Research

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On these pages the research group »Research on Teachers and Teacher Education« informs about current and finished research projects.

 


Project

Mentor-Mentee-Relationship in a Long Term Internships (MEET)


The ›Teaching Workshop‹ (Lehr:werkstatt) is an alternative long-term school internship for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed. for Secondary Schools). Instead of conducting their regular three-week school internship, students who take part in the Teaching Workshop, work with their mentoring teacher as a tandem in class for one whole school year (1 day per week). They take part in class life and they experience every day work of a teacher throughout the year. They thus have the possibility to develop their teaching skills gradually in various forms of tandem teaching. In this way, both students and teachers benefit from this internship. The internship is complemented by three workshops and a class every other week at the University. In Bavaria, the Teaching Workshop has been introduced at four locations since 2011: Munich, Würzburg, Passau and Erlangen-Nuremberg. At the University of Tübingen, the program started in 2016. A special feature of the internship is the close work relationship between mentoring teacher and student. Research on Teachers and Teacher Education points to the importance of the relationship quality for the professionalization of students. A balance of support and challenge is seen as an important indicator of a successful internship. An interdisciplinary qualitative study will examine the relationship between the quality of the relationship as well as the given support and challenge. To this end, several preliminary and follow-up discussions of lessons are recorded, transcribed and analyzed through discourse analysis. 



Publications


Führer, F.-M., & Cramer, C. (2021). Mentoring und Mentorierenden-Mentee-Beziehung in schulpraktischen Phasen der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Ein Überblick zu Definitionen, Konzeptionen und Forschungsbefunden. In G. Hagenauer & D. Raufelder (Hrsg.), Soziale Eingebundenheit. Sozialbeziehungen im Fokus von Schule und Lehrer*innenbildung (S. 113–126). Münster: Waxmann.

Führer, F.-M., & Cramer, C. (2020). Mentoring und Coaching in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. In C. Cramer, J. König, M. Rothland & S. Blömeke (Eds.), Handbuch Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (pp. 748–755). Bad Heilbrunn und Stuttgart: Klinkhardt utb.

Führer, F.-M., & Cramer, C. (2020). Qualität der Mentorierenden-Mentee-Beziehung in der schulpraktischen Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Empirische Validierung und Ausdifferenzierung. In K. Rheinländer & D. Scholl (Eds.), Verlängerte Praxisphasen in der Lehrer*innenbildung. Konzeptionelle und empirische Aspekte der Relationierung von Theorie und Praxis (pp. 331–350). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.

Wenz, K., & Cramer, C. (2019). Die Mentoren-Mentee-Beziehung in schulpraktischen Studien. Theoretische Modellierung und Operationalisierung. Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung, 3(1), 28–43.



Presentations


09/2017
Educational Research and Governance. 82. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) in Tübingen: Die Mentoren-Mentee-Beziehung in schulpraktischen Studien: Modellierung und Operationalisierung. [Vortrag in Symposium]

 

About

Dr. Colin Cramer holds an endowed full professorship of educational science at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Thurgau University of Teacher Education (Switzerland).

Aims 

The aim of research in the Educational Science working group is to make basic theoretical, systematic and empirical contributions to questions of education. Research on teachers and teacher education as a focal point has the aim to understand who teachers and school leaders are, under which circumstances they work and how they can be prepared for their tasks appropriately in initial teacher education as well as in continuing professional development. In teaching, the working group is responsible for the basic foundations in the field of education, educational psychology and sociology of education in the teacher education programs.

Get in Touch

University of Konstanz

Address:
Prof. Dr. Colin Cramer
University of Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10 | Fach 45
D-78464 Konstanz
Germany

Phone:
+49 (0) 7531 88-4144

Email:
colin.cramer@uni-konstanz.de

Office Hours:
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Thurgau University of Teacher Education

Address:
Prof. Dr. Colin Cramer
Thurgau University of Teacher Education
Unterer Schulweg 3 | Postfach
CH-8280 Kreuzlingen
Switzerland

Phone:
N.N.

Email:
colin.cramer@ph-thurgau.ch

Office Hours:
Registration via email required