Ulrike Schildmann

Ulrike Schildmann (* 1950 ) is a German educationalist whose research focuses on the social relationships between gender and disability. She held the first university professorship in the German-speaking area, initiated by the Network for Women and Gender Studies in North Rhine-Westphalia (1996-2014, Univ./TU Dortmund). In educational science, it can be assigned to integrative / inclusive pedagogy.

Career

From 1971 to 1976 Ulrike Schildmann studied educational sciences with a focus on special education and the minor subjects psychology and sociology in the diploma course of the Berlin University of Education. Your doctorate as Dr. phil. took place in 1982 at the University of Bremen in the department of disabled education. Her habilitation with the venia legendi educational sciences with a focus on integration pedagogy took place in 1995 at the TU Berlin.

From 1978 to 1983 Ulrike Schildmann was a research assistant at the Sociological Institute of the Free University of Berlin, specializing in “health system analysis”. Also at the Free University of Berlin in 1985/86 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Classroom Research and Curriculum Development. She gained international experience at the University of Iceland (Háskoli Islands) as a guest lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 1984 and as a research assistant at the University of Iceland in 1986/87, each in the subjects of pedagogy for the disabled and the sociology of medicine. From 1987 to 1989 she was a research assistant in the office of the Science Council in Cologne.

In 1990 Ulrike Schildmann became professor for general curative education at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum. From 1991 to 1996 she held the professorship for general curative and special education at the University of Siegen. A research semester in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil also fell during this time. From 1996 to 2014 she was a university professor for women's research in education for the disabled (today: women's research in rehabilitation and education for the disabled) at the University / TU Dortmund. During this period in 2010 she was visiting professor at the Institute for Rehabilitation Education at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has been retired since April 2014.

Main focus of work and research

The main focus of work and research are the following:

• Social relationships between gender and disability
• Systematic of women's research in education for the disabled and integration education
• Inclusive pedagogy and gender
• Biography research in disabled and integration education
• Disability and gender in international comparison
• Normalism research on normality, disability and gender
• Intersectionality research on gender and disability across the lifespan

Works (selection)

• Schildmann, Ulrike: On the political and economic function of the vocational rehabilitation of the disabled in the FRG and West Berlin. Rheinstetten: Schindele, 1977, ISBN 3-88070-288-8 .
• Schildmann, Ulrike (1983): Living conditions for disabled women. Giessen: Focus, 1983, ISBN 3-88349-173-X .
• Integration Education: Biographical Approaches. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 1994, ISBN 978-3-8100-1235-7 (according to Reinhard Völzke).
• Integration Education and Gender. Theoretical foundation and results of the research. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1996, ISBN 978-3-8100-1568-6 .
• Ulrike Schildmann (Ed.): Normality, Disability and Gender. Approaches and perspectives in research. Wiesbaden: Leske + Budrich, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8100-3028-3 .
• Normalism research on disability and gender. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8100-3951-4 .
• Schildmann, Ulrike (2006): Pre-Images. Men and women in educational professions: motivation, careers, perspectives. Bochum / Freiburg: Projektverlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89733-155-6 .
• Dealing with differences in life span. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7815-1761-5 .
• The disability category in intersectionality research. Bochum: Projektverlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89733-447-2 .

literature

• Interdisciplinary Research Group: Dynamics of Gender Constellations (Ed.). Univ. Professor Dr. Ulrike Schildmann [1] .
• Network Women and Gender Research NRW (Ed.). Prof. (retired) Dr. Ulrike Schildmann [2] .
• Interview with Ulrike Schildmann. In: Frank J. Müller (Ed.): Looking back to the front - trailblazers of inclusion vol. 1. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2018, pp. 271-282. [3]

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrike Schildmann in the catalog of the German National Library