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Welcome to the website of the Junior Professorship for German Didactics in an Inclusive Context/Special Educational Needs in Language and Communication (Secondary Level).

We act as change makers in the school education landscape and want to achieve good education FOR all and WITH all.


What do we stand for?

Logo der inklusiven Deutschdidaktik
Source: Stefanie Zeise

In our daily work, the following values are particularly important to us:

PARTICIPATION, TEAM SPIRIT, COOPERATION & COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, VALUATION, CURIOSITY and EMPATHY.

The way we organise teaching, projects, research, and events including workshops and lectures — reflects our commitment to collaboration. From this approach comes our guiding principle:

Let us share our knowledge and experience!

 

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Source: Stefanie Zeise

Team Inklusive Deutschdidaktik
Photo: Thomas Roese
F.l.t.r. Eve Schlüsselburg (Trainee), Eric Graßnick (Research Assistant), Lucas Deutzmann (Academic Staff), Prof. Dr. Winnie-Karen Giera, Sheikh M. Subhan (Research Assistant), Sara Hauser (Academic Staff), Anitha R. George (Research Assistant), Yoga Menike (PhD candidate). Nicht auf dem Foto: Amitoj Amitoj (Research Assistant).

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Photo: Kitty Fried (2023)

What we do?

The chair deals with inclusive German didactics with the special focus on language.

Over the next few years, we will be investigating how linguistic and communicative skills can be promoted in cultural/political/vocational school projects for all pupils (with and without special needs).

With the help of empirically evaluated support measures, all pupils should be able to participate culturally, politically and professionally in the sense of inclusion. All our studies are designed to be cyclical and conducted in collaboration with teachers within the framework of design-based research (Philippakos et al., 2021).

 

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Photo: Kitty Fried (2023)
Leitspruch der inklusiven Deutschdidaktik (Prof. Dr. Giera)

Save the Date! Reserch Symposium ARLE SIG Literacies: Reading, Writing & Oracies

22-24 October 2025, University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Malta

ARLE SIG Literacy Brown Bag Meeting

For PhD students with research in literacy (oral and written language)

Potsdam meets Winneba

Winnie-Karen Giera and Lilly Woltersdorf visit Ghana in August 2024.

We are looking for committed students who are interested in supporting our projects. Students from both Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in teaching, education or psychology can get in touch with us.

Interested?  Feel free to contact us at winnie-karen.giera@uni-potsdam.de

We look forward to hearing from you!