Bielefeld School of Education - BiSEd

2024

• Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust - (not) a topic for primary school?
• Eliciting pupils' ideas and the subsequent didactic structuring by the teacher
• Pre-concepts on the topic of swimming and sinking from children in second grade
• Preconceptions of pupils in year four on artificial intelligence
• Extracurricular learning in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") in primary school
• Are pupils (intrinsically) more motivated by participating in experiments on the topic of fire?
• Preconcepts of pupils from two second grades on the topic of swimming and sinking
• Preconcepts of primary school pupils in third grade on the topic of "swimming and sinking"
• What prior knowledge do primary 4 pupils have about the formation and characteristics of rainbows?
• How do the school pupils perceive the implementation of children's rights at their school?

2023

• Promoting the participation of school pupils in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")

• Recording the interest, prior knowledge, questions and wishes of children in a 4th grade on the topic of electricity with regard to the conception of a lesson series

• Subjective experiences and personal attitudes of teachers in non-subject-related Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - case study of two teachers

• What prior knowledge and possible misconceptions do pupils in a second grade have on the subject of nature conservation, to what extent does this knowledge come from extracurricular media and how environmentally conscious is the pupils' behaviour?

• Multi-perspectivity in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - ideas of teachers on multi-perspectivity and its challenges

• Associations of school pupils in a fourth grade with the subject of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")

• Attitudes towards extracurricular places of learning and their significance for one's own Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - case study of a primary school teacher

• Study project on the topic of pre-concepts of primary school pupils in a 3rd grade on the origin of human life

• "Interests of boys versus interests of girls?" - Interests of school pupils in the 2nd grade of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") / Natural Sciences

• Attitudes towards the use of inanimate nature experiments in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") from the perspective of teachers

• What ideas do pupils in first and fourth grade have about appointments and to what extent are these shaped by binary gender concepts?

• Digital media in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - A survey in first grade.

• What prior knowledge do second-grade school pupils have about early flowering plants?

• Preconcepts on the topic of electricity. An investigation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")

• Action-orientated learning in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"). A series of lessons on the production of lemon oil

• Preconceptions about the shape and form of planet Earth - What differences between the preconceptions of first and third graders become clear when categorising school pupils' drawings and what consequences does this have for teaching practice?

• Can the measure of freedom of choice be used to sponsor primary school pupils' experience of autonomy in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?

• Those who don't have a choice are spoilt for choice

• Gender differences in the interest of biology curriculum topics from the pupils' perspective

• Teachers' attitudes towards the use of selected live animals in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"))

• The interest of the topics of the biology core curriculum from the pupils' perspective

• Effects of the preconcepts on the experience of competence

2022

• Investigating the professional competence of teachers on the subject of racism in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")

• To what extent are the three basic psychological needs according to Deci and Ryan predictors of the flow experience in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?

• The five-minute biology method

• The introduction of pupils' pre-concepts on the topic of "water" in primary school

• Lesson planning based on the pre-concepts of school pupils in a mixed year 1-2 class on the topic of waste and recycling in primary school

• Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of digital and analogue experimentation

• Teachers' perceptions of political education in primary school lessons

• Attitudes of teachers of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") towards the use of inanimate nature experiments

• "What do you know about vehicles?" Assessing technology-related prior knowledge in primary school Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")

• Research questions in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - How can teachers use (research) questions in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") in a targeted way to stimulate inquiry-based learning in the classroom?

• Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Thermometer") study project - Presentation of the current situation and outlook for a possible innovation
  Research-based learning in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Discovering")

• Cooperative learning as a social form of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - A research project on own teaching practice with regard to cooperative learning

• Report on the study project: Children's prestige perceptions of appointments

• Learning prerequisites of primary school pupils in a second grade on the subject of war and peace.

2021

• Is there an increased motivation to learn when pupils have carried out experiments independently?
• Pre-concepts on the topic of electricity
• How are day and night created? A survey of pre- and post-concepts on the origin of day and night in the second grade
• Dealing with the topic of "National Socialism and the Holocaust" in primary school
• "What prior knowledge or misconceptions do children in fourth grade have about climate change and where does this knowledge come from?"
• Does conducting experiments in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") / Natural Sciences change pupils' ideas about science in a positive way? An investigation using a pre- and post-questionnaire in a 4th primary school class.
• Attitudes towards inclusion and its implementation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Pre-concepts of primary school pupils - On primary school children's ideas about the concept of family
• The complexity of the world - multi-perspectivity in the differentiation matrix
• Teaching materials in sex education lessons. Motives for the selection decisions of primary school teachers.

2020

• Promoting a closeness to nature: Effects of educational software to promote human-environment system knowledge
• Pre-concepts of school pupils in a fourth grade on the topic 'Our solar system'
• What didactic methods do teachers use to develop a place without an educational mission into an extracurricular learning location using the example of the forest?
• What pre-concepts do school pupils in a third grade have on the topic of "Our solar system" and what effects does the survey have on lesson planning?
• Preconceptions about the medieval castle
• The importance of developing pre-concepts on the topic of "family" in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - an analysis based on children's drawings
• Research in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"). A teaching unit on the topic "The federal states of Germany"
• The effects of experiments as an introduction to lessons on pupils' motivation and self-efficacy
• Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") and gender
• The interest of primary school children in fourth grade in current news and the influence of media on their interest formation
• Participation in the class council from the pupils' perspective
• The topic of water in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") in a third class - pre-concepts about the different aggregate states of water

2019

• Analysing the awareness of historicity on the basis of children's drawings
• Preconcepts on the topic of archaeology
• Pre-concepts of healthy eating
• Motivation in activity-orientated Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Pupils' ideas in the field of electricity
• "Learning democracy" in primary school
• The influence of the feminisation of primary school on the topics of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Good Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") and its planning
• Evaluating, assessing and grading
• Pupils' views on extracurricular places of learning in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• How do pupils view the use of media in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?
• The experiences of science teachers with extracurricular places of learning on the topic of forest animals
• How do questions from pupils in a fourth grade change during the chocolate lesson?
• Study project A: Preconcepts for the development of rain in the school entry phase
• Learning at stations compared to group lessons - an investigation using the example of the topic "bats"
• Preconceptions of third-grade schoolchildren on the phenomenon of global warming
• Study project on the survey of pre-concepts in the subject Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") on the topic of swimming and sinking in a first class
• Study project on the topic of "Preconcepts on the formation of rain"
• Profitable use of educational videos in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• To what extent is the collection of pre-concepts in primary school important for teaching? An exemplary study on the topic of swimming and sinking
• Quantitative survey on the possible influence of observation tasks on the recording and reproduction of information from an educational video on the topic of "magnetism" in class 2a
• The topic of arch bridges in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") in a second grade - evaluation of a teaching sequence
• Development of environmental awareness - investigation in a 3rd grade class
• Interests in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• What preconceptions do pupils in a second grade have about the topic of snails with regard to the function of mucus, food and locomotion?
• Preconcepts in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Swimming and sinking in Year 1")
• What factors interest first-grade pupils when experimenting in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?
• Children's preconceptions on the subject of air
• What pre-concepts do pupils have on the topic of combustion and where can these be categorised in the category system for classifying the combustion process according to the current state of research?
• Typical boy - typical girl? Ideas and concepts about gender stereotypes of primary school pupils in year 2
• "What's it actually like with school gardens?" Survey of teachers on their attitudes and willingness to establish a school garden at their school
• Survey and consideration of pupils' previous experiences when planning a teaching unit
• The importance of taking children's prior knowledge into account when designing a skills-orientated series of lessons on the topic of "calendars"
• Performance assessment and evaluation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• The appointment in the imagination of primary school children
• Performance assessment and evaluation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") at primary school
• Pupils' perceptions of acoustic phenomena in a third grade class
• To what extent are technical drawings sufficient to capture pupils' prior knowledge?
• The path of a Bielefeld primary school to internal school lesson plans for the subject "Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")" in the course of the changeover to cross-grade teaching in grades 1-3
• Study project: Awareness of reality as a category of historical awareness in primary school. How is the reality awareness of pupils in grade 4x developed?
• Study project: Investigation of the pre-concepts on the topic of "swimming and sinking" in the first grade of a primary school
• Study project: What prior knowledge and what ideas do children in primary school have about the Middle Ages and what role does the development of historical awareness play in this?
• Study project: What ideas do pupils have about clouds? How should these be taken into account in lessons?
• Study project: The existing competence development of primary school pupils experimenting for the first time in second grade
• Study project: Pupils' prior knowledge of the town of Lübbecke

2018

• Changes in pupils' ideas about the development of butterflies after a teaching unit on butterflies in a class with cross-grade learning
• Third-graders' prior knowledge and ideas about the human skeleton as a starting point for action-oriented Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Focus of Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"): Sexual abuse of children as a topic for Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Is there a connection between the didactic background knowledge from the Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") programme and the attitude towards experimentation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?
• Which of the three survey methods - group discussion, questionnaire, clustering - can be used to capture the greatest variation in pre-concepts using the example of the topic of "swimming and sinking"?
• Pupils' perceptions of the scientific phenomenon of swimming and sinking
• What changes in pupils' preconceptions can be identified after carrying out a teaching unit on the topic of "The bicycle drive"?
• Questionnaire-based teacher evaluation of opinions and attitudes towards the use of live animals in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"))
• A survey on the assessment of third-graders regarding storytelling as a narrative method in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• What attitudes do primary school teachers have towards extracurricular places of learning and what significance do they see in the interlinking of lessons and extracurricular places of learning?
• Is there a connection between the didactic background knowledge from the Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") programme and the attitude towards experimentation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?
• What attitudes and expectations do pupils in fourth grade have towards the compulsory sex education unit and what consequences can be drawn from this for planning and implementation?
• Significance of documentation on an experiment in the SU for the learning process of pupils
• How do pupils in Year 2 perceive self-regulated learning in the context of inquiry-based learning?
• What is good Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")? A qualitative survey on the perceptions of third-graders
• To what extent does the school programme on "sustainability" influence pupils' knowledge? A comparison of two schools with different school programmes
• Pupils' perceptions on the topic of "magnetism" in a second-grade class. Research into the changes in perceptions after a series of lessons
• What prior knowledge do pupils in Year 4 have about sex education?
• Increase in pupils' performance following a lesson on the subject of bridges
• Use of iPads in primary school: How do children in Year 2 rate working with the "Book Creator" app in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")?
• Survey of children's pre-concepts by analysing drawings on the exemplary topic of how pupils imagine the earth using the day and night cycle
• To what extent do the pre-concepts of two second-grade classes differ with regard to keeping and handling a pet?
• Preconcepts and approaches to expanding pupils' concepts of the origin of day and night in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht"))
• Preconcepts about magnetism of pupils in third grade
• What pre-concepts do pupils in Year 4 have about the formation of the seasons?
• What subjective ideas do third-grade pupils have on the topic of "poverty and wealth" and to what extent can these be utilised in the classroom?
• Pupils' questions in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - An investigation of pupil motivation with regard to pupils' questions
• Preconcepts on the topic of fire in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - using the example of a fourth grade class)
• What ideas about democracy do children have in relation to power? An empirical study of third-graders' conceptions of democracy based on a dilemma-orientated group discussion
• Study project Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") Survey of pre-concepts on the topic of climate protection as part of the Teaching Experience Semester
• "My image of the world" Investigation of the pre-concepts of first and fourth graders on the shape and form of the earth
• "I already know that..." Preconcepts on the topic of the Earth's rotation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Study project - Pupils' preconceptions on the subject of pregnancy

2017

• Are project weeks a useful method for Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") to expand pupils' knowledge?
• Study project: Performance assessment and evaluation in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• Preconceptions of primary school pupils on the subject of light and shadow
• The connection between interest and prior knowledge in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• "What actually is a family?" Survey of children's pre-concepts on the topic of family
• What pre-teaching ideas do primary school children have about the topic of ponds and to what extent do these change as a result of a series of lessons?
• "With the brain perhaps?" - What children think about war and peace.
• Everyday ideas of primary school children on the topic of swimming and sinking of full bodies
• Preconceptions of first-graders on the topic of family
• Career aspirations at primary school age
• The prior knowledge of third-graders on the topic of ants. A survey using the questionnaire method.
• "What can air do?" Pre-concepts of primary school pupils
• The topic of "electricity" in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") - Why pupils' prior knowledge should be activated and what methods can be used to utilise it for lesson planning?
• Survey methods of pre-concepts in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") in a third grade on the topic of nutrition
• The importance of pre-concepts in the development and evaluation of lessons
• Gender-specific career aspirations at primary school age
• Classroom management in experimental Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")
• What preconceptions do primary school pupils have about the components and technical functioning of bicycles?
• Use of technical language in school documents
• How do the pre-concepts of pupils in a first grade change in the course of a teaching unit based on the children's previous experiences?
• Why is it actually snowing? Preconceptions of pupils in a 3rd grade class about the formation of snow. Study project as part of the Teaching Experience Semester
• Study project: Which pre-concepts do pupils in a fourth grade have on the topic "How does a ball bounce?"
• Influence of an experimental approach on pupils' conceptions of scientific phenomena in Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") / Natural Sciences using the example of air
• Investigation of a questionnaire on the topic of children's rights. The survey instrument in the reflection of practice and theory

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