Katja Koch (school teacher)

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Katja Koch (* 1970 ) is a German school educator and university teacher for elementary school education .

Life

Katja Koch completed courses in German , history and educational science at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1990 to 1995 and received her doctorate in 2001 with a dissertation on the subject of “Transitions to Secondary School” as a scholarship holder of the Hessian Graduate Fund . From 2002 to 2008 she worked as a research assistant at the educational seminar of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences there in 2008 on the acquisition of a second language by primary school children with a language other than German. From 2008 she was in charge of the professorship for school pedagogy at the Institute for Educational Science at the TU Braunschweig and in 2010 became Professor for School Pedagogy at the Institute for Educational Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig . From 2013 to 2018 she was the Dean of Studies in Faculty 6 of the university. In April 2018 she was appointed by the Senate as Vice President of the Presidium of the TU Braunschweig and deals with questions of teacher training and knowledge transfer. In 2020 it was confirmed in the Presidium until 2022. She took on further activities as chair of the elementary school pedagogy commission of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) and co-editor of the Educational Science Review (EWR). Her research deals with the problem of the matching relationship between the individual and the institution and the resulting educational challenges as well as empirical school and educational research.

Publications (selection)

  • 2001: Dissertation: Transitions to Secondary School
  • 2007: together with Christina Krause, Yvonne Manning, Johanna Fütterer: redesign elementary education. Handbook for further training for educators aged 45 and over. Goettingen
  • 2008: Habilitation thesis: Second language acquisition by primary school children of non-German language of origin in the context of institutional support services.
  • 2012: Second language acquisition at the transition from elementary to primary, Utzverlag, ISBN 978-3831640614

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b TU Braunschweig: Senate confirms four members of the Presidium , March 14, 2018
  2. ↑ April 27, 2011 | Press releases: Heads, inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Katja Koch, do you already speak German or do we still have to support you? Multilingualism as a Challenge for Educational Institutions, Zur Person , April 27, 2011
  3. ↑ Senate confirms four members of the Presidium: Prof. Knut Baumann and Prof. Manfred Krafczyk newly elected, Prof. Katja Koch and Prof. Peter Hecker confirmed for a further two years , magazin.tu-braunschweig.de, January 23, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school pedagogue and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1970