Carla Schelle

Prof. Dr. Carla Schelle is a Professor of Educational Science with a focus on School Pedagogy and Didactics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her work bridges comparative, reconstructive methodologies to analyze teaching practices across Germany, France, and Senegal, emphasizing political education, didactic innovations, and intercultural teacher training.

• Roles: Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching (2017-2023), Professor (since 2003), Deputy Professorships at University of Essen-Duisburg (2002-2003) and Goethe University Frankfurt (1997-1998).
• Education: Habilitation in School Pedagogy and Didactics of Social Sciences (2002, University of Hamburg), PhD in Qualitative Educational Research (1995, Justus Liebig University Giessen), Magister Artium (1988, Mainz).

Research Interests center on reconstructive classroom research, comparative didactics, and cultural-hermeneutic pedagogy. She explores how educational content is co-constructed in diverse cultural contexts, with a focus on political-historical topics and visual learning materials.

Publications span 15 recent works (2015-2025), including comparative studies on absolutism in French/German curricula, electoral education, and intercultural casuistry. Her projects, like CORE (DFG), examine narrative framings in students' critical online reasoning.

Collaborations include co-leading the Interpretative Research Workshop on Classroom Practices and developing international partnerships with institutions in Paris, Dakar, and Bordeaux. She also contributes to editorial boards and peer review for journals like Recherche et Formation.