Welcome to the website of the Junior Professorship for German Didactics in an Inclusive Context/Special Educational Needs in Language and Communication (Secondary Level).
We act as change makers in the school education landscape and want to achieve good education FOR all and WITH all.
What do we stand for?
In our daily work, the following values are particularly important to us:
PARTICIPATION, TEAM SPIRIT, COOPERATION & COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, VALUATION, CURIOSITY and EMPATHY.
The way we organise teaching, projects, research, and events including workshops and lectures — reflects our commitment to collaboration. From this approach comes our guiding principle:
Let us share our knowledge and experience!
We are looking for committed students who are interested in supporting our projects. Students from both Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in teaching, education or psychology can get in touch with us.
Interested? Feel free to contact us at winnie-karen.giera@uni-potsdam.de
We look forward to hearing from you!
What we do?
The chair deals with inclusive German didactics with the special focus on language.
Over the next few years, we will be investigating how linguistic and communicative skills can be promoted in cultural/political/vocational school projects for all pupils (with and without special needs).
With the help of empirically evaluated support measures, all pupils should be able to participate culturally, politically and professionally in the sense of inclusion. All our studies are designed to be cyclical and conducted in collaboration with teachers within the framework of design-based research (Philippakos et al., 2021).
We are always interested in national and international research collaborations.
Please feel free to contact us at teamgiera@uni-potsdam.de and tell us about your research project in the following areas:
- Diagnostics and evaluation of individual and group-based writing processes
- Promoting writing and reading skills in schools using the SRSD approach
- Reading skills assessment (screenings)
- Assessment of writing, reading, debating and acting skills and motivation in lower secondary education (screenings)
- Inclusive German didactics in lower secondary education
- Competence-oriented writing tasks for lower secondary education
- Diagnosis and promotion of (meta-)cognitive skills in writing
- Communicative skills in career orientation and preparatory German lessons in lower secondary education
- Self-regulated learning in a school context
- Teacher training in an inclusive teaching and learning context
- Extracurricular and interdisciplinary reading, writing and debating settings
- Digitally supported writing tasks in an inclusive learning setting
- Professional, cultural and political participation of young people through language support
If your research idea matches our research interests, we can begin working together.
