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Professional career

• since 10/2021
  Research Assistant in the Project QuEProF - Qualidade da Educação pela Qualidade na Formação de Professores-Formadores (Quality of Education through Quality of the Formation of Teacher Trainers): International development cooperation in the field of teacher training and lesson development in cooperation with Rovuma University, Nampula, Moçambique.
• since 10/2012
  Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Education (University of Leipzig), Chair of General Didactics and Secondary School Pedagogy
• 05/2009 - 09/2013
  Head of the project " Areas of Media Pedagogical Practice: E-Learning", Institute for Communication and Media Science, Chair for Media Pedagogy and Continuing Education, University of Leipzig
• 04/2009 - 12/2011
  Researcher at the Faculty of Education of the University of Leipzig, Chair for international and intercultural comparative educational science
• 11/2008 - 03/2009
  Student assistant at the Chair of Media Pedagogy and Continuing Education, Institute for Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig
• 01/2007 - 01/2009
  Participation in the evaluation of the Saxon model project "Lesestart - Growing with Books" by the Chair of Media Education and Continuing Education at the University of Leipzig
• 04/2004 - 04/2005
  Tutor at the Leipzig Online-Seminar 'Media Competence' at the Chair for Media Pedagogy and Continuing Education (a cooperation project with TU Ilmenau, TU Chemnitz and TU Dresden)

Education

• 04/2010 - 10/2020
  Doctorate on "Didactic Competencies for E-Learning and Blended Learning" at the Faculty of Education of the University of Leipzig (supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernd Schorb)
• 10/2002 - 02/2009
  Master's degree at the University of LeipzigMajor: Educational Science, Minors: Communication and Media Studies, Psychology
• 08/2005 - 04/2006
  Studies at the Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland, Reykjavík), specializing in educational science, Icelandic, social science

Karla Spendrin conducts research on various didactic and methodological topics:

Didactic competencies for the e-learning and blended learning programmes: Her dissertation project (https://fob.uni-leipzig.de/public/details/forschungsprojekt/2253) is concerned with (a) the question of which didactic competencies are required for planning, implementing and developing e-learning and blended learning programmes, and (b) the methodological question of how such competency requirements can be theoretically and empirically identified.

Methodological questions of qualitative-reconstructive teaching research: Karla Spendrin is engaged in projects of the Chair of General Didactics and Pedagogy of Secondary Education, which, for example, deal with the question of how to deal with the essential normativity of general didactic theories in empirical research (https://fob.uni-leipzig.de/public/details/forschungsprojekt/4034). Methodological questions of qualitative-reconstructive teaching research are also dealt with in international collaborations (https://fob.uni-leipzig.de/public/details/forschungsprojekt/4623).

Individualization and collectivisation in the classroom: The central question here is how certain individuals and communities are established in classroom interaction (https://fob.uni-leipzig.de/public/details/forschungsprojekt/4615).

• Individualization and Collectivisation in Classroom: Comparative Videobased-Interpretative Lesson Inquiry in Germany and Japan

  Hallitzky, Maria

  Duration: 04/2017 – 12/2020

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• “From prescriptions to suggestions?” - Normativity and Empirical Research in General Didactics

  Hallitzky, Maria

  Duration: 11/2014 – 12/2019

  Funded by: Haushaltsmittel (TG51, Overhead)

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• The development of didactical competencies for planning and development of E-Learning- and Blended-Learning-Arrangements

  Schorb, Bernd

  Duration: 08/2014 – 12/2020

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• Innov@ter - International Online Video Case Archive for Teacher Training and Empirical Research

  Mbaye, Mamadou

  Duration: 10/2020 – ongoing

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• Researching Language in Classrooms: An International Dialogue on Qualitative Classroom Research and Development

  Hallitzky, Maria

  Duration: 05/2022 – 12/2023

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Allgemeine Didaktik und Schulpädagogik des Sekundarbereichs
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• Hallitzky, M.; Heinze, F.; Herfter, C.; Spendrin, K.

  Potenziale der normativen Valenz allgemeindidaktischer Theorien für die Bildungsforschung

  Erziehungswissenschaft. 2018. 29 (56). pp. 87–95.
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• Herfter, C.; Spendrin, K.; Heinze, F.; Leicht, J.; Kinoshita, E.

  Sehen was sein soll? Zur normativen Valenz allgemeindidaktischer Theorien für die qualitative Unterrichtsforschung

  Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung. 2019. 20 (2). pp. 253–269.

  DOI: 10.3224/zqf.v20i2.03
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• Spendrin, K.

  Didaktische Kompetenzen für E-Learning und Blended Learning

  Doctoral thesis. 2020.

  URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-730414
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• Spendrin, K.; Hallitzky, M.; Mbaye, M.

  Grenzbearbeitungen von Schulpraxis und qualitativ-rekonstruktiver Unterrichtsforschung im Dialog über Lehrer:innenfragen.

  In: Frank, M.; Geier, T.; Hornberg, S.; Machold, C.; Otterspeer, L.; Singer-Brodowski, M.; Stošić, P. (Eds.)

  Grenzen auflösen - Grenzen ziehen. Grenzbearbeitungen zwischen Erziehungswissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft.. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budric. 2023. pp. 103–122.

  DOI: 10.3224/84742625
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• Hallitzky, M.; Spendrin, K.

  Kontextualisierung demokratischen Lernens: Irritationen und Reflexionen anhand eines Unterrichtsbeispiels aus Mosambik.

  In: Fuhrmann, L.; Akbaba, Y. (Eds.)

  Schule zwischen Wandel und Stagnation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2022. pp. 273–303.

  ISBN: 978-3-658-37942-1
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Karla Spendrin offers seminars on basic topics of general didactics and school pedagogy in educational science module 1 (teacher training). The main focus here is on the integration of a structured knowledge acquisition with competences in case related reflection of teaching. Since the summer semester of 2020, this module has been offered on the basis of the Social Hypertext Reader (SHRIMP), a project that, in addition to promoting the interlinking of specific seminar content, also aims to develop competencies in the field of digital teaching and learning (https://fob.uni-leipzig.de/public/details/forschungsprojekt/4871). The use of the Social Hypertext Reader was accompanied by a research-oriented project seminar in the summer semester 2020.

In the context of international development cooperation projects in the field of teacher education and teaching development, Karla Spendrin also offers project seminars on this topic.

Another focus in teaching and training are regularly offered research colloquia as part of the supervision of scientific theses in the field of qualitative classroom research in an intercultural context.