Helga Theunert

Helga Theunert (* 1951 in Schrobenhausen ) is honorary professor for media education at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig .

Together with Bernd Schorb, Theunert publishes the specialist media education journal merz (medien + education) and is the editor of the Interdisciplinary Discourses series. She completed her studies in pedagogy, psychology and sociology with a master's thesis and doctorate. From 1977 she was a research assistant at the JFF - Institute for Media Education , from 1980 to 2009 head of the research department of the JFF, from 1994 to 2009 scientific director of the JFF and from 2009 to October 2010 director of the JFF; she continues to work scientifically for the JFF. Her work focuses on research on media appropriation for children and young people in social contexts, methods of qualitative research and the transfer of scientific findings into educational materials.

Together with Bernd Schorb , she has developed approaches of subject- based, media-pedagogical research. Their jointly developed concept of contextual understanding of media inclination is central . Media appropriation is understood as the “process of using, perceiving, evaluating and processing media from the perspective of the subjects, taking into account their life contexts - including media”.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Theunert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imprint
2. ^ Employees of the JFF
3. ↑ Schorb, Bernd; Theunert, Helga (2000): Contextual understanding of media appropriation. In: Paus-Hasebrink, Ingrid; Schorb, Bernd (Hg.): Qualitative children and youth media research. Theory and methods: a workbook. Munich: kopaed, pp. 33–57. ISBN 978-3934079120