Thomas Knaus

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Thomas Knaus (* 1974 in Langen near Frankfurt am Main ) is a German media educator and educational scientist. He works as a professor of educational science with a focus on media education and head of the media education department at the PH Ludwigsburg , as a professor of educational informatics in the department of computer science and engineering and scientific director of the Frankfurt Technology Center [: Media] - FTzM at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences . Before that he worked as a university professor for general educational science ( substitute chair) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ; he was visiting professor at the University of Otago , the University of Sydney and the University of Vienna .

Live and act

Knaus studied communications engineering in Dieburg near Darmstadt , social pedagogy , educational psychology , sociology and educational sciences in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate in 2008 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on the relationship between computer-aided text and image communication.

Knaus worked as a social and media pedagogue in extracurricular youth culture work in Frankfurt am Main and Bad Homburg . He is the initiator and project manager of the fraLine (1999–2014) and fraMediale (since 2009) cooperation projects. From 2011 to 2015 he was Managing Director of the Research Center Frankfurt Technology Center [: Medien] - FTzM , whose Scientific Director he is to this day. He is the initiator of the fraMediale Prize, publisher (together with Olga Engel) of the fraMediale series in the kopaed publishing house and project manager of the open access publication project “Research Workshop Media Education” and publisher of the series of the same name. As coordinator of the media education course at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) and head of the media education department at the PH Ludwigsburg , he is involved in university teacher training . He volunteers in the federal board of the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK) , in the steering committee of the initiative “No Education without Media - KBoM!”, In the Society for Computer Science (GI) and as an advisor to the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) . Thomas Knaus was born in Langen , spent childhood and youth in Neu-Isenburg and now lives in Ludwigsburg and Frankfurt am Main. In his spare time he runs marathons .

Research and Teaching

His fields of work and research are media education with a focus on digital change in educational institutions, school media education and media education development as well as the theoretical and methodological foundation of media education and educational informatics with a focus on socialization and educational theoretical aspects of digital change (" digitization ") and Engineering theory. His research interests include the methodological and epistemological positioning of media education as an independent, but interdisciplinary research field as well as the didactic potential of digital media , tools and materials for him in particular in the Active media work and in making come (Maker Education) to bear.

He is head of the media education department at the PH Ludwigsburg , teaches at the Institute for Educational Science at the PH Ludwigsburg and in the Department of Education of the Philosophical Faculty and in the Theology Department of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg , at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Science of the University of Vienna as well as at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (formerly Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences ).

Memberships and honorary positions

Knaus is a founding director of the FTzM . He is voluntarily involved in disciplinary and educational policy in the federal board of the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK), in the steering committee of the initiative “No Education without Media - KBoM!” And as an advisor to the Conference of Ministers of Education . In the GMK, Knaus is also involved in the Schools Section and in the Qualitative Research Section , of which he has been spokesperson since 2011. In the Society for Computer Science (GI) he is committed to the goal of "education in a digital world" for the interdisciplinary cooperation between computer science and (media) pedagogy , as described in the Dagstuhl Declaration or the Dagstuhl Triangle, is propagated in the interdisciplinary reference framework "Frankfurt triangle" and the Charter Digital Education. He is also a member of the Media Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) , the Society for Media in Science e. V. (GMW) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (IZdigital).

Awards (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (2020): Interfaces and interfaces - Digital change in educational institutions (working title) - Volume 7 of the fraMediale series, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-568-0 .
  • Knaus, Thomas (2019): Research Workshop Media Education. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research [Volume 3], Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-520-8
  • Brinda / Brüggen / Diethelm / Knaus / Kommer / Kopf / Missomelius / Leschke / Tilemann / Weich (2019): Frankfurt triangle for education in the digitally networked world - an interdisciplinary model, In: medien + erziehungs | merz special issue: Making and Media Education (Ed. by Björn Maurer and Kristin Narr), 4/2019, pp. 69–75
  • Knaus, Thomas / Bohnet, Nastasja (2019): Learning with head, heart and mobile phone - On the current state of research on emotions in media education, In: MedienImpulse - Contributions to media education (BMBWF, Vienna), doi.org/10.21243/mi- 04-19-01, 57/4, pp. 1-41
  • Knaus, Thomas (2018): Technology criticism and self-responsibility - a plea for an expanded understanding of media criticism, In: Niesyto, Horst / Moser, Heinz (ed.), Media criticism in the digital age (Volume 11 of the series of media education interdisciplinary), Munich, kopaed [p. 91-107], ISBN 978-3-86736-420-1
  • Knaus, Thomas (2018): Media Education Research Workshop. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research [Volume 2], Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-410-2
  • Knaus, Thomas / Meister, Dorothee M. / Narr, Kristin (2018): Futurelab media education. Professionalization - Quality Development - Standards, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-554-3
  • Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (2018): Tension? Potentials! Digital change in educational institutions - Volume 6 of the fraMediale series, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-496-6
  • Knaus, Thomas (2017): Research Workshop Media Education. Project - Theory - Method. Spectrum of media education research practice [Volume 1], Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-430-0
  • Knaus, Thomas (2017): Pedagogy of the Digital - Phenomena - Potentials - Perspectives, In: Eder, Sabine / Mikat, Claudia / Tillmann, Angela (eds.), Software takes command - challenges of "datafication" for media education in theory and Practice, Munich, kopaed [p. 49-68], ISBN 978-3-86736-553-6
  • Knaus, Thomas / Engel, Olga (2016): Wi (e) resistance - digital change in educational institutions - Volume 5 of the fraMediale series, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-352-5
  • Brüggemann, Marion / Knaus, Thomas / Meister, Dorothee (2016): Communication cultures in digital worlds - concepts and strategies of media education and media education, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-552-9
  • Knaus, Thomas (2009): Kommunigrafie - An empirical study on the importance of text and images in digital communication, Munich: kopaed, ISBN 978-3-86736-072-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professorship and academic staff. October 17, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences: Professors in Faculty 2: Computer Science and Engineering | Frankfurt UAS. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Directorate of the FTzM, Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  4. ^ FAU: Former chair holders. FAU, accessed on January 30, 2020 .
  5. ^ College of Education: Our People at the College of Education. Retrieved January 30, 2020 (en-nz).
  6. ↑ Our people. Retrieved January 30, 2020 (Australian English).
  7. ↑ University of Vienna: visiting professors at the Institute for Educational Sciences. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Knaus, Thomas (2009): Kommunigrafie - An empirical study on the importance of text and images in digital communication, Munich: kopaed
  9. ↑ fraLine project. FTzM of the Frankfurt UAS, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ Project fraMediale. FTzM of the Frankfurt UAS, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ http://framediale.de/wettbewerb
  12. ↑ http://www.kopaed.de/kopaedshop/?pg=2_16&qed=52
  13. ↑ http://forschungswerkstatt-medienpaedagogik.de/
  14. ↑ Series of publications in the Kopaed-Verlag, Munich. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ http://www.department-paedagogik.phil.uni-erlangen.de/
  16. ↑ Faculty of Philosophy and Education. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  17. ↑ http://www.keine-bildung-ohne-medien.de/
  18. ↑ KMK: Education in the digital world. Strategy of the Standing Conference . Ed .: KMK. Bonn, S. 64 .
  19. ^ FG School of the GMK. In: https://www.gmk-net.de/ueber-die-gmk/lf-fachgruppe/schule/ . Accessed December 29, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ Qualitative Research Section of the GMK. In: https://www.gmk-net.de/ueber-die-gmk/lf-fachgruppe/qualitative-forschung/ . Accessed December 29, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ KMK: KMK strategy on "Education in the digital world" . Ed .: KMK. Bonn 64.
  22. ↑ Dagstuhl Process :: Gesellschaft für Informatik eV GI, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  23. ^ IZ Digital :: Board of Directors and members. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences: BVW Awards | Frankfurt UAS. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Knaus, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, media pedagogue and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Langen (Hesse)