
Anja Henke
Research staff
- telephone:+49 331 977 113177
- E-Mail:anja.henkeuuni-potsdampde
- Web:www.uni-potsdam.de/schulpaedagogik
address: Campus Golm
Room 2.24. 1.81
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
opening time: consulting hours
By agrragement
Research interests
- Adaptive learning technologies
- Robots in education
- Emotions in learning contexts in school and teacher education
- One of the goals of her work at the professorship is the development of an adaptive support system for the competence development of student teachers in the context of reflection processes.
Professional experience
Since 2022 - Research associate at the Professorship of School Education and in the Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence" (TU Berlin), University of Potsdam
2020 – 2022 - Research assistant in the Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence"(TU Berlin) at the Professorship of School Education, University of Potsdam
2019 – 2020 - Research assistant in the project "Reflect" at the Professorship of School Pedagogy, University of Potsdam
2019 – 2020 - Language tutor at the Center for Languages and Key Competencies, University of Potsdam
2021 – 2022 - Germany Scholarship Holder (Deutschlandstipendium "Potsdamer Universitätsstipendium") at the Helmholtz Think Tank
2020 – 2022 - M. Ed. Master Teacher for Secondary Level II for the subjects English and Geography, University of Potsdam ("with distinction")
2016 – 2020 - B. Ed. Bachelor Teacher Training Secondary Level I & II for the subjects English and Geography, University of Potsdam
Publications
2024
Ackermann, H.*, Henke, A.*, Chevalère, J., Yun, H. S., Hafner, V. V., Pinkwart, N., & Lazarides, R. (2025). Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance. npj Science of Learning, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00293-z
* These authors contributed equally.
2023
Henke, A., Westphal, A., Hußner, I. & Lazarides, R. (2023). How do you feel reflecting on your teaching practice? Relations between student teachers’ teaching-related self-efficacy and emotion word use in written reflections on teaching situations. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-023-01186-4
Chevalère, J., Yun, H. J., Henke, A., Pinkwart, N., Hafner, V. & Lazarides, R. (2023). A sequence of learning processes in an intelligent tutoring system from topic-related appraisals to learning gains. Learning and Instruction, 87, 101799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101799
Chevalère, J., Lazarides, R., Yun, H. S., Henke, A., Lazarides, C., Pinkwart, N. & Hafner, V. (2023). Do instructional strategies that account for emotions in activity reduce student boredom in a computer-based open learning environment? Computers and Education, 196, 104741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2023.104741