Primary and Elementary Education (phased out)

The bachelor's degree course at the University of Erfurt comprises a major and a minor subject (two-subject bachelor's degree) as well as the fundamental course of study. It aims to impart specialist content and occupational field orientation as well as interdisciplinary skills. The standard period of study is six semesters.

Orientation Phase (First Year)

• Introduction to the pedagogy of childhood: childhood and being a child / basics of empirical childhood research
• psychological foundations of learning, teaching and child development
• Fachwissenschaft Deutsch: Language system and language usage/basic questions of literary communication
• Mathematics: Arithmetic and algebraic basic concepts/geometry
• Basics of the subjects German, mathematics and subject teaching (local and general knowledge)
• Introduction to the didactics of German and mathematics / basics of the didactics of subject teaching

• if necessary, foundation of school garden or technical communication and technical drawing

Qualification Phase (Second/Third Year)

• Teaching and learning in primary school
• Didactics and Methodology of Mathematical Learning Processes in Primary School/ Consolidation of German Didactics
• Educational worlds of children in pre-school/out-of-school contexts
• Literary, aesthetic and written language education at pre-school age/out-of-school

Specialist knowledge for the fourth subject is acquired with the minor course.

The course of study is concluded with a Bachelor's thesis.

The variant "Primary School" and the variant "Pre- and Extracurricular Education" differ in the scope of the modules.

Two-Subject-Bachelor

The major and minor subjects differ in terms of the content and scope of the course. In the major subject a Bachelor thesis is written.

Examinations regulations major Primary und Elementary Education 2012

After the Bachelor at the University of Erfurt

Master of Education Primary Schools