Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2022
  Acting professor Chair of Special Needs/ Inclusive Education (Leipzig University)
• since 04/2015
  Professor Inclusive Education University of Applied Science Hannover (50%)
• 04/2014 - 03/2020
  Senior Researcher, Institute of Special and Inclusive Education (Leipzig University)
• 08/2013 - 03/2014
  Senior Lecturer, Institute of Special and Inclusive Education (Leipzig University)
• 02/2008 - 07/2013
  DAAD Lecturere and Deputy Office Manager for Ethiopia and Djibouti
• 02/2008 - 07/2013
  Ass. Professor Special Needs & Inclusive Education, Educational College Addis Abeba University; since 2013 Lifelong Affiliated Ass. Professor
• 08/2001 - 07/2003
  Teacher - Degree programme for qualifying teachers (2nd study phase), subject: German Language and Literature
• 07/1995 - 07/2007
  Teacher, Primary and Secondary Schools in Omaruru (Namibia), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Geesthacht (Germany)

Education

• 04/2006 - 01/2008
  Doctoral Degree in the field of Learning Disabilities, Side subjects: Psychology and Comparative Education, Leipzig University
• 08/2000 - 12/2002
  Teaching Degree Programme of Special Needs Education (1st Staatsexamen), Hamburg University
• 08/1998 - 07/1999
  Study of German as a Foreign Language, (Degree), Kassel University
• 09/1995 - 07/1997
  Practical Studies / Vocational qualification: teacher in Primary and Secondary Education (2nd Staatsexamen), IPTS Lübeck
• 09/1991 - 07/1995
  Teaching Degree Programme, Primary and Secondary Education (1st Staatsexamen) Christian Albrecht University, Kiel
• 09/1981 - 06/1991
  A Level, Grammar School, Bad Segeberg

Life Stories – Inclusive Research with People with Disabilities in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Participatory action research on issues of social inequality and exclusion in the national and international context

NAKOPA - Sustainable municipal development through partnership projects: Department for International Affairs of the City of Leipzig, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) of the City of Leipzig as well as the University of Leipzig, Institute for Special Needs Education (Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2019, follow-up project planned) - financed by the BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), Engagement Global

Award "Teilhabepreis" (1st place) of the city of Leipzig (2018) for the development of a tactile children's book

School development according to the Index for Inclusion - participatory project with pupils of the BSZ 12, Leipzig with use of Photovoice method

Project Funding in the Year of Democracy 2018 (Leipzig)

• Inklusive Kommune - Maßnahmen zur Förderung einer inklusiven Gesellschaft in den Partnerstädten Leipzig und Addis Abeba

  Zehle, Jana

  Duration: 10/2016 – 09/2019

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Inklusive Bildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung sonderpädagogischer Lernförderung
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• Life stories - Inclusive Research with Peoples with Disabilities in Bahir Dar, Äthiopien

  Zehle, Jana

  Duration: 01/2012 – ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Inklusive Bildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung sonderpädagogischer Lernförderung
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more projects

• Zehle, J.

  Marktwert oder individuelle Wertschätzung – der Capability Approach als Grundgedanke für den Umgang mit Leistung und Leistungsbewertung im Kontext von Inklusion in der Schule

  Leistung inklusive? Inklusion in der Leistungsgesellschaft. menschenrechtliche, sozialtheoretische und professionsbezogene Perspektiven. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. 2017. pp. 57–63.
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more publications

Teaching in ASP 1000 & 2000 (Special Needs Education) with a focus on inclusion in theory, research and practice (State Examination, previously Bachelor and Master)

Main focus

• Special Needs/ Inclusive education and its theoretical foundation
• Inclusion

• Summer term 2023 05-ASP-2000 lecture

  Democracy, participation, inclusion – socio-theoretical foundations

  and research methods

• Summer term 2023 05-ASP-2000 seminar 01

  Introduction to cross-curricular learning in inclusion-oriented settings

• Professorship at the Hochschule Hannover

  Department for inclusive education (Faculty V)

• Acting Professor Hochschule Hannover

  Departement for inclusive education & Department for social work (Faculty V): Digital Learning and Disabilty