Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2022
  Senior Lecturer in Social Science Education
• 01/2021 - 04/2022
  Researcher at the Centre for teacher education at the university of Bamberg
• 07/2015 - 12/2020
  Lecturer at the Institute of Educational Science at Leipzig University
• 07/2012 - 07/2015
  Social Science teacher at Ernst-Brlach-Gesamtschule in Dinslaken
• 02/2008 - 07/2012
  Lecturer at the Departement of History (history didactics) at Leipzig UniversityAt the same time, I received my doctorate on the subject of the emergence of the Saxon school supervisory board in the late 19th / early 20th century.
• 02/2006 - 01/2008
  Traineeship in Oberhausen

Education

• 10/1999 - 07/2005
  Studies in History, political science and educational science at the universities of Leipzig and Stockholm

• Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence - "The European Union and Its Rural Periphery in East Central Europe"

  Lorenz, Astrid

  Duration: 10/2020 – 04/2024

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie; Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
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• Pedagogical competences in the digital age: case orientation and social hypertext in the introductory educational science module

  Hallitzky, Maria

  Duration: 10/2019 – 09/2020

  Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• Individualization and Collectivisation in Classroom: Comparative Videobased-Interpretative Lesson Inquiry in Germany and Japan

  Hallitzky, Maria

  Duration: 04/2017 – 12/2020

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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Courses

• Introduction into social science education
• Practical training for teacher students in social science education
• Methodological issues of teaching and learning in social science education
• Europe in social science education
• (Political) Narratives and their meaning for social science education

Teaching Philosophy

Probably the greatest importance of the subject social studies lies in the education towards maturity (Theodor W. Adorno). In order to meet this requirement, I try to implement a high degree of personal activity and personal responsibility in my courses.

Since not only the content of the respective seminars is relevant in subject didactic or pedagogical contexts, but the course per se is the subject of the learning process, the recognition and reflection of the meta-level is permanently at the center of my efforts.

I would like to name a third focus with the connectivity of the knowledge or skills learned. In addition to the relevance for practical school lessons, I am primarily concerned with the question: "What does all this have to do with me?" Because without a connection between the person of the learner and the respective content, no sustainable learning takes place. It is all the more important at this point to name self-determination, learning from experience and ultimately maturity as the goal and basis of my teaching-learning philosophy.

• Europe in Social Science lessons

• Political Narratives in Social Science lessons

• Introduction to the didactics of Social Science Education

• Methods of Social Science Education

• teacher training for social science teachers