Research Profile

The research aims to identify conditions and barriers in educational institutions, practices and discourses that promote unequal participation on the basis of differences. Mechanisms of the production of difference and inequality are researched in order to generate possibilities for the design of inclusive and diversity-sensitive educational spaces on an individual and structural level for the transfer of knowledge.

Phenomena of violence and discrimination are researched in (in)formal and institutional educational contexts. Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the analysis of different forms of violence (e.g. physical, psychological, sexualised, institutionalised, structural, epistemic, symbolic violence) are taken up and further developed, and the relational relationship between violence and discrimination (e.g. sexism, racism, linguism, classism, ableism, adultism) is examined.

Professionalisation research in the teaching profession focuses on the analysis of teaching processes and subjective theories using professional biographical and structural theoretical approaches. On the learning side, research is conducted into which competences are required, developed and promoted and how learning success can be measured. This is at the centre of didactic learning research.

Digital transformation and situationally adaptive media use require differentiated communication cultures and socio-ethical reflections. Theoretical concepts, empirical analyses and practical perspectives are adapted for sustainable media education, with special consideration of artificial intelligence and algorithms. Two things are at the centre of this: on the one hand, the integration of different learning techniques and social diversity and, on the other, the promotion of design, knowledge and personal skills (digital empowerment).