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The Professorship General Educational Sciences

The most important tasks carried out within General Educational Sciences include on the one hand thinking critically about education and about its tasks, concepts and objectives in order to develop an educational theory. A second task is to record the conditions, the progression and the effects of educational processes in an empirical manner.

The objective is to make the reflections and concepts of theoretical educational sciences fruitful for empirical research and at the same time find approaches which make empirical educational research more able to make connections to theoretical discussions in educational sciences.

One way of combining educational theory with educational research is qualitative educational research. This includes approaches which not only highlight the subjective perspective of the self-educating but which also develop “hyper-individual” process and influence structures in the educational histories of the individuals. In order to depict educational processes in a comprehensive manner, processes are also used which combine qualitative and quantitative methods based on triangulating, integrative or mixed methods.