Institute of Educational Sciences
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior professorship for Digital Teaching and Learning
- Junior professorship for Educational Sciences, in particular Education with Digital Media
- Professorship for Educational Research, in particular Emperical Educational Scienes
- Professorship for Educational Science, in particular Educational Management and Quality Development
- Professorship for Teacher Education and School Development
- Professorship of primary school pedagogic
Organisation profile
In our research and teaching, we focus on prerequisites, processes and effects of education, especially in the area of teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools.
In teacher education, we are responsible for pre-service teachers‘ acquisition of pedagogical knowledge in the area of teaching, diagnostics, upbringing and innovation. Throughout the entire Bachelor's and Master's program, we provide students with a competence-, research- and practice-oriented education.
Main research areas
Research Activities
Educational Science, in particular Educational Management and Quality Development
Educational Sciences, in particular Education with Digital Media
Digital Teaching and Learning
Educational Research, in particular Emperical Educational Scienes
Primary school pedagogic
Teacher Education and School Development
JIB-Evaluation: Evaluation des Transferzirkels "Jede(r) ist besonders"
Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic) & Müller, U. B. (Project staff)
01.06.17 → 30.11.20
Project: Research
Eva-Prim: Evaluation im Primarbereich: Sprachförderung in alltäglichen und fachlichen Kontexten
Merkert, A. (Project staff), Rank, A. (Project manager, academic) & Krauss, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.08.18
Project: Research
Evaluationsstudie des Projekts „Medienkompetenzförderung in nordrhein-westfälischen Kindertagesstätten"
Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project staff), Meister, D. (Project manager, academic), Hester, T. (Project staff) & Temps, T. T. (Project staff)
06.06.10 → 30.06.11
Project: Research
Expertise "Aufklärung Kinder und Werbung" bzgl. der Förderung der Werbekompetenzförderung von Kindern
Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project staff), Kröger, S. (Project staff), Sander, U. (Project manager, academic) & Meister, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 31.12.12
Project: Research
Förderung des subjektiven Wohlbefindens in Schulen durch Gamification
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Tolks, D. (Project staff) & Thiele, A. (Project staff)
01.09.19 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Förderung psychischer Gesundheit an Schulen (Mindmatters 3)
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic) & Nieskens, B. (Coordination)
01.01.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
NEPS-Mathematik: Forschungskooperation Leuphana-IPN Kiel zur Untersuchung der Äquivalenz mathematischer Kompetenzmessungen in TIMSS, den länderübergreifenden Bildungsstandards und dem Nationalen Bildungspanel (NEPS) an einer Stichprobe von SINUS-Schulen
Ehmke, T. (Project manager, academic), Köller, O. (Project manager, academic) & Nissen, A. (Project staff)
01.05.11 → 12.03.15
Project: Research
GenAI-Natives: GenAI-Natives - Educating (the next generation of) teachers on usage of generative artificial intelligence
Mah, D.-K. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.25 → 30.06.27
Project: Teaching
Gesundheitsmanagement
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic)
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Inneres und Sport
08.06.07 → 04.02.14
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
GHR 300. Entwicklung und Konzeption des 4-semestrigen Masterstudiengangs Lehramt an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen.
Dietrich, C. (Project manager, academic), Landwehr, B. (Project manager, academic) & Beckmann, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → 30.11.14
Project: Teaching
Grundschule voraus - gemeinsam.gestalten.lernen
Pietsch, M. (Project manager, academic), Schellig, H. (Project manager, academic) & Witthöft, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.23 → 31.12.26
Project: Research
HeaLinGO: Health and Language Integrated Gaming Online
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, T. (Project manager, academic), Schiemann, S. (Project manager, academic), Dadaczynski, K. (Project staff), Blume, C. (Project staff), Schmidt, I. (Project staff) & Schmidt, P. R. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
01.06.13 → 31.03.16
Project: Research
HEPCOM: Health Educational Projects Community
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic)
European Commission Directorate-General Health and Consumers
19.02.13 → 18.08.16
Project: Research
Horizonte-Promotionsstipendium II
von Saldern, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → 31.03.16
Project: Other
Horizonte-Stipendien Nds. III
Paulus, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.14 → 31.12.16
Project: Teaching
Humboldt Stipendium
Pietsch, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Individual grant
Informelles Lernen und informelle Bildung für mehr Bildungsgerechtigkeit? Dimensionierungen des Lernens und der Bildung – eine kritische Analyse
Wischmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.12 → …
Project: Research
IBIS: Inklusive Bildung in der Schulpraxis
Letzel-Alt, V. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.24 → 01.02.26
Project: Research
inklusive menschenrechte 2010-2012: Inklusive Pädagogik und Menschenrechtsbildung mit Kindern und Jugendlichen - eine Weiterbildungsreihe für pädagogische Fachkräfte
von Saldern, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.11 → 05.03.13
Project: Transfer (professional training)