Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht") Major Subject (Primary Schools)

The aim of "Integrated Studies for Primary Education (‘Sachunterricht’)" in primary school is to support children in exploring their living environment, to enable them to orientate themselves in it and to form relationships to the environment more and more independently. This goal not only extends to a wide range of subject-specific content, but also requires a didactically independent, interdisciplinary and multi-perspective preparation of this content in "Integrated Studies for Primary Education (‘Sachunterricht’)".

The interdisciplinary degree programme of the Major Subject "Integrated Studies for Primary Education (‘Sachunterricht’)" as part of the Teacher Training Bachelor at Bielefeld University includes elements of natural sciences (with the electives Biology, Chemistry and Physics) and social sciences (with the electives History and Social Sciences). It enables students to acquire subject-related competences and an insight into the subject-specific significance of all disciplines involved. The subject-specific and didactic perspectives of the five sub-disciplines are supplemented by the multidisciplinary, multi-perspective view of "Integrated Studies for Primary Education ("Sachunterricht")". On this basis, students learn to develop and plan teaching-learning processes for the subject and to reflect on them in exchange with teaching staff and students, so they can experience, evaluate and apply educational goals, concepts and didactic principles of "Integrated Studies for Primary Education (‘Sachunterricht’)" as a whole. The subject "Integrated Studies for Primary Education (‘Sachunterricht’)" has to be combined with Educational Sciences (optionally with Integrated Teacher Training for Special Education), Elementary Mathematics and German Literacy. The degree programme qualifies students to teach at primary schools. A subsequent Master of Education degree is obligatory for this.