Further Projects in Educational Research

We collaborate widely, using both inter- and transdisciplinary approaches Internationally, our partners include Roberta Bosisio, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy; Samuel Greiff, Université du Luxembourg; Leena Hanpää, Turku Institute for Child and Youth Research, Finland; Bernardo Hernandez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain; M. Carmen Hidalgo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain; Jan Plass, New York University, USA; Gerhard Sonnert, Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics, USA. In Germany, our partners include Peter Bell, FAU; Markus Bühner, LMU München; Tobias Chilla, FAU; Olaf Köller, IPN Kiel; Johannes Hasselhorn, Musikhochschule Lübeck; Benjamin Joerissen, FAU; Andreas C. Lehmann, Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg; Detlev Leutner, Universität Duisburg-Essen; Manfred Pirner, FAU; Jörn Sparfeldt, Universität des Saarlandes.

We publish our results in national as well as in international, peer-reviewed, journals, including Intelligence, Social Science Computer Review, Metacognition and Learning, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Diagnostica, and others.

Recent Research Projects

Category: Further Projects, Research

Many women in Germany are single parents, unemployed and without a well-founded professional qualification. How can their quality of life be improved, and at the same time, their professional integration achieved? How can they get involved in processes of empowerment?
In a design-based research (DBR) project, we are evaluating and accompanying an intervention aimed at this target group, sponsored by the European Social Fund (ESF)...

Category: Aktuelle Projekte, Further Projects, Research

How do religious or ideological orientations of teachers affect their professional thinking and acting?
There is a serious research deficit regarding this question, especially in Europe and Germany.
Therefore, we follow the question of how the religiosity of teachers affects their professional tasks - whether as a supporting resource or as a problematic disruptive factor.
To pursue this question, we – building up on pilot studies for the development of suitable scales –take an exemplary look on the focus on religiosity and the religious beliefs in a greater invested study with teachers and investigate their connections with professional convictions.

Recent Publications on Further Projects