Dr. Niels C. Uhlendorf
Primary School Pedagogy, Research Associate (Post-Doc)
Contact
Postal Address:
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Allgemeine Grundschulpädagogik
Niels Uhlendorf
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
E-Mail: niels.uhlendorf(at)hu-berlin.de
Research Topics:
- multiprofessional cooperation in schools
- school social work
- care and education
- shaming in schools
- doing difference (gender, class, race)
- socialisation and education, subjectivation
- qualitative research methods
Biography
- since 2019: Research Associate (Post-Doc) at Humboldt University of Berlin (Primary School Pedagogy)
- Paternal leave: 11/2021-04/2022
- 2017-2019: Research Associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Institute of Educational Sciences)
- 2015-2016: PhD-Scholarship (University of Hamburg)
- 2012-2015: Research Associate at the University of Hamburg (Research Project: Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies, Heads of Project: Prof. Dr. Vera King, Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, funded by VolkswagenStiftung)
- 2005-2012: Magister Artium (similar to Master of Arts) at the University of Trier: Sociology, English Studies, German Studies
- Stays abroad: Uruguay (Internship at Goethe Institute, Montevideo, 03-06/2012), USA (Internship and Adjunct Instructor for German as a Foreign Language at Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, 01-05 & 09-12/2009)
Publications
Books
- Dietrich, C./Uhlendorf, N./Windheuser, J. (Eds.) (2024): Sorge - Bildung - Erziehung. [En: Care - Bildung - Education]. Weilerswist-Metternich: Velbrück.
- Mayer, T./Jenßen, L./Töpper, D./Uhlendorf, N. (eds. 2024): Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2024. [En.: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Educational Research 2024]. Berlin: Berlin UP.
- Jenßen, L./Töpper, D./Uhlendorf, N. (Hrsg.) (2023): Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2023. [En.: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Educational Research 2023]. Berlin: Berlin UP.
- Kollender, E./Kourabas, V./Uhlendorf, N. (Hrsg.) (2022): Ökonomisierungsprozesse im Diskursfeld Flucht/Migration und Bildung. Ein- und Ausschlüsse zwischen Persistenz und Veränderung. [En.: Processes of Economization in the discursive field of flight/migration and education. Inclusions and exclusions between persistence and change]. Schwerpunktheft der Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 2/2022
- Dietrich, C./Uhlendorf, N./Beiler, F./Sanders, O. (Hrsg.) (2020): Anthropologien der Sorge im Pädagogischen. [En.: Anthropologies of Care in Pedagogy]. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
- Uhlendorf, N. (2018): Optimierungsdruck im Kontext von Migration. Eine diskurs- und biographieanalytische Untersuchung zu Subjektivationsprozessen. [En.: Optimization pressure in the context of migration. A discourse- and biography-analytical study on processes of subjectivation]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-22918-4
Articles in English
*=Peer Review (double blind)
- * Uhlendorf, N. (2023): Discursive Constructions of Boys in the Field of School Social Work in German Elementary Schools. Boyhood Studies, 16 (2), 92-108
- * Benzel, S./Uhlendorf, N. (2022): Upward Social Mobility through Education in German-Iranian Biographies. A Psychosocial Perspective on Intergenerational Dynamics during Adolescence. Gesellschaft - Individuum - Sozialisation. Zeitschrift für Sozialisationsforschung, 1/2022. DOI: 10.26043/GISo.2022.5.2
- * Uhlendorf, N. (2020): The Functions of Master and Counter Narratives in Biographical Interviews: Self-positionings of German-Iranians in Relation to Discourses on Self-Optimization and Migration. In: Lueg, K./Lundholt, M. W. (Eds.): Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. London: Routledge, 175-186
- * Uhlendorf, N. (2019): "You’re not enough until you’re too much": Immigrant university students dealing with contradictory demands of self-optimization. Das Hochschulwesen, 4+5/2019, S. 121-127
- King, V./Schreiber, J./Uhlendorf, N./Gerisch, B. (2019): Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct – Transformations in Relations to the Self, to Others and Caring. In: King, V./Gerisch, B./Rosa, H. (Eds.): ‚Lost in Perfection‘. Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. London: Routledge, 61-72.
Presentations
International Conferences
- Uhlendorf, N./Benzel, S. (2021): „Biographical experiences of parental engagement with education among Iranian refugees in Germany”, IMISCOE Conference 2021, Luxembourg/Online
- Uhlendorf, N. (2021): „Optimisation pressure in the context of migration”, Spring School ‘Cultural Identities and language maintenance: Comparing Hispanic and Iranian Communities in the US and Germany’, 19. April 2021, Universität zu Köln/Online
- Uhlendorf, N. (2019): „Pressure of self-optimization in the context of migration“, Conference of the European Sociological Association Network on Sociology of Migration – Theme “Biographies, Belongings, Borders”, 24.-25. Januar 2019, University of Strasbourg
- Uhlendorf, N. (2021): „Interpellations of (non-)visibility: Demands of inconspicuous self-optimization for immigrants“, 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics, 6.-8. September 2018, Budapest
- Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Pressure of self-optimization in the context of migration”, 2nd International Conference of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas Research Network, 23.-25. Juli 2018, HU Berlin
- Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Demands of self-optimization in the context of migration: Discourses and biographical self-constructions“, IMISCOE Conference, 2.-4. Juli 2018, Barcelona
- Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Media representations of self-optimization in the context of migration and their appropriations in biographical narratives”, 18. Internationale Migrationskonferenz, 21.-23. Juni 2018, Technische Hochschule Köln
- Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Anti-muslim racism in the context of neoliberal ideologies of competition: Challenges for Adult Education”, 4. ESREA-Konferenz 2018, University of Edinburgh
- Uhlendorf, N. (2017): „Becoming the perfect immigrants: Discourses of self-optimisation in the context of immigration and its implications on subjections”, DiscourseNet Conference, Juni 2017, Warwick University, Coventry (UK)