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Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch - Research projects

Current Projects
„Empowering Police Officers and Teachers in Arguing Against Antisemitism“ (EMPATHIA³)

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The team develops, implements and evaluates a core curriculum for the training of future police officers and teachers in order to prevent and repressive anti-Semitism. As part of a psychometrically secured digital large-scale test, the target groups' attitudes and knowledge about anti-Semitism and Jewish life are first recorded. This allows the curriculum to be better tailored. In addition, police and teachers learn how to intervene appropriately when dealing with anti-Semitism.

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Project partners:

  • Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch (Didactics of History, Ruhr-University Bochum)
  • Prof. Dr. Alexandra Cuffel (Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr-University Bochum)
  • Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein (Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research, University of Tübingen)
  • Dr. Marc Grimm (Center for Prevention and Intervention in Children and Adolescents, Bielefeld University)
  • Dr. Sarah Jahn (University of Police and Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia, Gelsenkirchen)
  • Volker Beck (Tikvah Institute gUG Berlin), Deidre Berger (Tikvah Institute gUG Berlin).

Historical Thinking-Competencies in History (HITCH)

HiTCH 3. 0 – Developing Competence Measurement in History:

 

With the HiTCH project (Historical Thinking Competencies in History), funded by the BMBF from 2012 to 2015, a standardized test instrument was developed and tested to record the historical competencies of 15-year-old students in large-scale assessments (Trautwein et al. , 2017).

The HiTCH project group with history educators from Germany, Austria and Switzerland is currently working on the further development of this instrument under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein (Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research, Tübingen). Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch and Dr. des. Marcel Mierwald participates in HiTCH 3. 0.

Development of a large-scale test to test the historical competencies of 15-year-old students

  • Associate Partner: Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch (Didactics of History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  • Project leader: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein (Empirical Educational Research, University of Tübingen)
  • Project partners: Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber and Prof. Dr. em. Bodo von Borries (University of Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Waltraud Schreiber (University of Eichstätt)
  • Other associated partners: Prof. Dr. Béatrice Ziegler (PH Aarau/CH) and PD Dr. Christoph Kühberger (PH Salzburg/A)

 


Completed projects
Modeling and recording the history didactic competence of future history teacheren vor der Praxis

Project title: SOSCIE Future Social Sciences Teacher’s Competencies. Modeling and recording the didactic competence of future history teachers.
BMBF project in the funding line “Competences in the Higher Education Sector” (KoKoHs)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch (Didactics of History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Cooperation partner: Prof. Dr. Matthias Nückles (Empirical teaching and school research)
Associate Partner: Dr. Albert Logtenberg (Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching, The Netherlands)

The aim of SOSCIE is to model and record those facets of history didactic competence that future history teachers should have acquired at the end of their university teaching studies (cf. KMK Standards 2008/2013). This facet is theoretically modeled in the construct Knowledge about Tasks in History (cf. Kunter et al. 2008 and Blömeke 2013) and, following Shulman (1987), as a cognitive competence model to capture knowledge integration of the three profession-specific areas content knowledge (ck), pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and pedagogical knowledge (pk) as an independent variant. Possibilities for the development of individual pck Competence for the teaching subject of history conceptualized.

Publication in the joint project

  • Pusch, F., Kury, S., Brauch, N., Nückles, M. (2013). SOSCIE – Future Social Sciences Teachers’ Competencies: Modeling and Measuring Domain Specific Reasoning as a Professional Competence of Future History Teachers. In: Blömeke, S. & Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O. (Eds.). The German funding initiative “Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education”: 23 research projects on engineering, economics and social sciences, education and generic skills of higher education students. (KoKoHs Working Papers, 3). Berlin & Mainz: Humboldt University & Johannes Gutenberg University, S. 51-54.
  • Nicola Brauch, Kristin Wäschle, Albert Logtenberg, Franziska Pusch, Sarah Kury, Felix Frenz & Matthias Nückles: Studien zur Modellierung und Erfassung geschichtsdidaktischen Wissens künftiger Gymnasial-Lehrkräfte. in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik 13,1 (2014), S. 50-64.

Accepted publications (in print)

  • Matthias Nückles, Kristin Wäschle & Nicola Brauch: Tracking Competence Development and Knowledge Integration Processes with Learning Journals in Higher Education. Opinion-Paper, eingereicht am 31.3.2014 für die Zeitschrift für Psychologie (special issue on “Assessment of Competencies in Higher Education”).
Congress lectures
  • EARLI München August 2013
    Nicola Brauch, Franziska Pusch, Albert Logtenberg, Sarah Kury & Matthias  Nückles: Teaching Pre-Service History Teachers to Design Tasks That Foster Historical Reasoning
     
  • International Workshop KoKoHS Main November 2013
    Nicola Brauch, Kristin Wäschle, Felix Frenz, Sarah Kury, Albert Logtenberg (Leiden/NL), Franziska Pusch & Matthias Nückles: Towards a Competence Measurement Structure in Pre-Service History Teacher Education [Project SOSCIE].
     
  • DGfE Kongress Berlin March 2014
    Nicola Brauch, Kristin Wäschle, Felix Frenz, Sarah Kury, Albert Logtenberg (Leiden/NL), Franziska Pusch & Matthias Nückles:  SOSCIE – Modellierung und Erfassung fachdidaktischer Kompetenz künftiger Geschichtslehrkräfte.
    [Veröffentlichung geplant in: Koch-Priewe u.a.: Kompetenzen von Lehramtstudierenden und angehenden Erzieherinnen (Klinkhardt Herbst 2014)].
     
  • AERA Philadelphia/USA April 2014
    Nicola Brauch: How can we model and measure pre-active teacher students´ pck in the domain of history? Performances of individual pck in history as a product of knowledge integration – studies towards a mixed-method approach in test-construction.
Modeling and recording of historical questioning competence in history among first-year students in the teaching profession of history


“Researching history teacher” FOGEL
FOGEL. Researching History Teachers – History Didactic Project, funded by PerLe (Project Successful Teaching and Learning), Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, as part of the funding initiative “Qualitätspakt Lehre” of the BMBF (since winter semester 2013/14)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Andreas Bihrer (Media Studies)

National Socialism and World War II / 2011-2012

Type of funding: Research funding

Institutional location: Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe

Objective:

  • Development of bilingual teaching materials
  • Examination of the competencies of subject-specific didactic thinking in learning diaries

Stakeholders:

  • Dr. Annette Deschner (Europalehramt/Karlsruhe): Co-Project Manager
  • Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch: Co-Project Leader
Pirates in the Early Modern Period / 2009-2011

Type of funding: Gender research funding

Institutional location: Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe

Objective:

  • Development of bilingual teaching materials
  • Examination of the competencies of subject-specific didactic thinking in learning diaries

Stakeholders:

  • Dr. Annette Deschner (Europalehramt/Karlsruhe): Co-Project Manager
  • Prof. Dr. Nicola Brauch: Co-Project Leader
Contributions to the organisation of the meeting
  • Gelernte Erinnerung. Der Holocaust im Unterricht heute. Neue Perspektiven für die 4. Generation? Internationale Tagung mit Workshop.
    Nicole Colin (DIA Amsterdam) in Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Birkmeyer (Münster) und Nicola Brauch (Freiburg)
    Amsterdam, 19.-20.11.2010
     
  • Symposium „Das Mittelalter zwischen Vorstellung und Wirklichkeit“
    Thomas Martin Buck (Freiburg), Manfred Seidenfuß (Heidelberg) und Nicola Brauch
    http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2835
    Freiburg, 24.-26.09.2009