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Dorothee Gronostay is a Professor of Social Science Education with a focus on empirical political education at the Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Didactics of Integrative Subjects. She was previously a Junior Professor at the same institution from 2019 to 2023, following a successful interim evaluation in 2022. Her academic work is deeply rooted in empirical research on teaching and learning processes, particularly in political education.
Her research interests include empirical teaching and learning research, standardized video studies, competencies of politics teachers, test construction and competency measurement, controversial topics in the classroom, and representations of teaching. She employs video-based methodologies to analyze argumentative discourse, cognitive activation, and teacher-student interactions in civic education. Her work bridges theory and practice in teacher education, with a strong emphasis on developing and validating instruments to assess professional knowledge.
The analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on argumentation, classroom discourse quality, teacher professional vision, and the use of digital tools such as animated videos in teacher training. Her research often involves quasi-experimental designs, comparative analyses, and the development of assessment instruments, contributing significantly to the methodological and empirical foundations of social science didactics.
- Ursula Buch Prize of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE), 2020
- Dissertation Prize of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 2019
Dorothee Gronostay leads multiple research projects, including LArS.nrw (funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia), which develops animated films of real classroom scenes for teacher training, and the K4D sub-project in social sciences (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research), focusing on collaborative digital teaching. She also leads an independent video study on youth voting rights and the SoWis-L project for assessing professional knowledge in social sciences. She has collaborated extensively with researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and others, and regularly presents her findings at national and international conferences.
She is an active researcher and educator, contributing to the advancement of political and social science education through innovative empirical methods and digital learning tools.
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