Garagenaufgang zwischen dem AD und D4 Gebäude

Studies & Teaching

The courses of the Education Sciences Group offer a theory-driven, knowledge-based and scientific access to a wide variety of pedagogical questions and subjects on schooling for the masterprogramm Business Education.

  • Elementary questions of pedagogical and educational theory

  • Basic pedagogical concepts

  • Theory and history of pedagogy and education

  • Sociological questions of education

  • Educational psychology

  • Research methods in qualitative educational research

  • Pedagogical theories of learning

  • Theories of pedagogical-professional (teacher) practice

  • Occupational field research

  • Inequality and education

  • Educational poverty and exclusion

  • Education in the context of migration, interculturalism and globalization

  • Scientific/academic writing

Current Courses

On the electronic course catalog page, you will find the current courses offered by our group, including detailed course descriptions.

Link to the electronic course catalog

Please note that courses from the other semester are not accessible in this selection.

Each Summer semester

  • Academic/Scientific Work & Research Methods

  • Education Studies II

Each Winter semester

  • Education Studies I

  • Education Studies III

  • Research Proposal

  • Business Education I

  • Course II - Study and Job. Reflections on your Career and (future) Positioning. Developmental and Socio-analytical Considerations

Teaching Awards

The group's team members have received the following awards for their teaching:

  • Award for Innovative Teaching 2016 for the course concept "Educational Issues I+II" (Jan Christoph Heiser)

  • Nomination for "Excellent Teaching 2016" (Christoph Heiser)

  • Excellent Teaching 2014 for the course "Educational Poverty and Exclusion" (Marie Gitschthaler)

  • Award for "Innovative Course Concepts and Designs 2007" (Erna Nairz-Wirth)