Research
Research at the Department of Educational Sciences and Rehabilitation: Development, Innovation, Kooperation
The Department of Educational Sciences and Rehabilitation at LMU comprises three research-intensive institutes focusing on educational and socialization research, school and teaching research, as well as prevention, inclusion, and rehabilitation research. Its interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research is reflected in the numerous third-party funded projects successfully conducted by the department's researchers. Additionally, the department is actively involved in national and international research networks led or coordinated by the department's researchers.
Funded Research Projects & Research Networks
A joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF)
The aim of the "BesserLesen" project is to provide a demonstrative app embedded in a didactic concept for collaborative reading support for primary school children. The app utilizes AI-based automatic pronunciation assessment, enabling learning at an individual pace and offering targeted feedback to enhance children's reading skills.
A joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF)
The KIB³ project aims to integrate competencies for working with Artificial Intelligence into vocational training and higher professional training. As part of the project, a comprehensive additional qualification (ZQ) for both technical and commercial apprenticeship professions will be designed, tested, and evaluated. Additionally, a qualification for professional specialists (DQR Level 5) and a Bachelor Professional (DQR Level 6) will be developed.
DFG-funded
The project examines the (social-)cognitive and socio-emotional development of children with and without deafness/hearing impairment through a comparative longitudinal study, aiming to understand the relationships between language, parental interaction, and developmental processes.
A joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF)
Although children and young people with hearing impairments are particularly vulnerable to experiences of sexualized violence, this group has received little attention from empirical educational research. For this reason, the “DigGaH” project focuses on young people with hearing impairments.
The aims of the project are to conduct empirical research into sexualized violence in the digital space against children and young people with hearing impairments and to subsequently develop prevention and training measures to protect this target group.
A joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF), coordinated by the Department of Educational Sciences and Rehabilitation at LMU
The DiSko project focuses on municipal school providers. In close collaboration with two school providers, digital transformation processes are being examined and assessed for generalizability with additional municipal school providers over the course of the project.
A key aspect of the project is the importance of cooperation structures and networks. These are analyzed within and between school providers, schools, and external stakeholders, exploring how municipal school providers can support such networks. Within the framework of OER strategy funding, these networks provide a foundation for the implementation of interconnected and scalable infrastructures, which are essential for the educational materials and practices developed in the project.
Funded by the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
The EARLI Center for Excellence in Research (E-CER) investigates grade retention beliefs, practices, predictors, effects, and alternatives in 4 different countries (Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium).
A joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF)
The project "Reading Digital – Inclusive Language Education with Multilingual Digital Picture Books in Spoken and Sign Languages (ReaDi)" supports language development for children born in Germany or who have immigrated, with or without hearing impairments, from kindergarten to primary school age, growing up with spoken and sign languages.
A project funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus) as well as various Munich-based foundations
The "Sprache.Schriftsprache.Bildungssprache. (SSB!)" project has been running since the 2017/18 school year in primary and secondary schools in Munich, with the goal of supporting newly immigrated children—with and without refugee backgrounds. As part of the initiative, university students are trained as learning mentors and work alongside teachers in different organizational formats: whole-class instruction, small-group differentiation, or individual support. The teacher remains responsible for the class, while the mentors provide additional assistance. The program is implemented in regular classes as well as German language classes, where newly immigrated children are prepared for integration into standard classrooms.
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