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Professorship of School Development

Photo: Stand: 05/2025

Welcome to the professorship of School Development!

We are an interdisciplinary team that, in research and teaching, deals with how schools address student heterogeneity and inclusive schooling as well as related school development processes.

News

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Learning in diversity

13.04.26: The MuHiK project presents findings on multidimensional heterogeneity within the University of Potsdam’s journal “Portal”.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5

New publication co-authored by Claudia Neuendorf: Reproducibility of Social and Behavioral Science

08.04.2026: Researchers were able to reproduce the results of 54% of the published articles using the original data.

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/mudire

MuDiRe: A Fruitful Exchange of Best Practices

08.04.2026: We held a discussion with MuDiRe practice partners on the topic: “How can diversity be leveraged in democracy education?” 

 

 

https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051

New publication by Mr Lorenz and Ms Rjosk on ethnic diversity and social cohesion

01.04.2026: Ethnic diversity has little impact on networks: despite ethnic homophily, social cohesion in school classes remains largely stable.

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/schooldevelopment/index/former-employees

Goodbye Rebecca Wetter

01.04.2026: We bid farewell to Rebecca Wetter, who has been working as a research assistant on our MuHiK project.

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/schulentwicklung/Dateien/Flyer_Einladung_Interaktive_Praxistagung_Heterogenit%C3%A4t_im_Klassenzimmer.pdf

Interactive workshop: "Diversity in the Classroom"

01.04.2026: Representatives from school administration and teaching staff came together for the workshop (27 February 2026) to discuss diversity in the classroom.

Handset

There are a lot of textbooks, specialist literature and other materials in the school development handbook that you can borrow.

Please send a loan request to schulentwicklung@uni-potsdam.de.

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