Department of General Studies and Inclusive Didactics
General Studies can be studied at Leibniz University Hannover as a second subject or as an extension subject within the framework of the special education programme.
It is taken from the 3rd BA semester onwards. After completing the appropriate Master's programme, students qualify for a teaching position in Special Education as a second subject.
The subject of General Studies is understood as a general educational orientation subject at primary school level and deals with natural science phenomena and social issues.
The consequence of this is that thinking is based on perspectives and not on subjects. The aim is to establish a relationship between children’s own experience and specialist knowledge.
The teaching area General Studies and Inclusive Didactics focuses on the individual ideas of children with different learning prerequisites about phenomena and questions in their environment, thus initiating learning and educational processes based on these ideas. These childlike perspectives are further developed in a factual and professional way.
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Module Catalogue
Here you can download our module catalogue.
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Selected examples of content in the Bachelor’s subsidiary programme:
- Introduction to the goals and concepts of General Studies
- Discussion of interdisciplinary contents, such as education for sustainable development, education in democracy, peace education, etc.
- General Studies processes at out-of-school learning locations
- Heterogeneity of child learning prerequisites and ways of seeing phenomena
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Selected examples of content in the Master's subsidiary programme:
- Discussion of subject-related perspectives on General Studies topics
- Methodological approaches to research questions in the context of the didactics of General Studies
- Lesson planning and analysis of teaching materials
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Contact Persons for General Studies
Student Advisory Service: Admission of Course Archievements:
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Homework assignments and papers
In some modules, part of the examination consists of homework assignments/or and papers. For the writing of these papers, we have prepared instructions in the field of General Studies; these are based on the instructions of the Institute of Special Education. Please download here: Instructions for writing assignments and papers
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Excursions
General Studies in Hannover focuses, among other things, on theoretical and practical work with “out-of-school learning locations”. In this context, a number of excursions take place as part of the study programme.
Excursions to out-of-school learning venues make it possible to link teaching units in the subject area with the children’s environment in a clear and direct way.
Here you will find both the form for the excursion certificate in the BA phase and the form for the excursion certificate in the Master’s phase.
Here you find the course offerings of our institute.