Frederik Damerau
Research Associate
University of Leipzig
Nikolaistraße 27-29
Room 3.08
04109 Leipzig
consulting hours
Thursday 13:00 to 15:00; registration by e-mail
Research interests
- Democratic competence(s)
- Democracy education, in particular various topics of democracy education and political didactics
- Educational sciences, including experience-based learning and professionalization processes
- Democracy education in the professionalization of educational specialists and teachers
- Democratic school development
Professional experience
since 10/2019 Research associate with a focus on democratic competence in teacher training at the Center for Journalism and Democracy (JoDem) for the Department of Civic Education and Educational Systems at the Institute of Political Science (Leipzig University)
since 06/2021 Spokesperson of the network "Democracy Education in Thuringia"
since 11/2018 Co-founder and board member of VereinT Zukunft Bilden e. V.
04/2020 - 12/2020 Research associate at the Department of Political Education at the Institute of Political Science (Leipzig University) for the development of the module "Economic Education" as part of the GRW study program
05/2018 - 12/2019 Research associate in the project "Thüringen 19_19" of the Förderverein Demokratisch Handeln e. V. (project funding: BMFSFJ and TMBJS)
10/2017 - 03/2018 Collaboration on the study "Democracy promotion in adolescence at the interface school - extracurricular actors" of the Institute for Applied Family, Childhood and Youth Research e. V. at the University of Potsdam
10/2016 - 02/2018 Student assistant in the field of democracy education at the Center for Right-Wing Extremism Research, Democracy Education and Social Integration at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
01/2015 - 12/2017 Editor of the yearbook series Demokratiepädagogik: Volume 4 "Friedenspädagogik und Demokratiepädagogik" and Volume 5 "Demokratische Bildungslandschaften"
10/2013 - 03/2017 Student assistant at the Chair of Didactics of Politics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with Prof. Dr. Michael May
09/2012 - 03/2018 Student assistant at the nationwide school competition "Förderprogramm Demokratisch Handeln", supported by the Förderverein Demokratisch Handeln e. V.
Publications
Feurich, A.; Damerau, F. 2019 – ein Jubiläumsjahr für Demokratiestärkung und demokratisches Lernen. Außerschulische Bildung - Zeitschrift der politischen Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung. 2019. S. 59-62Damerau, F.; Lange, J.
Damerau, F.; Lange, J. Thüringen 19_19 – Geschichte als Anlass für Demokratielernen. Lernen aus der Geschichte. 2019. S. 5-8.
Damerau, F.; May, M.; Patz, J. Demokratiebildung in Professionalisierungsprozessen – Eine Analyse der Thüringer Ausbildungssituation in ausgewählten Regelstrukturen sozialer Berufe.Zentrum für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung & gesellschaftliche Integration der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. 2017.
Beiler, M.; Biskop, R. B.; Damerau, F.; Krüger, U.; Lücker, M.; Pfeiffer, J.; Pollak, C. In den Kopf und unter die Haut. Wie wir Journalismus- und Demokratiekompetenz in der Leipziger Lehramtsausbildung vermitteln. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung 19 (Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik). 2023. S. 339-363. DOI: 10.21240/mpaed/jb19/2023.03.13.X