Lehrgebiet Allgemeine Bildungswissenschaft

Chair of General Educational Science

Main topics of the department are current and historical theoretical approaches to education, „Bildung“ in a broader sense and socialisation. Within this general context we focus on the following topics: the comparison and critical reflection of different theoretical approaches concerning education, the analysis of processes underlying the production of knowledge in educational science and the convergence of theoretical perspectives and empirical findings.

Hence, the consideration of different academic traditions and the link between empirical and theoretical approaches are in the center of our attention regarding various research areas of pedagogics such as childhood and youth studies, biography research, science research and profession research.

Our principles reverberate in our teaching: We encourage our students to critically reflect these topics, research fields and – last but not least – their own pedagogical action as we understand this to be a prerequisite for the further development into professional and concious pedagogues.

We supervise Bachelor- and Mastertheses of the Bachelors Degree Programme B.A. Bildungswissenschaft (B.A. Edcational Science) and the Masters Degree Programme M.A. Bildung und Medien – eEducation (M.A. Education and Media – eEducation).