Dr Heike Krösche, MA

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Assistant Professor

Phone: +43 512 507-44006
E-mail: Heike.Kroesche[at]uibk.ac.at
Room no. 40611

Office hours by appointment


Dr. Heike Krösche, MA
Research interests
  • Transition processes in historical-political education
  • Concepts for interdisciplinary teaching in historical and political education
  • Historical and political learning under the conditions of digital transformation
  • Power-critical and intersectional approaches
  • History of democracy, historical politics and cultures of remembrance
Studies and academic career
  • since 07/2025 Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
  • 03-07/2025 University Assistant at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
  • 2020-2025 University Assistant (Postdoc) in the field of "History and Political Education" at the Department of Subject Didactics, University of Innsbruck
- 2023-2025 Chairwoman of the Institute Assembly
- since 2023 Head of the "History and Civic Education" department
- 2021-2023 Organisation of the lecture series Didactics in the Evening
  • Winter semester 2022/23 Substitute professor for history and its didactics (focus: contemporary history) at the Department of Political Science and History at the Freiburg University of Education
  • 2016-2020 Contract university lecturer in the subjects "History, Social Studies and Political Education", "German" and "Sachunterricht" at the Private University College of Teacher Education of the Diocese of Linz
Tasks:
- Module leader in the Master's programme in Educational Sciences/elective module "Democracy Education in Schools"
- Deputy site group representative for the subject GSPB at the Linz site in the centre cluster
- Subject coordinator for the GSPB degree programme
  • 2014-2018 Lecturer at the PH Upper Austria
  • 2010-2017 German trainer for the Berufsreifeprüfung and apprenticeship with Matura at WIFI Upper Austria
  • 2010/2011 Research project assistant at the Wels City Archive
  • 2009 Doctorate, University of Oldenburg
  • 2008-2017 FH lecturer at the FH Oberösterreich Studienbetriebs GmbH, Campus Hagenberg and Campus Wels
  • 2008 Scientific project assistant at Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture OrganisationsGmbH
  • 2006 Freelance editor at veritas Bildungsverlag Linz
  • 2002 Research project assistant at the Department of History at the University of Oldenburg
- Project "eLearning and eTeaching in teacher training and further education" (Head: Prof. Dr Hilke Günther-Arndt)
  • Studied German Philology and History at the University of Oldenburg

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  • Intersektionalität. Perspektiven aus Geschichtswissenschaften und Geschichtsdidaktik. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Bd. 35 (2024), Heft 3 (with Levke Harders), https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/issue/view/701 (double blind peer review).
  • Neue Aufgabenkultur im Geschichtsunterricht? Theoretische Zugänge und empirische Befunde. Frankfurt/Main: Wochenschau 2023 (with Andrea Brait and Claus Oberhauser), (double blind peer review).
  • Zeit- und Krisenvorstellungen unter den Bedingungen des Anthropozäns. Reflexionen zu historisch-politischer Bildung im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik, Jg. 23 (2024), pp. 28-43 (with Philipp McLean and Christian Dorsch), (double blind peer review).
  • Schulische Partizipationsräume im Spannungsfeld von Selbst- und Fremdbestimmung. Der Beitrag gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Bildung zum Lernen aus schuldemokratischen Prozessen. In: Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Jg. 15 (2024) H. 1, pp. 18–35 (with Thomas Stornig), (double blind peer review).
  • Orientation in time and world through history and civic education: curricular frameworks and teachers’ perspectives in Austria. In: History Education Research Journal, 22(1), 27, 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.22.1.27, (double blind peer review).
  • Quellenarbeit revisited? Entwicklung und Erprobung von Erklärvideos 2.0 für historische Lernprozesse. In: Heuer, Christian; Marschnig, Georg; Breser, Britta (eds.): KunstGeschichte(n). Über die ästhetische Dimension der Geschichtskultur. Frankfurt/Main: Wochenschau 2025, pp. 237–254 (with Andrea Brait), (double blind peer review).
  • Historische Lernprozesse in Transitionen. Eine geschichtsdidaktische Annäherung zur Verschränkung von Theorie und Empirie. In: Nitsche, Martin; Yildirim, Lale; Barsch, Sebastian; Norden, Jörg van (eds.): Geschichtsdidaktisch forschen. Theorie und Empirie im Dialog. Frankfurt/Main: Wochenschau 2025, pp. 107–122, DOI: https://doi.org/10.46499/2528.
  • DIE Jugend – DIE Medien – DAS Wahlverhalten. Die Generation TikTok, populistische Netzkultur und die Aufgaben politischer Medienbildung. In: Hug, Theo; Missomelius, Petra; Pick, Ina; Schipflinger, Marie Sophie (eds.): Medien, Macht und Meinungsmache: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Wahlen im digitalen Zeitalter, Innsbruck: iup 2025, pp. 53–66.
  • Intersectionality and Dis/ability – a relationship determination from a history education perspective. In: Barsch, Sebastian; Rein, Franziska (eds.): Bridging History and Special Education. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Historical Thinking and Disabilities. Kiel: Universitätsverlag 2025, pp. 13–24, DOI: 10.38072/2703-0784/p58.

Research performance documentation

Erklärvideos 2.0: Teilprojekt im Rahmen von INNALP_Education Lab
gefördert durch die Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Duration: 2021-2024
Project management together with Andrea Brait

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Functions
  • Reviewer for the Review Board Faculty of Teacher Education (ethical issues in scientific research)
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Pädagogische Horizonte"
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal "Informationen zur Politischen Bildung"
  • Member of the expert commission for the declaration of suitability of teaching materials for the subject "History and Civic Education" (term of office 2022-2026)
  • Member (lead) of the subject curriculum working group "History and Civic Education" for the AHS upper secondary level
Memberships
  • Austrian Society for History Didactics (GDÖ)
  • Conference for History Didactics, Association of History Didactics in Germany (KGD)
- AK Early Historical Learning
- AK History Didactics Theoretical
  • Society for the Didactics of Subject Teaching (GDSU)
- GDSU working group "Civic education and democratic learning in the context of specialised didactics in subject teaching"
  • Political Education Interest Group (IGPB)
  • Member of the Research Platform of the Center for Gender Studies Innsbruck
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