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

  1. The role of openness to experience in innovating teaching and instruction through leader-member exchange and teacher creativity

    Adams, D., Bellibaş, M. Ş., Muniandy, V. & Pietsch, M., 01.09.2025, In: Thinking Skills and Creativity. 57, 16 p., 101834.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Perspectives of academic staff on artificial intelligence in higher education: exploring areas of relevance

    Mah, D.-K., Knoth, N. & Egloffstein, M., 26.03.2025, In: Frontiers in Education. 10, 13 p., 1484904.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Entwicklung eines fachdidaktischen Kategoriensystems zur Analyse des kognitivaktivierenden Potenzials von Aufgaben – ein Beitrag zur Unterrichtsqualitätsforschung in der beruflichen Fachrichtung Pflege

    Wesselborg, B., Weyland, U. & Kleinknecht, M., 23.09.2019, Jahrbuch der berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogischen Forschung 2019. Wittmann, E., Frommberger, D. & Weyland, U. (eds.). Verlag Babara Budrich, p. 75-92 18 p. (Schriftenreihe der Sektion Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE); vol. 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  4. Analyse des kognitiven Potenzials von Aufgaben in der beruflichen Fachrichtung Pflege: Entwicklung und Erprobung eines fachdidaktischen Kategoriensystems

    Wesselborg, B., Kleinknecht, M., Bögemann-Grossheim, E. & Hoenen, M., 17.06.2022, Professionalisierung der Gesundheitsberufe: berufliche und hochschulische Bildung im Spiegel aktueller Forschung . Weyland, U. & Reiber, K. (eds.). Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Franz Steiner Verlag, p. 321-348 28 p. (Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - Beihefte; vol. 33).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  5. Investigating the situational impact of academic language demands on university students’ boredom with an instructional video

    Wirth, L., Aydin, B., Ehmke, T., Retelsdorf, J. & Kuhl, P., 10.03.2025, In: European Journal of Psychology of Education. 40, 1, 22 p., 50.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Revealing Entrepreneurial Acting and Thinking Among School Leaders in the K-12 Setting – A Scoping Review

    Frentz, J., Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, S., Bellibas, M. Ş., Pashiardis, P. & Pietsch, M., 03.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Leadership and Policy in Schools. 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Schulleitung und schulinterne Steuerung

    Pietsch, M., Tulowitzki, P. & Krein, U., 01.2025, Studienbuch Bildungswissenschaften 2: Unterricht und Schule gestalten . Syring, M., Bohl, T., Gröschner, A. & Scheunpflug, A. (eds.). Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, p. 279-294 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  8. Innovative approaches in mathematical modeling: Harnessing technology for teaching second degree equations to Future Mathematics Educators in Türkiye

    Kandemir, M. A. & Eryilmaz, N., 01.01.2025, In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 11, 17 p., 101281.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review