Nico Leonhardt

Nico Leonhardt

Research Fellow

Inclusive Education and Participation in the Context of Intellectual Disabilities
Haus 5
Marschnerstraße 29d/e, Room 158
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 31556

Professional career

  • 04/2020 - 12/2023
  • since 08/2018
  • 10/2017 - 03/2020
  • 07/2016 - 11/2016
  • 03/2015 - 09/2017

Education

  • 09/2023 - 05/2025
    PhD at the Faculty of Education, Leipzig University
  • 10/2012 - 03/2015
    Master of Education - Special Needs Education
  • 10/2009 - 09/2012
    Bachelor of Science - Special Needs Education

Main areas of work and research interests:

Inclusive school development and social space orientation, inclusion-sensitive university development, participatory research and teaching, educational equity and AI, ableism-critical school and university development.

  • Inclusion in Social Space - School Development by Participatory, Democratic and Children-Rights-Based Student-Oriented Research
    Schuppener, Saskia
    Duration: 04/2020 – 12/2023
    Funded by: SMWK Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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  • Inklusionsorientierte Hochschulentwicklung: Qualifizierung von Bildungsfachkräften in Sachsen (QuaBiS)
    Schuppener, Saskia
    Duration: 08/2018 – 12/2022
    Funded by: SMWK Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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more projects

  • Leonhardt, N.; Kruschel, R.; Schuppener, S.; Hauser, M. (Eds.)
    Menschenrechte im interdisziplinären Diskurs: Perspektiven auf Diskriminierungsstrukturen und pädagogische Handlungsmöglichkeiten
    Weinheim & Basel: Beltz. 2022.
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  • Leonhardt, N.; Goldbach, A.; Staib, L. M.; Schuppener, S. (Eds.)
    Macht in der Schule. Wissen – Sichtweisen – Erfahrungen. Texte in Leichter Sprache, Einfacher Sprache und Fachsprache
    Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. 2023.
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  • Leonhardt, N.; Kruschel, R.; Schuppener, S.
    Über den Schulhof hinaus. Praxishandbuch für inklusive und sozialraumorientierte Bildung in herausfordernder Lage.
    Weinheim: Beltz. 2024.
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  • Leonhardt, N. (Ed.)
    Praxisbuch Ableismus in der Schule. Für einen neuen Umgang mit Behinderung und Fähigkeiten
    Weinheim & Basel: Beltz Pädagogik. 2024.
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  • Leonhardt, N.; Björnsdóttir, K.; Goldbach, A.; Smára, R.; Martick, S.; Schlothauer, B.
    The Diversity of Voices in Universities: A Critical Reflection on Representation Based on Two University Projects in Iceland and Germany
    British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 2024.
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more publications

  • Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
    ‚Partizipative Lehre und Inklusive Bildung im international vergleichenden Kontext‘ (Projektkooperation mit Universidad National de Cordobá/Argentinien)
    Start Date of Collaboration: 26/06/2024
    External participating organisations: Universidad National de Cordobá (Cordobá, Argentina)
    Involved persons: Leonhardt, Nico; Ortuzar, Silvia; Giovine, Manuel
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more cooperations

  • Fachtag
    "Inklusive Praxis in Leipzig und Umgebung" 2.0
    Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
    Event Organiser: Leonhardt, Nico; Kruschel, Robert; Schuppener, Saskia; Klein, Damaris; Leipold, Claudia; Braunreuther, Antje
    11/03/2020
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  • Veranstaltungsreihe
    Menschenrechte - Diskriminierung - Demokratisierung
    Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät
    Event Organiser: Schuppener, Saskia; Leonhardt, Nico; Kruschel, Robert; Hauser, Mandy; Zehle, Jana
    25/04/2019 – 04/12/2019
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  • Fachtag
    Inklusive Praxis in Leipzig und Umgebung. Schulen auf dem Weg
    Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
    Event Organiser: Leonhardt, Nico; Kruschel, Robert; Schuppener, Saskia; Klein, Damaris; Leipold, Claudia; Braunreuther, Antje
    13/03/2019
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  • Onlinetagung
    Inclusive education internationally – Comparing the Education Systems of Germany and Iceland
    Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
    Event Organiser: Leonhardt, Nico; Kruschel, Robert
    19/02/2021 – 20/02/2021
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Topics in teaching (especially within the QuaBIS/FriLeFT project):

Inclusive higher education, participatory research & teaching, inclusive practice,

social space orientation, inclusive school development, power in schools, participation

and work, self-determination, empowerment, disability studies,

ableism, heterogeneity/dimensions of heterogeneity, easy and simple

language, disability caused by the disability support system, participation of

students, intersectionality, classism, educational inequality, technology and ableism, social media and assisted communication, etc.


2017 - 2020 Teaching at wAL/ Special Education Department on the following topics:

Inclusion/integration; inclusive school development; history of special education; easy language; participatory research; inclusion-sensitive higher education; international developments in the field of inclusion; history, forms and developments of inclusive education; cooperative learning; Syndrome-specific approaches and discussions (including Down syndrome & complex impairments); basic concepts of school pedagogy; working with parents; children's rights in schools; democracy education.

  • Inclusive Education for All in a District with Special Development Needs – Challenges and Opportunities from the Perspective of Local Stakeholders

  • Inclusion in the social space - Education for all in a district with special development needs

  • 03/2018 Helping to shape lifelong educational processes of people with complex disabilities - Research workshop to develop action-leading ideas

    Workshop together with Prof. Annett Thiele at the conference of the Leben Pur Foundation "Participation and Sharing - People with complex disabilities enrich our society