Research

The institute conducts basic and applied research on central scientific and social issues in formal, non-formal, and informal educational contexts such as school, family, the work environment, or youth work. This is done with historical, qualitative, quantitative, and theory-building approaches and with the support of public and private institutions: the Swiss National Science Foundation, foundations, companies, the Federal Government, cantons, and municipalities. The list of current publications provides an overview of the internal research.

A large part of the research at the Institute of Education is organized in research groups at the individual chairs. The research that is conducted at the currently thirteen chairs at the institute covers a broad spectrum of educational science topics:

• General Education Studies (Prof. Dr. Roland Reichenbach)
• History of Education and Educational Policy Analysis (Prof. Dr. Christian Ydesen)
• Extracurricular Education (Prof. Dr. Peter Rieker)
• Educational Science with focus on Social Pedagogy (Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite)
• Educational Science with focus on Theory and Empirical Research of Educational Processes in Schools (Prof. Dr. Katharina Maag Merki)
• Research on Learning, Instruction and Didactics (Prof. Dr. Anna Praetorius)
• Inclusion and Diversity (Prof. Dr. Franziska Felder)
• Special Education with focus on Inclusion and Instruction Research (Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Moser Opitz)
• Teaching in Upper Secondary Education in General Academic and Economic Subjects with a Special Focus on Digital Learning (Prof. Dr. Doreen Flick-Holtsch)
• Upper Secondary Education with Special Focus on Research on Teaching and Learning (Prof. Dr. Yves Karlen)
• Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education (Prof. Dr. Katrin Kraus)
• Teaching and Educational Technology (Prof. Dr. Dominik Petko)
• Science and Sustainability Education (Prof. Dr. Kai Niebert)

• Digital Higher Education (Prof. Dr. Joshua Weidlich)

• Educational Technology (Prof. Dr. S. Schneider)
• Research Methods in Developmental and Educational Sciences (Prof. Dr. M. Tomasik)

These research activites are supplementd by research at the Research Center and the Offices for Research Methods:

• Research Center (Dr. phil. Michèle Hofmann)
• Office for Quantitative Methods (Dr. phil. Urs Grob)
• Office for Historical-Textanalytical Methods (Dr. phil. Rebekka Horlacher)
• Office for Qualitative Methods (Dr. phil. Silke Werner)