University School, Inclusion and ALSO - Courses in the field of education­knowledge­sciences (summer semester 2026)

In the summer semester 2026, the Chair of Education / Inclusive Education (EWIB) will be offering the lectures "General Didactics" and "Designing Schools and Teaching in an Inclusion-Sensitive Way" as well as seminars on various aspects of inclusion and empirical educational research for teacher training students (see overview below). The staff of the Chair EWIB contribute their experience from the following projects:

• Dresden University School trial (USD),
• Alternative teacher training program ALSO,
• and Qualification of Education and Inclusion Officers (QuaBIS).

© Forschungsstelle Universitätsschule (ForUS) / TU Dresden

In addition, there are the opportunities for applied educational research at the University School Dresden (see also poster on the right) and the semester-long school internship for a close and early theory-practice link in the teacher training course. These two projects of the Chair EWIB combine the topics of school development and professional development in an innovative way.

The course catalog of the Center for Teacher Education, School and Vocational Training Research (ZLSB) contains an overview of the courses in the subject of educational science. Further information can be found in the
Study and course offerings of the Faculty of Education (EW). Selected seminars are also open to interested students from other faculties as part of the Studium Generale.

Courses offered by the Chair of Education / Inclusive Education

Lectures

• Lecture - General didactics

  Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Anke Langner
  The lecture focuses on the inherent logic and structure of teaching. What theoretical models of teaching exist and what can they contribute to the successful teaching of heterogeneous groups? In addition to didactic models, the lecture deals with relationship structures in the classroom, teaching elements and forms of critical reflection on one's own teaching, as well as the question of how to design tailor-made teaching and learning arrangements for all students.

Accompanying seminars to the lecture

• Seminar - Teaching and general didactics

  Teacher: Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir

  What is general didactics? Why do we need a school for all? And what challenges, but also opportunities, do inclusive school concepts offer? This seminar deals with general didactic theories and models and the question of how the empirical heterogeneity of student groups can be translated into internally differentiated and cooperative teaching-learning spaces.

Seminars related to the University School Dresden

• Seminar - Research at the university school
  Teaching staff: Prof. Dr. Anke Langner, Wiebke Lydia Bergjürgen and Hannah Bartels
  In the seminar, research activities at the University School Dresden are presented and partly carried out at the school itself. Evaluation strategies will also be developed. In the course of the seminar there is the possibility to prepare state examination theses in the field of educational science.
  The report Students design the "School of the future" - Future workshop in the block seminar "Research at the University School" from the winter semester 2025/26 offers an insight into a past event.
  Literature:

  • Langner, A. & Heß, M. (2020). The University School Dresden - the school concept. In M. Heinrich & G. Klewin (eds.), Founding publication Verbund Universitäts- und Versuchsschulen. WE_OS yearbook 2020.
    Available online at https://www.biejournals.de/index.php/we_os/article/view/3340

  • Langner, Anke; Ritter, Matthias; Pesch, Marlis (2020): The real-world laboratory University School Dresden - Research methodological basics. In: PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung - Zeitschrift für Schul- und Professionsentwicklung 2 (1), pp. 23-48.
    Available online at https://www.pflb-journal.de/index.php/pflb.

• Seminar - Research methods: Developing and testing material with students
  Teacher: Dr. Marlis Pesch
  In the seminar, research methods for students are developed in the context of project lessons and tested at the University School Dresden.
  To the report on the seminar in summer semester 2025

Accompanying seminar for the semester-accompanying school internship (ALSO)

• Seminar - Research-based learning in the semester-accompanying internship

  Teacher: Katja Kuritz and Prof. Dr. Anke Langner
  This seminar accompanies the Alternative Lehramtspraktikum A (ALSO) at schools in Eastern Saxony to provide a closer link between theory and practice at the beginning of the teacher training program.
  Further information can be found in the news on the start of enrollment and on the project website Theory-Practice Interlocking with ALSO.

Seminars with a focus on inclusive education

• Seminar - Introduction to Braille: theory and practice
  Teacher: Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir
  The seminar aims to familiarize students with Braille used by the blind and visually impaired. Students learn tactile Braille, explore the history and present of this cultural technique developed by Louis Braille in 1825 and deal with disability and the inclusion of students with visual impairments and blindness.

• Seminar - Methods of qualitative social research

  Teacher: Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir

  The seminar is aimed in particular at students who want to familiarize themselves with the basics of qualitative social research with a view to the state examination thesis. We will discuss research ideas together and in groups, develop questions and research design, plan, conduct, process and evaluate focus group discussions. We will apply Philipp Mayring's qualitative content analysis - a method that can also be used to evaluate various interview techniques.

• Seminar - Researching together

  Teacher: Karin Mannewitz

  Participatory research aims to critically question power structures and interpretative sovereignty and to enable equal participation in the research process. The focus is on the conviction that all participants have valuable experiences and skills that serve as a basis for joint research. In this seminar, we will conduct active research. This means that we will develop a research question together as a group and systematically investigate it over the course of the seminar. All participants are not only learners, but also research partners who open up new knowledge from their individual perspectives and contribute to the joint acquisition of knowledge. Together, we create an open and inclusive space in which diverse experiences are heard, reflected upon and integrated into the research process. The seminar will be held in cooperation with the education and inclusion advisors of the QuaBIS team at TU Dresden.