Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Science - History of Education

Current topical focus

• Historical education research, especially cultural and social history of pedagogical institutions, professions and discourses
• Institutions and Knowledge Practices in the Pedagogical Field After 1945
• History of (subject) instruction
• Historical Epistemology - History of pedagogical forms of thought and knowledge
• Ethnography of pedagogical practices and arrays
• Theory and methodology of historical and reconstructive-hermeneutical education research, E-Humanities

Current research projects

• Abitur examination practices and respective essays from 1882 to 1972. Knowledge (re)presentation in a historical-practeological pilot project

• Achievement as Paradigm – Towards a History and Theory of a Pedagogical Concept

• "Lesepraktiken und Lese-Subjekte im ‚deutschen Unterricht’ seit 1800.Transformationen schulisch-fachlichen Wissens" (supported project in the "Freiräume" funding line on the promotion of top-level research at HU Berlin)

• Youth Media at School, at Kiosks and in Protest

• "Experiences of the Best" – The Unique Collection of Pedagogical Lectures at the BBF

• Specialised Information Service “Educational Science and Educational Research” (FID)
   

Completed projects

• West German Student Journals From the 1950s and 1960s. Student Journals as Artefacts of Secondary School Cultures (PAUSE)

• Institutional Risk Constellations of Sexual Violence in Family-related Pedagogical Contexts (IRiK)

• Schools in Times of Change (SchiWa)

• Attention. History – Theory – Empiry

• Co-operative Development Partnership of two All-day Primary Schools (KEG)

• Sens of Community and Social Heterogeneity in Entry Classes at Reform-Oriented Secondary Schools (GemSe)

• Recognition Relationships in Urban Primary Schools (AnuG)

• Ideas, Actors, Knowledge – Comprehensive School in the State of Hesse