Academic Programs and Teaching
The Media Education and Digital Literacy department coordinates the teacher training programme for the subject of "Digital Basic Education" in the West joint degree programme.
The path to the final thesis (Bachelor, Master)
If you are writing your Bachelor's thesis as part of the teacher training programme "Digital Basic Education", this process is closely linked to the course "Seminar with Bachelor's thesis" (5 ECTS, offered in the summer semester). You will be supported in all processes there. At the beginning of the semester, the focus is on organising supervision and finding a suitable topic or research question.
The following documents can be helpful here:
- Guidelines: BA theses "Digital basic education"
- Process on the way to the Bachelor's thesis in the subject "Digital Basic Education"
Suggestions for topics and supervision
This collection of topics for theses provides an overview and inspiration for developing your own research question as well as an orientation as to who might be suitable for supervision. If you are interested in one of the topics listed or are pursuing a similar research idea, please contact the person directly. The topics are reformulated each academic year.
The proposed topics can be viewed here:
I supervise bachelor theses with a media studies, cultural studies and (especially qualitative) empirical orientation (e.g. discourse analysis, ethnographic orientations, qualitative content analyses, qualitative research on multimodal materials, visual communication, online communication, gaming; mixed methods approaches; autoethnographic approaches, e.g. reflection work on previous teaching experiences in the context of internships, etc.) and their respective interfaces to theoretical and practical aspects of the subject "Digital Basic Education".
I supervise theses in the field of tension between subject-specific topics and the general/didactic implementation of "digital basic education" in schools and lessons. Theses can also deal with analyses explicitly relating to the "Digital Basic Education" curriculum (including international comparisons, educational policy discussions). Specific media phenomena or social challenges in digitality with a focus on media education, basic Computer Science education and media didactics can also be analysed. These include, for example: Education/inequalities in digitality, education for sustainable development and media education, digital-capitalist structures and EdTech in schools and much more.
Theses that I primarily supervise in the context of digital basic education are in the specialist areas/interfaces of digital learning games, AI-supported teaching concepts (e.g. AI-supported maths teaching), didactics of Computer Science, privacy decisions, augmented and virtual reality, simulation-based learning and digital tools (e.g. in language or art lessons). Analyses of curricular requirements or critical-reflective work on media education, digitality and school practice are also possible.
Work relating to the genesis and implementation of the basic digital education curriculum is supervised, as well as fundamental media science topics such as current media cultural phenomena, media practices and media and technology-related discourses.
I supervise theses in the field of computer science didactics, in particular on artificial intelligence in schools, its use in the classroom and related didactic issues. Preference is given to practice-integrating theses (e.g. material development or teaching experiments) that derive their questions from current scientific discourse. The combination of theoretical foundation and practical application is in the foreground; pure literature work is less desirable.