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  • Professorship in the didactics of social sciences

    Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg took over the Professorship of Didactics of Social Sciences in the summer semester 2024. Prior to her appointment at the University of Münster, she was Junior Professor of Education and Democracy Education in the Context of Integration and Migration at Leipzig University.

    Her research interests focus on the development of political skills in students. Among other things, she examines the knowledge and attitude structures of pupils and related learning opportunities, the design of controversy in the classroom and possibilities for participatory school development.

    As the national research coordinator for Schleswig-Holstein, she is part of the national study management of the IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2022), which examines how eighth-grade students are and will be prepared for their role as citizens in a democracy in an international comparison. The national report on the study has just been published (open access). For ICCS 2027, she is also leading the international expert group for the further development of the test on political knowledge and argumentation in the study.

    Contact: Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg

past presentations

  • Presentation, Tuesday 25. June 2214

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    The didactics of social sciences invite you to the public colloquium:

    AI as a black box. Functionality and references to social science didactics

    Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 5:15 pm

    Location: Lern- und Forschungswerkstatt Aasee; Scharnhorststraße 110 (Gartenhaus) or via Zoom (https://wwu.zoom.us/j/92755584681)

    Lecturer:

    • Dr. Dr. Michael te Vrugt, Postdoctoral Researcher at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
    • Daniel te Vrugt, teacher at Mariengarden Grammar School and research associate at IfPol


    After an introduction to the topic by the physicist and philosopher Dr. Dr. Michael te Vrugt from the perspective of a natural scientist, the teacher and research associate at IfPol Daniel te Vrugt will build a bridge to social science didactics with topics such as "prompt engineering" in lesson preparation, fake news and consequences for political education.

  • Presentation by Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg on July 6, 2024