Gäste & Kooperationen
Gastprofessor:innen
Dr. Maria Ahlholm from University of Helsinki
Dr. Maria Ahlholm is visiting the DiVER group from 5th February to 30th April 2024. Maria is a lecturer in Finnish language, with specification in Applied Linguistics, and she works as a Senior University Lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki. For this semester, she is on research leave and working for the project Migdia (Migration, transnational educational paths, and diasporic plurilingualism). In Migdia, Maria and her colleagues observe Arabic students attending heritage language classes, and their emerging second language (Finnish). Maria Ahlholm is also part of a Nordic QuiCC team, which compares different Nordic school systems' ways of including the newcomers and language-aware teaching.
Bee Leng Chu from Nanyang Technological University
Bee Leng Chua has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the Conference of the German Association for Educational Research in Halle. She combines this with a visit to LiDS from 14 to 22 March 2024. Bee Leng Chua is President of the World Education Research Association (WERA), the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) and Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). She is a founding member of the NIE's Mediated Learning Laboratory – an organisation that aims to advance the use and application of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) and Dynamic Assessment (DA) for educational research and to support the translation of research findings into practical guidance for teaching professionals at local and global levels. The focus of her work is on training teachers to become "reflective practitioners" with a strong professional identity.
Prof. Larissa Aronin from Oranim Academic College of Education
Prof. Larissa Aronin is visiting us from April 1 to July 31, 2024 and is a guest in the working group "Didactics of Romance Languages" (EW4). Larissa Aronin is Associate Professor at the Oranim Academic College of Education in Israel. She is the former director and a founding member of the International Association of Multilingualism. Her areas of interest include multilingualism, multilingualism acquisition and teaching, material culture of multilingualism, identity, intercultural and multicultural and diversity studies, complexity and language contact.
Prof. Abdelmajid Naceur from the University of Tunis
Prof. Abdelmajid Naceur is a guest lecturer at the Department of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning from the beginning of April to the end of July 2024. His stay is funded by the DAAD. Abdelmajid Naceur completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Psychology at Bielefeld University. His research interests include the psychology of learning and motivation. In his dissertation, he investigated the topic of "Learning and motivational strategies with text comprehension".
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Arpacı from Mimar Fine Arts University (Turkey)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Arpacı completed his Ph.D. at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (in Turkey) at Sociology Department. He has been a postdoctoral guest researcher at the Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Education at the University of Hamburg since 22 September 2021.
His research interests are sociology of body, gender, sociology of family, ethnicity studies, sociology of childhood and international migration. His research title at the University of Hamburg is “Transformation of Family Habitus of Turkish Workers in Germany: A Case Study in Hamburg”.
JProf. Dr. Melanie Bangel from Universität Bielefeld (Germany)
Melanie Bangel is juniorprofessor for german language didactics at Universität Bielefeld. Her Researchinterests are morphology, acquisition of reading and writing and language didactics.
Prof. Dr. Alisa Belzer from Rutgers Graduate School of Education (USA)
Alisa Belzer, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
Focused largely on adult literacy education, her research includes study of policy, professional development, and learner experience. Belzer’s interest in the field stem from her early experience working as an adult literacy practitioner, during which she was inspired to gain a greater understanding of adult literacy students, teaching, curriculum, and assessment, as a means of improving the quality of instruction.
Assoc. Prof. Carole Bloch (South Africa)
Carole Bloch is Associate Professor in Early Language and Literacy at the University of the Western Cape. Since 2012, Prof. Bloch has directed Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA). PRAESA is a non-government multilingual language and literacy organisation.
Her work and research interests are in multilingual education involving transformative early childhood pedagogies, including Froebelian approaches, meaning based early literacy, storybook and materials development and literacy cultural practices. Her current interest is in integrative neuroscience and literacy.
Prof. Dr. Doria Daniels from Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Prof. Dr. Doria Danials is Professor in the department of educational Psychology. Her resarch interests are in adult learning theory and support.
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller from Macquarie University Sydney (Australia)
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has held appointments in several universities around the globe (e.g. Germany, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates an USA).
Ingrid Piller is an applied sociolinguist with research expertise in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. She has published, lectured and consulted widely in these areas. She is editor of the sociolinguistics portal Language on the Move, through wich many of her publications (and those of her team) can be accessed.
Prof. Dr. Esther Prins from Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Prof. Dr. Esther Prins research employs critical and sociocultural theories to examine adult and family literacy, adult basic education, rural adult education, and participatory approaches to education, community development, and research. In particular, her scholarship explores the "wider benefits" of adult education and how adult education reproduces and/or mitigates inequities rooted in race/ethnicity, class, gender, and immigration status.
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Smythe from Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Smythe works at the intersections of adult literacy, digital equity and community-based learning. Her current research program explores new technologies, literacies and digital justice in community-based adult learning settings.
Doktorand:innen
Nuo Hou from Shanxi University
Hou Nuo is a PhD candidate and visiting scholar from China supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck. During her master's degree, she majored in sociology at Shanxi University. Now, her research interest is about intergenerational relationship, social inequality, youth education, family studies and quantitative analysis. To be more specific, she mainly focuses on the effect of grandparents on the children’s education among multigenerational co-residence households, which can be found in China.
Abdullah Atmacasoy from Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Abdullah Atmacasoy is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Middle East Technical University and a visiting researcher in DivER from October 2020 to September 2022 in the Department of General, Intercultural, and International Comparative Education. In his dissertation research, he is working on the language education for newly arrived migrant students in their transition to national education systems in monolingual settings.
He is awarded to DAAD Research Grant and the Technological and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) 2214-A Research Grant for his doctoral dissertation research. He is interested in research on developing effective curriculum and instructional strategies in low-resource contexts and for youth with migration background. He has 10 years of teaching experience and serves as the editor of Refugee Review, a publication of the ESPMI (Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues) Network.
For more information, please visit https://abdullahatmacasoy.com