Research
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
- Educational Myths About the GDR (MythErz) (BMBF)
- Schools in Times of Change(SchiWa) (DFG)
- History of DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
- Transformation of the Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung (JHB) into an Open Access Journal (DFG)
- Specialised Information Service “Educational Science and Educational Research” (FID) (DFG)
- Reading practices and writing practices in the German classroom. German-French comparison
Completed projects
- Abitur Examination Practices and Respective Essays From 1882 to 1972
- Achievement as Paradigm – Towards a History and Theory of a Pedagogical Concept
- SoQuZ – Social Data as Sources of Contemporary History
- West German Student Journals From the 1950s and 1960s. Student Journals as Artefacts of Secondary School Cultures (PAUSE)
- IRiK Institutional Risk Constellations of Sexual Violence in Family-related Pedagogical Contexts