at the University
On November 1, 2022, a new junior professor was appointed at the university by the president - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gross will head the junior professorship "Educational Science with a Focus on Intercultural Education"
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gross received the certificate of appointment from the hands of the president Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier. Photo: Jacob Müller
Since November 1, 2022, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gross has been heading the junior professorship "Educational Science with a focus on Intercultural Education" at the Faculty of Humanities at Chemnitz University of Technology. The appointment was made by the President of Chemnitz University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier.
About the person: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gross
Barbara Gross graduated with honors from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) in 2011 with a master's degree in Educational Science for the Primary Level. She later taught in German- and Italian-language elementary schools and worked in adult education. She went on to conduct research and teach at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she obtained her PhD in General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, and General Didactics in 2018. As part of her doctoral studies, she spent time abroad at Birkbeck, University of London (UK). In 2018 she took up a junior professorship in General and Intercultural Pedagogy, also in Bozen-Bolzano. During this time, she completed another stay abroad at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and took up teaching positions at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Roma (Italy), before the appointment as junior professor at Chemnitz University of Technology followed.
At Chemnitz University of Technology, Gross would like to shape and further develop teaching and research in the field of intercultural education with a view to internationalization. In terms of teaching, she intends to test innovative methods in university teaching with colleagues from the Institute for Education at the Faculty of Humanities and to initiate joint projects between the university and educational practice that open up practice-oriented and diversity-sensitive perspectives for students and prepare learners for the increasing heterogeneity in educational institutions and society. Gross would like to expand her research focus at Chemnitz University of Technology in the areas of linguistic and cultural diversity in migration societies, as well as educational (in)justice with intersectionality in mind, particularly with regard to local and regional structures and circumstances. She intends to bring the annual international conference of the "International Association of Intercultural Education (IAIE)" to Chemnitz University of Technology in 2024, making a significant contribution to Chemnitz's Capital of Culture Year 2025.
(Translation: Brent Benofsky)
Matthias Fejes
07.11.2022
