Main areas of research and teaching

AG 1 addresses fundamental theoretical issues in the field of educational science. Its members take up historical and systematic perspectives and deal with the basic pedagogical and educational concepts and theories on the basis of approaches in the social sciences and cultural studies. Their research areas are childhood, youth, and gender studies and pedagogical anthropology.

Basic Theories of Educational Science

• Education and Training
• Childhood and Adolescence
• Subject and Subjectivization
• Generations and the Generational Order

Differentiation, Standardization, and Normalization in Childhood and Youth

• Normalization of childhood development: cultural and practice-theoretical analysis of (early) diagnostic procedures [DFG-Projekt Einschulungsverfahren][DFG-Projekt Kinderköper]
• Pedagogical and anthropological constructions of childhood [Habilitationsprojekt Schmidt]
• Pedagogy and gender [Forschungsprojekt Graff]
• Deviance and Delinquency in Childhood and Adolescence [Forschungsprojekt Pöge]

Educational research on child and youth literature

• [Dissertationsprojekt Babenhauserheide]

Pedagogization of nutrition