Katrin Ehrenberg

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Katrin Ehrenberg
Address
Schloßwender Straße 1
30159 Hannover
Building
Room
016
Katrin_Ehrenberg Katrin_Ehrenberg © Roland Schneider/Bilderraum Fotostudio
Katrin Ehrenberg
Address
Schloßwender Straße 1
30159 Hannover
Building
Room
016
Position
Research Staff
Institute of Education for Special Needs

Key topics of interest in Research and Teaching

  • Paraprofessional assistance (pupil's perspective; difference in the context of paraprofessional assistance)
  • Difference
  • Peer relationships
  • Augmentative and alternative communication
  • Autism spectrum
  • Acquisition of written language in the special focus of mental development

 

Subject of PhD Project

  • " ... because sometimes it looks like Leon has a butler" - Address-Analytical Reconstructions of Subjectivity, Power and Agency in the Context of School Assistance in Inclusive Schools.

 

Research methods

  • Documentary method
  • Ethnography (ethnographic observation)
  • Grounded Theory
    • Interviews/group discussions with children

Bio

  • Work experience
    Since 01/2020 Research associate, project Discover - Internationalisierung zu Hause
    Since 04/2018 Research associate at the Insitute for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Leibniz University of Hanover, Department of General Special Education and Sociology
    11/2016-03/2018 Student research assistant at the Institut for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, Leibniz University of Hanover, Department of General Special Education and Sociology
  • Education
    2016-2018 Studies in Special Needs and Inclusive Education for Schools at the Leibniz University Hanover (Specialisations: Pedagogy for intellectual development impairments and pedagogy for speech and language impairments; subject: German), degree Master of Education
    2013-2016 Studies in Special Needs and Inclusive Education and German Studies at the Leibniz University Hanover, degree Bachelor of Arts
  • Awards and scholarships
    2019 President's Prize for Excellent Students, Leibniz University of Hanover
    2014/2015 and 2016/2017 Scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium

     

  • Memberships and offices
    • German Educational Research Association (DGfE/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft); division 6 „Special Education“ and division 2 „General Education“ (subdivision „Philosophy of Education")
    • ISAAC – Gesellschaft für Unterstützte Kommunikation e.V. (German division of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
    • Contact for International Affairs and Exchange Coordinator of the Institute for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (Outgoing and Incoming)