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Professor Petra Wieler is a distinguished academic at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she serves as C4-Professor for Primary School Education/Learning Area German in the Department of Education and Psychology. Her academic career spans over four decades, with significant contributions to German didactics, literacy development, and children's media reception.
Her research interests focus on reading and media socialization, linguistic enculturation, literary learning, and teaching research, with particular emphasis on multilingual education contexts. Professor Wieler's work bridges theoretical frameworks with practical classroom applications, examining how children interact with literature and media across different linguistic and cultural contexts.
Her extensive publication record reveals consistent research trajectories centered on picture book reception, literacy development in multilingual children, family literacy practices, and the intersection of media and narrative construction. The publications demonstrate increasing attention to multilingual contexts and digital media influences on children's literacy development over time.
Professor Wieler actively supervises graduate students through her Master's thesis colloquia and maintains an active research agenda through projects like the Nightingale Berlin mentorship program for children with migration backgrounds. She has developed numerous courses on multilingualism in early childhood education, literacy development, and children's literature.
Her laboratory work centers around the 'Medienrezeption und Narration' research project examining how elementary school children process book and media stories through conversation and storytelling, conducted at the intersection of language acquisition research, psychological reception studies, and educational methodology.
