Astrid Rank

Astrid Rank (* 3. July 1969 in Kelheim as Astrid White ) is a German teacher. She is the holder of the chair for elementary school education at the University of Regensburg .

Career

From 1989 to 1993 Rank studied at the University of Regensburg for teaching at primary schools and then taught for seven years at primary schools in the Kelheim area. After additional training in Montessori pedagogy , she completed her doctorate from 2005 to 2007 at the University of Regensburg on the subject of subjective theories of educators on pre-school learning and written language acquisition . At the same time, from 2004 to 2005 she was a lecturer at the chair for primary school education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , where she also worked in the research group “Boys in Primary School”. After completing her doctorate, she stayed as an assistant at the University of Regensburg until 2011. In addition, Rank took on a substitute professorship for literacy and multilingualism at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the 2009/10 winter semester . From 2011 on, she held the chair for primary school education at the University of Koblenz-Landau . Since 2014 she has held the chair for elementary school education at the University of Regensburg.

Rank is married, has three children and lives with her family in Kelheim.

Research priorities

Astrid Rank's research focuses on:

• Knowledge and action - transfer
• Language education in factual situations / educational language
• Competence development (especially in the context of heterogeneity and inclusion )
• Education for sustainable development (especially ecology and economy )
• Effectiveness of training and further training for teachers
• Located learning

Publications (selection)

• Boys talk about fathers , in: Klaudia Schultheis , Gabriele Strobel-Eisele, Thomas Fuhr (eds.): Children: Gender male - Educational boy research , Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, pp. 170-185, ISBN 978-3170191006
• Subjective theories of educators on pre-school learning and written language acquisition , Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin , 2008, ISBN 978-3-86573-349-8
• Teacher training for support diagnostics in the acquisition of written language: a measure for an education without breaks? in: Diemut Kucharz (Ed.): Basic education without breaks, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2010
• Knowledge and action in teacher training: a teaching project to build up application-related knowledge , in: Frank Hellmich (Ed.): Conditions of teaching and learning in primary schools: Balance and Perspectives, Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2012
• Economic issues in primary schools , Joachim Herz Foundation , Hamburg 2014
• (As editor, together with Anja Wildemann): Language on transition , Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8440-2424-1
• Magdalena Sonnleitner, Stefan Prock, Astrid Rank, Petra Kirchhoff (eds.): Video and audiography of lessons in teacher training , Verlag Barbara Budrich , Opladen & Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-4956-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Astrid Rank in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Astrid Rank on the website of the University of Regensburg
• Publications by Astrid Rank on the website of the University of Regensburg
• Curriculum Vitae on the website of the University of Koblenz-Landau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louisa Knobloch: From the classroom to the lecture hall , www.mittelbayerische.de , February 11, 2015
2. ↑ Jutta Göller: The teachers of tomorrow are your topic , www.mittelbayerische.de , August 28, 2015