Primary School Didactics of the Social Sciences
During the pre-school and primary school years, multi-perspective learning-processes provide children with opportunities to build up perspectives on and basic knowledge about the world. The starting point is children's diverse explorations of the world, i.e. everyday theories and subjective experiences. This means that assessments of school and pre-school children are included in the examination of objects. Relationships between children, objects and the world are dealt with in primary school lessons of social sciences and its didactics, a discipline of educational science.
The Department of Primary Didactics of the Social Sciences at the University of Leipzig focuses on the following areas in research and teaching:
- Historical and political learning
- Education for sustainable development
- Collection items
- Intercultural learning and inclusion
- Aesthetical education
- Early material education and material culture
- Gender studies
In addition, a research project is currently being carried out on language support and inclusion in primary school lessons of the social sciences.