Research priorities and projects

Our research focuses and projects are just as colorful and diverse as our teaching offerings.

ESD at primary schools in Saxony

The focus of Sebastian Lehmann's doctoral project is on questions about the current implementation and anchoring of education for sustainable development in Saxon primary schools.

Child and forest

The students' ideas about forests in the context of ESD are the focus of Isabell Dietze-Fründt's doctoral project.

Bild zeigt sechs Reihen aus bunten Papierschnittfiguren auf grauem Hintergrund in LGBT Regenbogenfarben.

Political education in Saxony

Stefanie Kirchner's doctoral project aims to contribute to research into the professionalism of primary school teachers in the field of political education.

Situations of questioning

Children's issues in everyday science classes were the focus of Tina Krauß' dissertation, which she successfully defended on July 19, 2021 in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at TU Dresden.

Future Workshop on Sustainable Education (Original: ZuNaBi)

For the first time, an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional and cross-teaching university learning workshop explicitly on the topic of ESD is being created at a German university.

Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group

Mr. Quy Don Mac, research assistant at the Chair of Elementary Education/Science Teaching, has been an associated member of the 3rd Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group since March 2019.

TUD-Sylber

As part of the quality offensive for teacher training by the federal and state governments, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) promotes the institutional and content-related further development of teacher training at the TU Dresden.

Naturbild

Naturbild is a multilateral COMENIUS project that was funded by the EU as part of the Lifelong Learning Program over a period of two years (2008–2010).

Bringing research to the outside world

We regularly take part in scientific symposia and conferences and publish our research findings in relevant specialist books and journals.