Research

Research

The Department of Subject Didactics is well-funded through third-party resources and has produced a number of high-profile research projects since its founding in 2007.

Examples include DFG-funded research on literary-aesthetic comprehension skills, children’s orientation skills in unfamiliar urban spaces, and teachers’ religious and profession-related beliefs; the DFG- and Swiss National Science Foundation–funded project testing an education-theory–based competence model for geographical systems competence; the BMBF-funded project on qualifying geography teachers for inclusive education; and a Mercator Foundation–funded research project on the role of emotions in literary-cultural education.

NebeIn addition to subject-specific research focuses within the individual disciplines, the Department also has several shared research priorities that are pursued and published collaboratively. These include digital media in subject-specific learning processes, cognitive activation in classroom instruction, heterogeneity and inclusion in subject teaching, language in subject-specific learning processes, as well as sustainability and human rights education.