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Professorship of Educational Science with a focus on general didactics and educational theory
Brief curriculum vitae
11/2022- : Professor of Educational Science specializing in General Didactics and Educational Theory.
03/2020-08/2021: Birth of my daughter Filis Hanna, parental leave and part-time parental leave.
07/2019-10/2022: Academic co-worker Educational Science/Educational Sciences in practical semester (SekI/II+integrated special education).
10/2018-03/2019: Substitute professor for Special Education and Inclusion with a focus on school development and classroom research at the University of Paderborn.
06/2016-06/2019: Process leader (PostDoc) of the working area critical-reflexive practice orientation in Biprofessional/Quality Offensive Teacher Education.
10/2010-03/2017: Doctorate in WG 4 (School Development and School Research) at the Faculty of Educational Science - Title: "Education and Empowerment: A Qualitative Study on Critical-Constructive Didactics and Capabilities Approach", supervised by Barbara Koch-Priewe and Holger Ziegler, overall grade outstanding/summa cum laude
10/2014-05/2016: academic co-worker Educational Science/Educational Sciences in the practical semester with preparatory training (SekI/II+integrated special education).
05/2011-09/2014: Academic co-worker in WG 4 (School Research and School Development) in various job shares (Secondary Education, Educational Science as a subject, academic co-worker in Oberstufenkolleg [High School College]).
2010: Degree in Educational Science, Philosophy and German Studies as Master of Education/State exam(ination) for Gymnasium and Gesamtschule.
Current projects
Workplace Teaching Subject Pedagogy
SchuB - School choice and educational aspiration
congo@schools (research team Zielkonflikte)
Publications'
See http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/person/22517456
Presentations and workshops
Poster
'''Completed Projects.
HLZ | Herausforderung Lehrer_innenbildung - Zeitschrift zu Konzeption, Gestaltung und Diskussion
VfL Praxis
'Education and Empowerment: A Qualitative Study on Critical-Constructive Didactics and Capabilities Approach
minor and dormant projects
Conference Organization
Education in the Field of Emptiness
My chair explores Bildung and education as a bodily situated event within the field of emptiness—an event in which subjectivity, relation to the world, and self-understanding are newly constituted, again and again, in pure experience.
This perspective brings the Japanese Kyoto School of philosophy into dialogue with Western phenomenology as well as research on inclusion and professionalization. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding teaching and learning—and, consequently, teacher education.
1. Kyoto School of Philosophy
Pure experience · Place · Absolute nothingness
The Kyoto School (Nishida, Nishitani, among others) overcomes the Western subject–object dichotomy through the concept of pure experience (junsui keiken)—a mode of experiencing in which self and world arise simultaneously. Place (basho) is not merely spatial; it is the ground from which relations and meanings emerge. Absolute nothingness (zettai mu) is not nihilistic, but rather the creative horizon in which every fixation is suspended.
Pedagogically, this means: Education is a becoming-situated within an open field of possibility.
2. Non-Self (muga)
Not a precondition, but a result · Emergent · Processual
In contrast to Western theories of the subject, the Kyoto School does not understand the self as a substantial unity. The Buddhist concept of non-self (muga / anātman) holds that the self is empty of any fixed essence and emerges in relational enactments. Self-negation (jiko hitei) is therefore not a loss but an opening—the condition that enables persons to reconstitute themselves anew within situations.
Pedagogically, this means: Inclusion is the creation of situations in which a shared becoming-of-self becomes possible.
3. Phenomenology: Emptiness & Nothing
Direct experience · Enabling emptiness · Critique of over-structuring
Whereas Western pedagogy often treats emptiness as lack (empty time = wasted time), this perspective understands emptiness as a productive, enabling space. Not-knowing, indeterminacy, and moments of silence are not deficits; they are the condition for genuine learning. This concept also enables a critique of over-academization: where is the space for the openness of nothingness?
Pedagogically, this means: Good teaching consists in consciously keeping open spaces of indeterminacy.
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4. Embodied Educational Experience
Embodiment as world-disclosure · Bodily knowing · Atmospheres
Learning is not cognitive accumulation, but bodily transformation. The body is not a vehicle; it is the site of experience and of world-constitution. This means that a teacher’s voice, their spatial presence, their gesture—all of this fundamentally shapes learning environments. The same holds for students with physical impairments: different embodiment is not a deficit, but a different mode of world-disclosure.
Pedagogically, this means: To be professional is to enable the other’s embodied experience.