Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg has been Junior Professor for Education and Democracy Education in the Context of Integration and Migration at the Faculty of Education at the Leipzig University since November 2021. She is also part of the national study leadership of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2022). From 2018 to 2021, she was a substitute professor for the Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and before that a research assistant at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Karlsruhe University of Education. Her research questions are located in the field of international comparative research on civic and citizenship education and aim at the development of political competencies and attitudes, participation and participatory school development as well as the development of professional competencies of prospective teachers, for example, through the use of animated teaching vignettes (LArS).
for more information:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/personenprofil/mitarbeiter/juniorprof-dr-katrin-hahn-laudenberg
Nina Simon
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nina Simon has been Junior Professor of German as a Foreign and Second Language with a focus on Cultural Studies at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig since April 1, 2021. She works from a socio-theoretical-reflexive perspective on issues related to the didactics of German (also) as a foreign and second language, (university) didactics, and cultural education, and has previously worked as a research assistant at the Foreign Language University of Baku, the Slavic University of Baku, the University of Bielefeld, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Bayreuth, as well as as an adjunct lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She studied German, German as a Second Language, Social Studies and Performing Arts at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and taught German as a Second Language at various schools. She received her doctorate with a thesis on the (im)possibility of (German) (university) didactics critical of domination.
for more information:
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/personenprofil/mitarbeiter/juniorprof-dr-nina-simon
Korcan Yeşil
Korcan Yeşil was a research associate in the team of Jun.-Prof. Katrin Hahn-Laudenberg since November 2021. He was instrumental in designing, planning and applying for the DAWLS project and led the implementation of the development phase. Prior to the DAWLS project, his work focused on adapting the teaching/learning materials from the LArS.nrw project for interdisciplinary courses with prospective teachers. Previously, Korcan Yeşil worked as a research assistant at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in the LArS.nrw project from October 2020 to November 2021.
After his studies in Düsseldorf (HHU) and Naples (UNI NA) in 2019 with the completion of the First Law Examination, he will follow his studies of the partial courses German Studies, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences in Wuppertal (BUW) with the degree M.Ed. (Gym/Ges) in March 2023. He started his teacher traineeship in NRW in May 2023.
Nicolas Rother
Nicolas Rother graduated from the Herder Institute in 2021 with a Bachelor's degree in German as a Second and Foreign Language. He is currently studying the postgraduate master's program there.
Since the beginning of his studies, he has had a special interest in the cultural studies aspects of the subject DaF/Z. This eventually developed into a focus on issues of discrimination-critical professionalization of teachers. He wrote his bachelor thesis on the representation of so-called guest and contract workers in orientation course textbooks.
Pursuing this interest further, he studied DaF/Z at the University of Vienna for one semester in the area of cultural studies and reflexive approaches with Prof. Dr. İnci Dirim, among others.
From October 2022 to May 2023 he was a research assistant in the DAWLS project. He was involved, among other things, in administrative activities and the planning of the course at the Herder Institute in SoSe 23.
Larissa Brauburger
Larissa Brauburger has been studying German as a foreign and second language at the Herder Institute since fall 2020. She is in the last semester of her Bachelor's program.
Previously, she completed a teacher training program in Giessen from 2016 to 2020. Due to her own experiences in teacher training, Larissa is committed to ensuring that topics such as diversity and discrimination critique receive more attention.
From the beginning of July until the end of August 2023, she will be part of the DAWLS project team as a research assistant, providing technical and organizational support and assisting with project publication.
Tom Wesolowski
Tom Wesolowski worked as a student assistant at the Center for Foreign Language Education in the DaF department at the Ruhr-University Bochum from November 2020 to December 2021. As his focus shifted towards didactics and language teaching research, he eventually switched from Spanish philology and comparative literature to German as a foreign and second language. From September 2022 to February 2023, he completed an internship at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada (UGR). There he was able to gain experience in teaching conception and assisted in various German courses. Since April 2023 he has been studying German as a foreign and second language at the Herder Institute.
From the beginning of July until the end of August 2023 he is part of the DAWLS project team as a student assistant.