The professorship introduces itself
The junior professorship for nutrition and home economics and the didactics of the professional field is responsible for teacher training in the professional field of nutrition and home economics. Both subject-related and vocational didactic aspects play a role in research and teaching.
Teaching and supervision tasks are mainly carried out as part of the teacher training course at vocational schools in the vocational field of food, nutrition and home economics (LEH). We also participate in the courses offered as part of the supplementary studies for degree courses with a state final examination and in the student-organized lecture series “Ecological Sustainability”. Further information on the courses offered by the structural unit can be found on the “Studies” tab.
Our overarching subject of research is the professional field of nutrition and home economics and the corresponding professional didactics. We are primarily concerned with questions about the possible design of socio-ecological food systems and the skills required by the individual actors. Several qualification theses are supervised at the junior professorship. Further information on the research of the structural unit can be found on the “Research” tab.
We actively transfer the scientific findings of our work into an applied context and make them available to (civil) society. Further information on the transfer services of the structural unit can be found on the “Transfer” tab.
Holder of the professorship
The professorship was initially held as a Junior Professorship from 01.06.2020 to 31.03.2025 and since 01.04.2025 as a Chair, occupied by Prof.in Dr.in Jana Markert.
Jana Markert studied Nutritional Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Université II de Montpellier (France). She wrote her diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. Her practical work in schools focuses on vocational education. From 2010 to 2015, she worked at the Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) for Adoposity Diseases at the University of Leipzig. In 2014, she completed her doctorate at Justus Liebig University Giessen on the prevention of obesity in children and adolescents. One year later, she switched to teacher training. From 2018 to 2020, she researched and taught as a junior professor for the didactics of business, technology, household and social affairs with a special focus on professional participation and inclusion at Leipzig University. Since June 2020, she has been a junior professor for nutrition and home economics and the didactics of the vocational field at the TUD Dresden University of Technology. She was appointed Extraordinary Professor in October 2022. She is a trained systemic consultant and holds the HDS university didactics certificate.