Qualification Project
Consequences of individual teaching assistance for accompanied students
The UN-Conversation on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has led to an increase use of assistants in German schools. For this purpose, ‘participation in education’ was anchored in the Social Code (§ 75 SGB IX), which is mostly realized as integration assistance (§ 112 SGB IX or § 35a SGB VIII) as an individual support service. Teaching assistance as a support service has been examined in research and controversially discussed. However, the perspectives of assisted students are underrepresented in the existing body of literature. The dissertation places interviews with students in receipt of teaching assistance at the center of a qualitative study to explore their perspectives. The project is grounded in the methodology of Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz), which privileges subject perspective. The aim of the study is to investigate positive and negative, intended and unintended consequences of individual teaching assistance from the addressees’ perspective.
Academic Career
April 2017 – April 2019
M.A. Educational science with a focus on Special Needs Education, Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany
Mai 2015 – December 2015
Semester abroad with a focus on Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway
September 2013 – March 2017
B.A. Education with a focus on Vocational Education, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Professional Experience
Since April 2023
Doctoral student: DFG Research Training Group 2493 “Consequences of social assistance” at the University Siegen
April 2020 – March 2023
Research assistant: BMBF-funded meta project ‘Inclusive Education’ at the Institute for Special Needs Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt
January 2018 – November 2020
Student/scientific assistant and research assistant: BMBF-funded project “Professionalization through case work for inclusive schools (ProFiS)” at the Institute for Special Needs Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt
April 2016 – March 2017
Student assistant. European ErasmusPlus project “A European Concept to Visualize and Reflect One’s Vocational Biography Using Digital Media” at the Institute for Vocational Education at KIT
