Barbro Walker

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Barbro Jorid Britta Walker (* 1968 ) is a German educator. She is a professor for childhood education at the University of Applied Education in Berlin .

Career

Walker studied education from 1988 to 1992 , teaching at primary schools and psychology in Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt . After her legal clerkship , she passed the second state examination for teaching qualifications in 1995 and obtained a diploma in educational science in 1996. In 2003 she did her doctorate phil. She worked as a research assistant at Gabriele Faust and Jörg Schlömerkemper and from 1998 to 2002 she was regional director of the German doctoral network THESIS. In parallel to her work as a teacher and mentor for trainee teachers in the school service of the state of Hesse, she was a specialist advisor for neuroscience and learning at the state school authority in Darmstadt from 2008 to 2012 . From 2010 to 2013 she was a lecturer for educational professionals at the Union for Education and Science. In 2011, Walker was delegated to the Hessian Ministry of Culture to conduct a qualification measure for teachers, social pedagogues and daycare professionals on the subject of "self-regulatory skills". From 2014 to 2017, Walker was an academic assistant and post-doctoral candidate at the Institute for Education for Children and Adolescents at the University of Koblenz-Landau , and from 2015 also lecturer at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Education in Heidelberg . Since 2017 she has been Professor of Childhood Education at the University of Applied Education in Berlin and Head of the Childhood Education course.

Research priorities

Walker deals with the neuroscientific and pedagogical-anthropological basics of learning processes in childhood (0-10 years) as well as with the development and importance of self-regulatory skills in preschool age. Another focus of her work is learning and behavioral difficulties in preschool and elementary school age, whereby the problem of medicalization through diagnostic categories and constructs is considered. Walker also takes a critical look at learning and neuromyths in education, including esoteric and / or pseudo-scientific support approaches and therapies for children such as B. " Brain-Gym ", " KiSS " or " Indigo Children " apart. She deals with the learning and developmental psychology of childhood, with the development of social cognitions in the focus of her interest. The quality of teaching in primary schools is another focus of their work.

Functions

Walker is a member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) and the German Association of Universities (DHV). She is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP). Until 2017 she was editor and reviewer of the journal for primary school research .

Publications (selection)

  • Barbro Walker: Orientation Learning Experiences for Primary School Teacher Students. In: L-News, magazine for student teachers , Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M. 1998, No. 6, pp. 31-33.
  • Jörg Schlömerkemper with the collaboration of Eva Pelkner, Barbro Walker u. a .: School program and evaluation in Hessen. Workshop report on the scientific support of a project of the Hessian Ministry of Culture . In: peDOCS, 2002.
  • Barbro Walker: Edu-Kinestetik - an educational path to salvation? A critical analysis. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2004. ISBN 978-3828886827 .
  • Barbro Walker: Education about pseudoscientific educational practices nationwide inadequate. In: Skeptics. Journal of Science and Critical Thinking , No. 3, 2007, p. 136.
  • Barbro Walker: No education. Doubtful offers on the learning aid market. In: Hessische Lehrerzeitung , No. 1, 2008, p. 27.
  • Barbro Walker: “Alternative” therapies - new salvators for childhood learning and behavioral difficulties? In: Religious instruction at vocational schools , No. 1, 2012, p. 10f.
  • Christ, U. / Walker, B. (2012): Individual support in primary schools. In: Hessisches Kultusministerium (Hrsg.): Individual support - individualized learning. Orientation principles for dealing with heterogeneity in teaching and school development , 2012, pp. 119–121.
  • Barbro Walker: Talented Scanner Personalities? Myths and facts about giftedness . In: Skeptics. Journal of Science and Critical Thinking , March 2014, pp. 139f.
  • Barbro Walker: The Esoteric Seduction. Questionable therapies for behavioral problems. In: Hessische Lehrerzeitung , November 2014, p. 22f.
  • Barbro Walker: Self-Regulatory Skills. In: SchulVerwaltung. Magazine for school development and school management. Edition Bavaria. Issue 05/2016, vol. 39 Wolters Kluver Verlag 2016, pp. 151–153.
  • Barbro Walker: Baby Sign Language - An Advisable Approach? In: Kita aktuell , January 2018, pp. 13-14.
  • Barbro Walker: Early Education on the Rise. In: Yearbook of the technical youth leisure and education society tjfbg . Berlin 2018. p. 130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who-is-HU. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Barbro Walker | Teachers | The University University of Applied Education. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b GWUP - The Skeptics - Prof. Dr. Barbro Walker. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Early encouragement is critical to developing self-control | Early Education Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kinesiology: Humbug from School. September 14, 2015, accessed on June 12, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Edu-Kinestetik: Easier learning through movement . November 13, 2015 ( br.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Bernd Kramer: School Lessons: Magic for the Brain . In: The time . August 11, 2011, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed June 12, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Barbro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Barbro Jorid Britta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and professor for childhood education
DATE OF BIRTH 1968