An introduction to the Chair of General Education

Welcome to the website of the Chair of General Education. Here you will find information on studying, teaching and research activities in the field of general education.

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Wichtige Themen im Überblick

Holder of the Chair

Here you will find information on Professor Dr. Carsten Heinze's academic career and research priorities.

Das Foto zeigt einen weißen Schreibtisch von oben, an welchem eine Person auf einer Tastatur tippt. Auf dem Tisch liegen außerdem eine weiße Computer-Maus, ein Smartphone und eine gelbe Armbanduhr.

Staff

Here, you can find all the contact information from the staff members of the Chair.

Lessons

Here, you can find information about the lessons at the Chair of General Education in the Wintersemester 2023/24.

Chair of General Education

The core content of the Chair focuses on the reconstruction and critical reflection of the problem of under what conditions a social practice can be described as pedagogical and under what social conditions it is recognized or questioned in its logic.

In this context, it is important to examine the constitutive conditions of pedagogical knowledge in the disciplinary and social context and to analyze the pedagogical-anthropological framing of subject formation. Education, learning and socialization are understood as processes of subjectivation, through which a space of possibility is opened up in order to understand oneself as a subject and to be able to take action.

The critical observation of the social mediation of this process in pedagogical institutions, the question of the constitutive principles of a practice of pedagogical action that enables educators to act democratically, as well as the examination of the role of educational science in overcoming social challenges and conflicts are three essential aspects in this context.