Supervisors
High-quality supervision is essential to a sound doctoral education. As supervisors at the Doctoral School in Education, we provide you with the guidance and support you need to successfully complete your research project. All supervisors have extensive experience in supervising doctoral projects and regularly exchange ideas to continuously develop the quality of supervision. We welcome you to contact your (future) supervisors to discuss your research ideas and research projects.
The research areas of the supervisors are:
- Comparative and International Education
Barbara Schulte
Research Focus: Education as national and global instrument of governance – including: deregulation, privatization, and marketization of education; PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) as policy tool, Education in developing contexts – in particular, South-South cooperation and China’s engagement in Africa, Education, innovation and new technologies – including the use of ICT4E (information and communication technologies for education) in impoverished/disadvantaged areas, Education, migration and ethnic minorities, with regional focus on Southwest China
more - Developmental and Educational Psychology in School Age
Marko Lüftenegger
Research focus: Evaluation of educational measures as well as the development and promotion of motivation and emotions in educational contexts and the development and evaluation of measures
more - Didactics of Geography and economic education
Christiane Hintermann
Research Focus: Theory of the didactics of the subject GW, Content-related and methodological innovations in the didactics of the subject, Textbook analysis, Migration and diversity in the teaching of GW
more - Didactics of History
Georg Marschnig
Research Focus: Places, Practices and Media of Historical Culture, Language sensitivity in historical-political learning, Theory and practice of history teaching, Remembrance, Memory, Commemoration, Contemporary history and political education
more - Didactics of Mathematics
- Johann Humenberger
Research Focus: Didactics of mathematics, especially: Mathematics as a process, applications in mathematics education, Problem solving (heuristics), Elementary mathematics (especially geometry and stochastics)
more - Stefan Götz
Research Focus: Didactics of Mathematics and Elementary Mathematics
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- Johann Humenberger
- Didactics of Natural Sciences
- Anja Lembens
Research Focus: Development of an appropriate understanding of science (Scientific Literacy), Nature of Science / Nature of Science (NOS), Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning, Competency Based Teaching and Learning
more - Martin Hopf
Research Focus: Didactics of physics, Effectiveness of learning environments, Learning processes in the field of mechanics, Conceptual change in teachers
more - Andrea Möller
Research Focus: Didactics of Biology
more - Claudia Maria Angele
Research Focus: Nutrition Sciences with special emphasis on the Didactics
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- Anja Lembens
- Didactics of Political Education
Dirk Lange
Research Focus: Civic awareness, Democracy education, Inclusive citizenship, Migration policy education, Political education research, Historical-political education
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Britta Breser
Research Focus: Democracy education, Political education research & social transformation, Historical-political education, Aesthetic education, European political education, Educational ethics, Teacher education
More - Didactics of Religion
Martin Rothgangel
Research Focus: Religious Educational Research on anti-Semitism, Religious Educational Research on Theology and Science, Philosophy of Science in Religious Education, Empirical Research in Religious Education, Theory of Subject Didactics, Research Design in Subject Didactics and Religious Didactics
more - Educational Research and Theory
Henning Schluß
Research Focus: Pedagogy in the Anthropocene, on pedagogy in the GDR (with a long-term project on historical teaching records), and on the relationship of religion and theology to pedagogy.
more - Educational Science
Evi Agostini
Research Focus: Learning and Teaching Research, Responsive School Development, Aesthetic Education, Pedagogical Ethos, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
more - Educational Technology
- Fares Kayali
Research Focus: Participative Design and Human-Computer Interaction in the context of education, Game-based Learning and Gamification, Technology-based teaching and learning, Digitisation in education, Motivational enhancement and technology-enhanced learning
more - Renate Motschnig
Research Focus: Didactics and Entertainment Computing
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- Fares Kayali
- Education and Inequality
Veronika Wöhrer
Research Focus: Intersectional analysis of inequality in educational institutions, Gender studies, qualitative methods, participatory methods
more - Empirical Education Research
Judith Schoonenboom
Research Focus: Designing education and social science empirical research in which various methods are combined (mixed methods research), foundations of mixed methods research.
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Dominik Fröhlich
Research Focus: I deal with questions of research methods (mixed methods, social network analysis), learning in the context of work (e.g. informal learning or careers) and didactic formats (such as service learning or research-based learning).
more - Foundations of Education
Daniel Tröhler
Research Focus: Historical and comparative analysis of educational language, Nation building and curriculum: The cultural construction of school subjects, Epistemology and knowledge, History and historiography of education, Globalization and Globalization theories in education
more - Gender Studies
Sabine Grenz
Research Focus: Qualitative empirical methodology (especially discourse analysis), Gender methodology and epistemology, Gender, diversity and intersectionality, Gender, secularism and religion, Gender and sexuality/sexualities (especially in connection with commercial sexuality), Historical perspectives on gender constructions, Institutionalisation and history of Gender Studies
more - Inclusive Education
- Helga Fasching
Research Focus:Inclusive Education, Transition between school and work, Job related participation, Educational and vocational inequality research, Systemic counselling and therapy concepts, Qualitative research methods, Participative research
More - Susanne Schwab
Research Focus: Professions research in the context of inclusive school development, social participation and inclusion; research on education and schooling in the context of diversity and social inequality; evaluation of language support measures (e.g. German support classes)
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- Helga Fasching
- Language Education
- Eva Vetter
Research Focus: Multilingualism, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Teaching and Learning Research, Language Contact and Conflict Research, Francophonie
more - Stefan Krammer
Research Focus: German literature (19th to 21st century),Didactics of literature and media, Rhetoric, semiotics, deconstruction, Drama and theatre theory, Politics and literature, Gender (especially masculinity research)
more - Hannes Schweiger
Research Focus: Culture-reflexive teaching and learning, Didactics of literature and literary learning in DaF*Daz, Teaching of literature, Linguistic education in school, Science propaedeutics in school (pre-scientific work), Education of criticizing racism, Cultural transfer relations, Literature and migration
more - Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Research Focus: English as a language of teaching and learning in schools and universities
more - Julia Hüttner
Research Focus: educational approaches where English is used as a medium of instruction for non-language subjects, with a specific interest in disciplinary language / literacy; teacher cognition and development
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- Eva Vetter
- Media Education
Christian Swertz
Research Focus: Media and the Formation of the Person, Critical Media Literacy, Technology Enhanced Learning and E-Learning, Video Games
more - Psychoanalysis and Education
Wilfried Datler
Research Focus: Topics and issues in the borderline and overlapping area of psychoanalysis, pedagogy and psychotherapy (psychoanalytic pedagogy; psychoanalysis and education) including the consideration of different ages and institutional contexts; emotions and their significance in pedagogical processes; relationship between theory and practice as well as training and professionalization.
more - School Pedagogy
Nele Kampa
Research Focus: Abilities in science and mathematics, Heterogeneity, Teaching quality in heterogeneous settings, abilities and outcomes in upper secondary education, profession research
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