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When Your Head Is Overflowing – Navigating University Studies with ADHD

Restless legs and a thousand thoughts in your head – ADHD is on everyone’s lips. According to estimates, around 5% of children and adolescents are …
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Learning in Diversity – Ten Findings from Educational Research

In the project “Multidimensional Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Measurement, Effects, Mechanisms,” Camilla Rjosk, Claudia Neuendorf, Rebecca Wetter, …
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Toward an Inclusive School – Addressing the diversity of learners: How inclusive education contributes to a new basic understanding in research, teaching, and knowledge transfer

When the University of Potsdam joined the Quality Initiative for Teacher Education funded by the federal government in 2015, it added “inclusion“ as a …
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Ten questions for a book – “Educating Teachers for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship”

Ten questions for a book, posed to Prof. Dr. Britta Freitag-Hild, Stefanie Goertz, Prof. Dr. Isolde Malmberg, and Prof. Dr. Linda P. Juang, editors of …
Prof. Dr. Nina Kolleck in her office.

33 Questions to Educational Researcher and Political Scientist Nina Kolleck

Which policies does good education need? Does a researcher dealing with global education trends and political socialization have to use TikTok? Do we …
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Can Reading Give Us a Better Understanding of Nature? Literary scholar Sabine Röttig researches ecological children’s literature

Gundula Priebe is the only one who regrets that the century-old linden tree in her village is to be chopped down – in favor of traffic. Since the girl …
Katharina Scheiter während des Interviews.

Not Falling for Fake News – Psychologist Katharina Scheiter explains how to prepare children for dealing with media

When we are not sleeping, we look at our cell phones every 15 minutes on average. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops have a great appeal even for …
Project Manager Dr. Kathleen Golle (left) and Senior Professor Reinhold Kliegl (right).

The Joy of Movement – How EMOTIKON examines children’s fitness

How fit are children these days? Are they couch potatoes, or is today’s youth literally outrunning us? “The trends are very clear: the endurance of …
Prof. Dr. Nina Kolleck

Of Children and Their Parents – Developmental Psychologist Birgit Elsner and Education Scientist Nina Kolleck talk about childhood

As soon as we have grown up, children become a mystery to us. While they laugh loudly and often, can barely sit still, and see life as a game, we …
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"Lehramt.International" – DAAD Project Enters Second Funding Phase

University of Potsdam celebrates 100th anniversary of the DAAD

Around 40 percent of pupils in German classrooms have a history of immigration. Many of them were born here, others have only been in Germany for a …