Research

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On these pages the research group »Research on Teachers and Teacher Education« informs about current and finished research projects.

 


Project

Digitalization in the Teaching Profession (DiLL)


The research project deals with the advancing digitalization in the teaching profession. It is unclear what exactly is meant when publications refer to digitalization. A systematizing overview is pending. In a first step this desideratum is addressed via a heuristic which is generated through an interdisciplinary synopsis and distinguishes between two perspectives, a perspective of reference and a perspective of process. As a next step, this theoretical frame is used as a starting point for a systematic review of first the German and then the international literature. The systematic review is able to describe the prominence of different discourses, connotations and research topics and how, if at all, they are interconnected. In a third step, teachers will be interviewed about their beliefs, interpretations and connotations of the digital, for example when dealing with e-portfolios. Hence, the key research questions are: How can the term and the object of digitalization be understood and how do (prospective) teachers frame it correspondingly?



Publications


Binder, K., & Cramer, C. (2021). Digitalisierung in der Fachliteratur zum Lehrer*innenberuf. Eine Bestandsaufnahme und Verhältnisbestimmung mittels critical review. Herausforderung Lehrer*innenbildung, 4(1), 329–343. https://doi.org/10.11576/hlz-4518

Binder, K., & Cramer, C. (2020). Digitalisierung im Lehrer*innenberuf: Heuristik der Bestimmung von Begriff und Gegenstand. In K. Kaspar, M. Becker-Mrotzek, S. Hofhues, J. König & D. Schmeinck (Hrsg.), Bildung, Schule, Digitalisierung (pp. 401–407). Münster: Waxmann. 

 

About

Dr. Colin Cramer holds an endowed full professorship of educational science at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Thurgau University of Teacher Education (Switzerland).

Aims 

The aim of research in the Educational Science working group is to make basic theoretical, systematic and empirical contributions to questions of education. Research on teachers and teacher education as a focal point has the aim to understand who teachers and school leaders are, under which circumstances they work and how they can be prepared for their tasks appropriately in initial teacher education as well as in continuing professional development. In teaching, the working group is responsible for the basic foundations in the field of education, educational psychology and sociology of education in the teacher education programs.

Get in Touch

University of Konstanz

Address:
Prof. Dr. Colin Cramer
University of Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10 | Fach 45
D-78464 Konstanz
Germany

Phone:
+49 (0) 7531 88-4144

Email:
colin.cramer@uni-konstanz.de

Office Hours:
Registration via email required

 

Thurgau University of Teacher Education

Address:
Prof. Dr. Colin Cramer
Thurgau University of Teacher Education
Unterer Schulweg 3 | Postfach
CH-8280 Kreuzlingen
Switzerland

Phone:
N.N.

Email:
colin.cramer@ph-thurgau.ch

Office Hours:
Registration via email required