Christine Beckerle

Dr. Christine Beckerle is a Researcher at the Department of Special Education Psychology within the Institute for Special Education at Leibniz University Hannover's Faculty of Philosophy. She has served as scientific staff since summer semester 2011 and currently holds project management responsibilities for several significant research initiatives.

Her educational background includes a doctorate in Educational Science from Goethe University Frankfurt (2016) with a dissertation on 'Everyday Integrated Language Support in Daycare and Primary Schools - Evaluation of the Fellbach Concept,' supervised by Prof. Dr. Diemut Kucharz and Prof. Dr. Katja Mackowiak. She also holds a double degree in Primary School Teaching and Pedagogy from Goethe University Frankfurt.

• Phone: +49 511 762 17335
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• Address: Schloßwender Straße 1, 30159 Hannover
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Dr. Beckerle's research focuses on early childhood language development, adaptive learning support in educational settings, and professionalization of educational staff. Her work particularly emphasizes linguistically integrated support for children with migration backgrounds and refugees. She employs primarily quantitative and evaluation research methodologies in her investigations.

She currently leads the ADIL project (2022-2026) investigating adaptive dialogic reading for multilingual children, and has previously managed several significant projects including LeiK-adaptive, NiKK professionals, and allE. Her research consistently addresses practical implementation of language support strategies in daycare and primary school settings.

• DGfE: German Society for Educational Science (Section 5: School Pedagogy, Section 6: Special Education)
• dgs: German Society for Speech Therapy (Lower Saxony Group)
• BAG-BEK eV: Federal Working Group for Education and Upbringing in Childhood

As an educator, Dr. Beckerle teaches seminars on language support, diagnostics, language impairments, observation methods, and diversity in educational contexts. She supervises bachelor's and master's theses with a focus on theoretical and empirical quantitative projects in special education psychology.