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Diana Uffmann

Sekretariat / Professur Vogt

Telephone
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z0-109

Address

Building Z
Consequence 41a
33615 Bielefeld

School pedagogy in comparative perspective

Working Group 11 focuses on research in school pedagogy from a comparative perspective and school inclusion, particularly concerning emotional-social developmental support. Questions about the tension between inclusion and exclusion in educational processes are a central orientation framework.

Comparative perspectives sharpen the view of educational processes locally and globally and enable historical contextualization. The working group focuses on the development and evolution of educational systems in the past and present. Considering the assumption that the regional can only be meaningfully understood in the context of the national and the global, comparative and contextualized perspectives are a necessary basis for innovation and transformation processes in the school and education system.

Local perspectives on supportive framework conditions in inclusive school settings are the starting point for these reflections and discussions. In this respect, intertwined findings from local and global perspectives lead to a deeper understanding of general school system issues and emotional-social developmental support in particular.

Current research projects within the working group deal with the following topics, for example:

  • The conditions for successful social participation of individual pupils and possible factors influencing social participation.
  • The diagnostic process in the transition to secondary school for children with special educational needs in inclusive settings and teacher criteria that lead to a recommendation for a special or general secondary school.
  • The significance of teacher beliefs in connection with the transition recommendation from elementary school to secondary school.
  • Inter-state, historical-diachronic, and synchronic comparisons of education systems are accompanied and expanded by a view of transnational phenomena independent of state developments.
  • International comparative analysis of modes of school assessment procedures as a field of multi-professional decision-making.
  • The understandings of “Bildung” and “education” in different cultural contexts.
  • Mis- and missing information as a global phenomenon regarding the stream of information across national school systems and about them.
  • (Digital) teaching and learning materials as internationally relevant multipliers of teachers’ actions.

Our research projects focus on school contexts and issues, and their social, historical, and institutional preconditions, tasks, goals, and visualizations.

Our teaching concept reflects the range of these issues by shaping the thematic content along with long-term international collaborations with researchers and teachers. We also involve local experts in the courses we offer. In doing so, we develop innovative teaching formats geared towards the students’ needs.

Members

Prof. Dr. Michaela Vogt


														Prof. Dr. Michaela Vogt
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Comparative Educational Research, Theory and History of Inclusive Pedagogy

michaela.vogt@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-67754
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-134

Prof. Dr. Sina Schürer


														Prof. Dr. Sina Schürer
													 (Photo)

Professorin für Erziehungswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt schulische Inklusion und emotional-soziale Entwicklungsförderung

sina.schuerer@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-67035
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-86318

Bhumika Bandodker

departmental teaching staff

bhumika.bandodker@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-86787
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-131

Stefanie Go


														Stefanie Go
													 (Photo)

Research assistant

stefanie.go@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-3156
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-130

Irina Hertel


														Irina Hertel
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irina.hertel@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-86385
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-86318
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-127

Dr. Amelie Labusch


														Dr. Amelie Labusch
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Research assistant in NEOLAiA

amelie.labusch@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-3888
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-132

Sophie Marticke


														Sophie Marticke
													 (Photo)

sophie.marticke@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-86318
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-127

Till Neuhaus

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

till.neuhaus@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-86786
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-133

Marlene Pieper


														Marlene Pieper
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Aktuell in Elternzeit

marlene.pieper@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-86785
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-132

Vanessa Rempel


														Vanessa Rempel
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wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SeGeL-Projekt

vrempel5@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-86318

Dr. Mark Schäffer-Trencsényi


														Dr. Mark Schäffer-Trencsényi
													 (Photo)

aktuell in Elternzeit

mark.schaeffer@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-67831
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-135

María José Viteri Paredes

Research assistant in the DFG project "Zwischen nationalen Idiosynkrasien und globaler Grammatik. A historical international comparison of school examination procedures"

Conducting a qualitative comparative educational history study on special school examination procedures in several countries.

maria.viteri@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-87846
Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-131

Dr. Kathrin Berdelmann

Lehrbeauftragte SoSe 2024

kathrin.berdelmann@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Friederike Marleen Gödecke

Lehrbeauftragte im SoSe 2024 / WiSe 2024/2025

friederike.goedecke@web.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Max Schnitzerling

Lehrbeauftragter seit SoSe 2024

max.schnitzerling@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Oliver Friedrich


														Oliver Friedrich
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Studentische Hilfskraft

oliver.friedrich@uni-bielefeld.de

Maren Eileen Haarnagell

Studentische Hilfskraft im Projekt DigiLLM

maren.haarnagell@uni-bielefeld.de

Sofia Esperanza Rothenburg Picas

Student assistant in the NEOLAiA project

sofia.rothenburg@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Tim Jannik Schweppe

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Projekt DigiLLM

tim.schweppe@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Thanh Thuy Ta Thi

Student assistant in the NEOLAiA project

thanh.ta@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Renié Sophie Tönsfeuerborn

Student assistant in the DigiLLM project

renie.toensfeuerborn@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone secretary
+49 521 106-3320

Vivienne Uffmann

Studentische Hilfskraft

vivienne.uffmann@uni-bielefeld.de

Diana Uffmann

Sekretariat / Professur Vogt

sekretariat-ag11.ew@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-3320
Room
Gebäude Z Z0-109

Anietaa Rajakulanathan

Sekretariat / Professur Schürer (in Mutterschutz)

sekretariat-ag11.schuerer.ew@uni-bielefeld.de

Telephone
+49 521 106-3143
Room
Gebäude Z Z2-125

Projects

Study and teaching

The staff of AG 11 researches and teaches in the broad range of topics in school pedagogy from a comparative perspective.

Basic information on the final module and theses (Bachelor) can be found here: Final module Bachelor EW
Basic information on the final module and theses (Master) can be found here: Final module Master EW
Basic information on the Bachelor BiWi (HRsGe)

The members of the working group have the following thematic focus in the supervision of theses:


Bhumika Bandodker (M.A.)

  • Historical, socio-cultural and policy understandings of learning disabilities in school-age children
  • Teacher autonomy and practice in educational contexts in the Global South
  • International comparisons of Inclusive Education and practice in Global South contexts
  • International comparisons of digital learning materials as a framework for intercultural teacher education and professional development

Stefanie Go (M.A.)

  • Use of (digital) educational materials in STEM subjects
  • Qualitative educational research
  • (Digital) inclusion-sensitive teaching and learning materials
  • Participatory media use
  • Use of chatbots in teaching/ AI in higher education teaching

Irina Hertel

Thematic focus:

  • Diagnostics and support in the context of special educational needs in language, learning and ESE
  • Dealing with linguistic diversity in school practice
  • Educational partnership between school and home

Methodological focus:

  • Qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social research
  • Guided and narrative interviews
  • Content-analytical and reconstructive methods

Dr Amelie Labusch

  • Diversity, educational inequalities, and inclusion in different countries in the context of current societal and educational policy developments
  • Digitalisation, algorithmic thinking/computational thinking, and artificial intelligence in educational contexts
  • Learning processes, self-efficacy, and self-regulation of teachers and learners in teacher education and professionalisation with a focus on diversity and inclusion in an international comparison
  • Missing information and misinformation in and about international education systems
  • School and higher education development, and the analysis of educational processes using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research

Sophie Marticke

  • Social participation in school classes
  • Group structures and processes
  • social (pedagogical) relationships
  • social network analysis

Till Neuhaus (M.A.)

  • Reflections and historical studies on aspects of the 'grammar of schooling' (spatial arrangements, temporal phasing, practices)
  • Historical changes in concepts of disability (primarily in the field of learning and ESE)
  • History of assessments, history of individual test instruments
  • History of knowledge in the field of special education (and its predecessors)
  • Institutional history in the field of special education

Prof. Dr. Sina Schürer

  • Teacher behaviour in the context of primary school transition
  • Multi-professional cooperation in inclusive schools
  • Pedagogical relationships
  • Social integration/participation

Marìa Josè Viteri Paredes (M.A.)

  • Inclusive Education: Theoretical, Cultural, and Political Exploration
  • Critical Reflections on Special Education Pedagogy
  • Exploring the Nuances of Inclusion and Exclusion in Educational Settings
  • Navigating Diversity: Intersecting Dimensions of Inclusion in School Environments
  • Comparative Education in the Global Context: Examining Inclusion and Exclusion from a Critical Angle

Prof Dr Michaela Vogt

  • Understandings of education/ competence in historical and contemporary approaches
  • Special Needs Assessment procedures in different countries
  • Educational inclusion in diverging countries
  • Inclusion sensitive learning materials
  • adaptivity of educational materials, open educational resources, and artificial intelligence
  • Missing information and misinformation regarding international educational systems
  • analysis of primary education as a discipline at German universities

Guest Scientists

2025

Prof. Dr Nuria Gonzalez Castellano will be a guest at AG 11 from 16-20 June 2025.

Prof. Dr. Erika Marie Pace will be a guest in AG 11 as part of the Blended Intensive Programme 'Breaking the Bubble' from 10-14 June 2025.

Prof. Dr. Agni Stylianou is a guest in AG 11 as part of the Blended Intensive Programme 'Breaking the Bubble' from 10-14 June 2025.

Dr Natalia Tsybuliak will be a guest at AG 11 from 5 May-27 June 2025.

Dr Hanna Lopatina will be a guest at AG 11 from 5 May-27 June 2025.

Dr Anastasia Popova will be a guest at AG 11 from 5-23 May 2025.

Artem Polulyacov will be a guest at AG 11 from 5 May-27 June 2025.

Zahra Sadat Mohajeri will be a guest at AG 11 from 24 March to 19 September 2025.

2024

Dr. Marelize van Heerden ist vom 25.-29. November 2024 zu Gast in der AG 11.

Dr Lee Kok Sonk (Punggol Green Primary School) will be a guest in AG 11 from 25.05.24 - 16.06.24.

He is also a Temporary Lecturer in the summer semester 2024 and will hold the following block seminar with Christoph Bierschwale:
School Development in an international comparative perspective - The Singapore Experience (250364).

There will also be a workshop in presence on 11.06.24 from 16:00 - 18:00 in room Y1 - 201. We look forward to your participation.

Dr M. Ugin Rositta is currently a Temporary Lecturer (WiSe 2023/2024) and holds the following seminar:

Inclusive Education from an international comparative perspective through the eyes of the Indian experience (BS) (250359)

She will be a guest in AG 11 from 15.01.24-21.01.24. We will inform you about presentations and exchange opportunities here as soon as possible.

About the person
Dr M. M. UGIN ROSITTA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Madras. She holds a degree of M.Com (Commerce), M.Ed (Education), Doctor of Philosophy (Education). She has published 14 publications in Indian/international journals and papers in national/international seminars and organised and participated in 14 workshops/seminars. Her areas of specialisation are teacher education, inclusive education, qualitative research methods in education and value education.

 

Prof.'in Dr.'in Anna Hickey-Moody (RMIT University, Melbourne)

Australian Professor Anna Hickey-Moody (RMIT University, Melbourne) will be a guest at Bielefeld University from 11.11.2022 - 16.11.2022, invited by WG 11. Anna Hickey-Moody's stay is funded by the Faculty of Educational Science.

The presenter is best known for her extensive theoretical and empirical publications on her work with socially excluded people, especially young people with disabilities, young refugees and people with migration histories, the economically and socially disadvantaged, and men on the margins of society. Among other things, she is known for her ethnographic studies.

Dates

15.11.2022 | 18:15-19:45 | Room X-E0-224 or via Zoom.

We invite you to the presentation: "Family stories as resources for a decolonial culturally responsive pedagogy".

Topic: Guest lecture by EW

Zoom meeting join
https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/j/95519324604?pwd=TGNEZ0d5dkhwMDFyNHhib1AxMUs4UT09

Meeting-ID: 955 1932 4604
Password: 924398

If you/should you be interested in interacting with the guest outside of the presentation, please feel free to contact Mark Schäffer-Trencsényi (mark.schaeffer@uni-bielefeld.de).

Prof. Dr. Anna Kirova (University of Alberta/Edmonton, Canada)

The Canadian professor Anna Kirova will be a guest at Bielefeld University from May 16 to June 24, 2022, invited by WG 11. In Canada, she teaches and conducts research at the University of Alberta (Edmonton).

Her stay is funded by the IGL program and the Faculty of Educational Science. Ms. Kirova is very interested in exchange and cooperation with colleagues from Bielefeld. If you are interested in an exchange, please contact Mark Schäffer: mark.schaeffer@uni-bielefeld.de.

 

Dates

30.05.2022 | 12.15-13.45 | Room Y0-111 or via Zoom

We invite you to the guest lecture of Prof. Dr. Anna Kirova on 30.05.2022 from 12.15-13.45:

As part of the lecture on "Introduction to Special Education and Inclusive Pedagogy" (Birgit Lütje-Klose and Mark Schäffer-Trencsényi).

Meeting the Needs of Newcomer Students: Lessons Learned from Canadian Classrooms

in attendance: Y0-111 or via Zoom at:

https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/j/98586925602?pwd=bzg3V211bEJkMlVvZkJ2WSsvcm1DZz09

Meeting ID: 985 8692 5602

Password: 908344

 

01.06.2022 | 18-19 Uhr | Room X-E1-232 | or via Zoom

We invite you to the LehrBar Special

Reflection on international digital and in-person teaching

Impulse: Prof. Dr. Anna Kirova | Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada | Faculty of Education

Detailed information at: https: //www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/zll/hdle/lehrbar/
 

To participate in digital format, please dial in using this link:

https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/j/64713696436?pwd=Y1NEWUVjN1EzSHl3UGwwODNiTHRRQT09


Meeting ID: 647 1369 6436
Password: 308856

 

 

 

 

 

Current events

2025

Laura Tufano, NEOLAIA Diversity & Inclusion Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy, was invited as a guest in the seminar Exploring Worldwide Education systems (250322).

She has given a lecture on the topic "A Comparative perspective on the Italian Education System".

Dr. Lee Kok Sonk, Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore was invited as a guest in the seminar Exploring Worldwide Education systems (250322).

Dr. Lee, is a researcher in Physical Education and Sports Science, participated in compelling discussion on the topic "A Comparative Education perspective on the Singapore’s Education System".

2024

Younsun Choi, Ph.D candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, South Korea was invited as a guest in the seminar Exploring Worldwide Education systems (250322).

Younsun Choi is a researcher in Curriculum and Instruction (Curriculum Studies and Global Education) participated in compelling discussion on the topic "A Comparative Education perspective on the South Korean Education System".

Dr. Oksana Boyko Associate Professor Head of MA in Social Work Program, Chair of the Department School of Social Work named after V. Poltavets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Kyiv, was invited as a guest in the seminar Globale Perspektiven auf Inklusion und Exclusion (250313).

She has given a lecture on the topic "Ukrainien perspectives on inclusion and exclusion."

Marta Correas, was invited as a guest in the seminar Exploring Worldwide Education systems (250322).

Marta Correas is Early Childhood and Primary Education Teacher participated in compelling discussion on the topic "A Comparative Education perspective on the Spanish Education System".

Déborah Oliveira, Multilingual Advisor in Migration, Internationalisation, Language and Plurilingual Education Specialist, International House Oulu, Finnland was invited as a guest in the seminar Globale Perspektiven auf Inklusion und Exclusion (250313).

She has given a lecture on the topic "Brazilian perspectives on inclusion and exclusion."

Guest lecture by Ass. Prof. Dr. Bice Della Piana from the Università di Salerno, Italy Termin: 22.11.2024 | at 1.30 pm | Zoom

Dr. Sekitla Makhasane, Senior Lecturer & Acting Assistant Dean, Department: Education

Management, Policy and Comparative Education, University of Free State, South Africa, was invited as a guest in the seminar Globale Perspektiven auf Inklusion und Exclusion (250313).

He has given a lecture on the topic "South African Perspectives on inclusion and exclusion."

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