Research projects

Children_Art_Spaces

Project management
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Stutz Duration
09/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
283 000 €

In cooperation with the Bundesverband Bildender Künstler*innen (BBK e.V. - Federal Association of Visual Artists), the University of Erfurt and the SPI Foundation are developing a qualification model for professional artists that will be scientifically monitored and evaluated. The focus of the further education is on imparting knowledge about the educational significance of artistic processes for children, especially in situations of transition.

Denomination - Education - Politics

Project management
Prof. Dr. Michael Gabel Duration
09/2012 - 09/2017 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €

Michael Gabel: The BMBF-funded project is a fundamental investigation in the field of cultural education for about 40 locations of student communities (KSG and ESG) in Eastern Germany. On the basis of the research results to be published, this will open up a wide range of scientific projects for universities, colleges, social science institutions and institutions of political education: in the fields of politics, (contemporary) history, education, sociology, philosophy, theology, law, ethics and…

FUM – Fachfremd unterrichtende Mathematiklehrkräfte langfristig kompetenzorientiert unterstützen (supporting non-specialist maths teachers in the long term in a skills-orientated way)

Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike Hahn Duration
01/2024 - 06/2026 Funding
Several donors
377 000 €

Based on extensive analyses of needs, target groups and tasks, this project aims to develop specific support materials for teachers of non-specialist subjects to help them design lessons and diagnose the learning status of pupils in the subject of mathematics in grades 5/6 and 7/8 for mainstream schools. The project is aimed at teachers who have acquired a teaching qualification for two subjects (first and second state examinations) without the subject of mathematics, but who teach mathematics…

From GDR Homeland Studies to Social Studies. Primary school before and after 1989

Project management
Prof. Dr. Sandra Tänzer Duration
01/2019 - 09/2025

Subproject in the research network "Dictatorship Experience and Transformation". The average age of teachers at Thuringian schools is around 50. A large number of the primary school teachers working in Thuringia today were educated in the GDR and personally experienced the social upheaval of 1989/1990. They witnessed the change in educational policy and the transformation of the subject of local history from an ethos to a subject, which is now called local history in Thuringian primary schools.…

Generic and Subject Specific Professional Competence and Performance Measures of Teachers for General Studies

Project management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernadette Gold Duration
01/2019 - 12/2022 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
196 478 €

The requested study is intended to examine the connection between professional knowledge and professional perception with regard to two important dimensions of teaching, classroom management and learning support, with the quality of classroom management and learning support, with the learning progress of pupils and with the assessment of pupils, using 60 primary school teachers and their respective classes.

How collective contexts influence creative action on different cultural fields

Duration
09/2016 - 08/2017 :
1 416 000 €

Bjorn Schiermer-Andersen: My project focusses on how collective contexts influence creative action on different cultural fields: 1) It investigates the guidance provided by the 'object' in creative action; 2) It investigates the effect of the collective context upon this relation (to the object); 3) It investigates and compares this interplay on three different cultural fields: music, religion and academia.

Implementation and Evaluation of a Learning Workshop at the University of Erfurt

Project management
Several Duration
01/2016 - 06/2019 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
489 000 €

The guiding question of the project is: How can the learning workshop (Lernwerkstatt) approach be integrated curricularly and didactically into the teacher training programme of the University of Erfurt, and what effects does the learning workshop didactics have on professionalisation processes in the first phase of teacher training?

InklusiBuS - Inclusive Vocational Training and Situation Definition

Project management
Several Duration
11/2017 - 10/2020 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
390 000 €

Teaching-learning processes represent action situations that depend on the actors involved having a comparable understanding of them, in other words defining situations in a comparable way. With regard to inclusive teaching-learning settings, the particular challenge here is that the more heterogeneous the groups are, the more disparate the life worlds - against whose background situation definitions of the participants are made - are. If it is still relatively easy in homogeneous groups to…

JITSUVAX. Jiu-jitsu with misinformation in the age of COVID: Using refutation-based learning to enhance vaccine uptake and knowledge among healthcare professionals and the public.

Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
04/2021 - 03/2025 Funding
Horizon 2020 (EU):
747 584 €

Vaccine hesitancy—the delay or refusal of vaccination without medical indication—has been cited as a serious threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO), attributing it to misinformation on the internet. The WHO has also identified Health Care Professionals (HCPs) as the most trusted influencers of vaccination decisions. JITSUVAX leverages those insights to turn toxic misinformation into a potential asset.

Research Campus Digital Teacher Education

Project management
Prof. Dr. Gerd Mannhaupt Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024 Funding
Several donors
1 330 400 €

With the project "Research Campus Digital Teacher Education", the University of Erfurt is helping to shape the digital change in education, because the key to the success of digitisation in education lies, among other things, in the comprehensive training of teachers.

Research Laboratory MasterMind

Project management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernadette Gold Duration
07/2016 - 07/2019 Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF):
500 000 €

The professionalisation of teachers requires a self-critical and evaluative attitude towards their own patterns of action and professional work routines. This is the only way that teachers can repeatedly review their own actions and weigh up improvements during their many years in the profession. The objectives of the "MasterMind Research Laboratory" are therefore to provide research-methodological support for the Master's thesis in teaching and to promote a research-oriented attitude among…

Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training

Project management
Prof. Dr. Ulf Sauerbrey Duration
06/2024 - 05/2025 Funding
eTeach-Netzwerk Thüringen:
62 000 €

The cooperative eTeach impulse project ‘Situated learning in social virtual reality in teacher training’ between the TU Ilmenau and the University of Erfurt is affiliated to the eduroom media education workshop. Closely linked to the eduroom's conceptual orientation of providing educational spaces to promote media and digitality-related skills, the aim of the eTeach impulse project is to create realistic practice scenarios in the virtual classroom for student teachers based on virtual reality…

Subproject UniSchulPlattform

Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024

Sub-project in the project "Forschungscampus digitale Lehrer*innenbildung". The UniSchoolPlatform is an experimental learning platform for students and university lecturers as well as pupils and teachers at partner schools of the University of Erfurt.

Subproject: Video.LinK

Project management
Several Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024

Sub-project of the project"Forschungscampus digitale Lehrer*innenbildung". The aim of the project Video.LinK (Videos in Teacher Education - Teacher Education Phases in Cooperation) is to promote subject-specific and pedagogical-psychological competences in prospective teachers in the context of a digital video-based learning environment and in cooperation with the second phase of teacher education.

TAM - Tablets and Apps in Mathematics Education

Project management
(apl.) Prof. Dr. Heike Hahn Duration
01/2019 - 12/2019 Funding
Several donors
40 000 €

The aim of the teaching innovation is to further develop the content and concept of a compulsory module in the teaching-focused master's programme in such a way that students are enabled to use tablets and apps in mathematics lessons in a targeted and comprehension-supporting way.

Teacher assessments and feedback for learners with a migrant background

Project management
Dr. Helene Zeeb Duration
08/2022 - 08/2024 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
28 000 €

This research project will examine the extent to which teachers' assessments and feedback differ depending on whether they are dealing with students with or without a migration background. It will also examine the extent to which such assessments are related to teachers' explicit and implicit attitudes.

Teilprojekt: DigiLernLab / eduroom

Project management
Several Duration
01/2020 - 12/2024

Subproject of the projekt "Forschungscampus digitale Lehrer*innenbildung". In the DigiLernLab project, a workspace (the eduroom) will be designed and equipped with digital devices to facilitate the acquisition of subject-specific, subject-didactic and technological-informational as well as media-didactic competences by students. At the same time, the room will also serve to promote digital higher education didactic competences among teachers. The DigiLernLab will also facilitate empirical…

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