Maria Anna Kreienbaum
Maria Anna Kreienbaum was a professor for “General Didactics and Theory of Schools” at Wuppertal University from 2006 to 2020 and is still active.
Her research focuses on gender and schooling, school development, European teacher education, intercultural education and teacher professionalism. She works with mixed-method research approaches.
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CV – Prof. Dr. Maria Anna Kreienbaum
07/1955
Born in Bochum, Germany
1974
Abitur in Bochum
1975-1979
Teacher education at Ruhr-University, Bochum, English and German Studies, 1st state exam
1979-1986
teacher at vocational schools and secondary schools, 2nd state exam
1986–1996
research associate at Centre for Higher Education Didactics TU Dortmund
12/1991
graduation as Dr. phil. with the thesis "Erfahrungsfeld Schule. Koedukation als Kristallisationspunkt" (School as a field of experience. Coeducation as a crystallisation point) at TU Dortmund
2000
habilitation; topic of the thesis: Lernen im Spannungsfeld von Nähe und Distanz (learning in the contradiction between proximity and distance), venia legendi: school pedagogy and gender studies at TU Dortmund
1996-2000
acting professor at the universities of Frankfurt, Halle/Saale and Karlsruhe
2001-2002
professor at Justus Liebig University, Gießen
2002-2006
professor at Paderborn University; coordinator of EU-projects LinE – European competence for teachers (2004-2007)
2006-2020
professor at Wuppertal University: coordinator of EU-Project Eule – intercultural competences for teachers (2007-2009), various other international research projects, i.e. education as a challenge – Zambia (2001-2003); development, education and direct meeting – the example of Zambia (2009-2012); Zambia – 72 people build a state (2014-2017); projects dealing with teacher professionalism (2006-2009); expertise of first-year students (2014-2017) etc.