Forschung und Projekte
- Head of the DFG project “youth culture in teaching situations. An ethnography of student behavior” (duration 2001-2005)
- Head of the DFG project “Evaluation in the school classroom. An ethnographic study on the performance of school socialization” (duration 2005-2009)
- Head of the DFG project (together with Sandra Rademacher) “Individualization and Control. A praxeological study of open lessons in elementary school” (duration 1/2011-12/2016)
- Head of the DFG project “Excellence in primary education. The 'Best School' as an Object of Negotiation in the Decision-Making Discourse of Parents” of the DFG Research Unit ‘Mechanisms of Elite Formation in the German Education System’ (FOR 1612) (duration 2011-2019)
- Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 2731 “Professionalism and Interaction Practice in Primary School Teaching ” (Co-Speaker Prof. Dr. Friederike Heinzel) (duration 2022-2026)
Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte
social construction of gender in childhood, peer culture of children and young people, student perspectives on teaching, ethnographic classroom research, reform pedagogical practice in elementary school, parental choice of primary schools, methods and methodology of qualitative social research