Silke Traub

Silke Traub (* 1964 in Reutlingen ) is a German educational scientist, university lecturer and specialist book author.

Life

After completing a teaching degree and postgraduate studies at the PH Weingarten (1984–1990), Traub initially worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1999 she received her doctorate for a thesis on the effectiveness of teacher training measures. After working at the PH Weingarten and PH Schwäbisch Gmünd, she was offered a professorship for school pedagogy and general didactics at the Karlsruhe University of Education in 2007 . Since 2010 she has been in charge of adult education contact studies in Karlsruhe, and since 2012 also the teaching and learning center of the university.

Traub is the author of numerous didactic-methodical manuals, u. a. for free work, for self-directed and individualized learning, for cooperative teaching and learning (partly with Klaus Konrad), as well as for conversation, and co-author of the "basic pedagogical knowledge" (founded by Herbert Gudjons ) Silke Traub conducts advanced training for university lecturers, teachers and Multipliers at home and abroad.

Research priorities

Silke Traub has u. a. investigated the influence of project teaching on self-control processes in learners. Concept development and research design are based on the research program “Subjective Theories” (founded by Diethelm Wahl et al.). Her main focus today is the scientific support of individual schools, u. a. for the Luxembourg IFEN. Current research projects are in the area of teacher training (practical school studies).

Publications (selection)

Teaching and learning with a method. Individualized, cooperative, at different learning levels. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren 2016. ISBN 978-3-8252-4338-8
With H. Gudjons : Basic pedagogical knowledge. UTB series, Bad Heilbrunn / Obb .: Klinkhardt. 12th edition. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8252-4691-4
With K. Konrad: Cooperative learning: theory and practice in schools, universities and adult education. Baltmannsweiler: Tailor Hohengehren. 5th edition. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8340-0374-4
With K. Konrad: Self-directed learning: basic knowledge and tips for practice. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren 3rd edition 2015. ISBN 978-3-8340-1272-2
Design project work successfully. About individualized, self-directed learning to a successful small group project. UTB series. Bad Heilbrunn / Obb .: Klinkhardt 2012. ISBN 978-3-8252-3657-1
Learning independently in a project? Demand for project teaching and its evaluation from the perspective of teachers and learners. In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 57 (2011), pp. 93–113.

Individual evidence

↑ Silke Traub: On the way to free work: Development and analysis of a teacher training concept for imparting skills for free work in secondary school . Ed .: University of Education Weingarten. Weingarten 1999.
↑ Basic pedagogical knowledge overview - Compendium - Study book . Uni-Taschenbücher, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4691-4 .
↑ Silke Traub: Project work - a teaching concept of self-directed learning ?: a comparative empirical study . Klinkhardt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7815-1864-3 .
↑ Norbert Groeben: The Research Program Subjective Theories: An Introduction to the Psychology of the Reflective Subject . Francke, 1988, ISBN 3-7720-1821-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Traub, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educational scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reutlingen

[1] Silke Traub: On the way to free work: Development and analysis of a teacher training concept for imparting skills for free work in secondary school . Ed .: University of Education Weingarten. Weingarten 1999.

[2] Basic pedagogical knowledge overview - Compendium - Study book . Uni-Taschenbücher, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4691-4 .

[3] Silke Traub: Project work - a teaching concept of self-directed learning ?: a comparative empirical study . Klinkhardt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7815-1864-3 .

[4] Norbert Groeben: The Research Program Subjective Theories: An Introduction to the Psychology of the Reflective Subject . Francke, 1988, ISBN 3-7720-1821-1 .