Education
Education (B.A.)
With us you will learn about the conditions and possibilities of pedagogical processes and their support in the field of tension between culture, organization and society!
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Duration of studies in semester
- 6
- Start of degree program
- Winter semester
- Study location
- Erlangen
- Number of students
- > 600
- Subject group
- Economic Sciences, Law, Language and Cultural Studies
- Special ways to study
- 2-subject Bachelor, Part-time degree program
- Teaching language
- completely in German
- Admission Requirements
- No Admissions Restrictions
What is the degree program about?
Education does not only take place in kindergartens and schools, and educators do not only work with children and young people. They provide support for learning processes in all areas of life and promote the education and development of people at all ages. There are a variety of subdivisions: Vocational, Elementary, Recreational, Cultural, Art, Moral, Music, Organizational, Religious, School, Social, Sport and Business Education, Intercultural Education, Adult Education, etc.
The Education degree program in Erlangen offers above all a scientific introduction to general pedagogical questions. The main focus is on learning pedagogical ways of thinking and research methods. During their studies, students learn about pedagogical basics and historical developments of the subject as well as about pedagogical topics and fields of work. This opens up the possibility of systematically grasping pedagogical issues and developing solutions for them. In the compulsory internship, the focus is on independently applying pedagogical action knowledge.
The degree program is based on a diversity-sensitive and critical understanding of pedagogy and educational science, which makes the handling of difference, the question of conditions and possibilities of transcending the social status quo, the production of subjectivity and the empowerment of subjects (in their relational entanglements with the world) the decisive reference points of university teaching.
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The degree program consists of compulsory and elective modules. Compulsory modules are Introduction to Pedagogy, Historical and Systematic Foundations of Pedagogy, Pedagogical Research, Pedagogical Fields of Work, Introduction to Pedagogical Fields as well as the internship and the Bachelor’s thesis. Elective modules are Pedagogical Foundations and Pedagogical Research. After the first year of study (i.e. after the second semester), there is a foundation and orientation exam, which is considered passed if at least two modules have been successfully completed. A central element of the study program is the educationally linked thematization, analysis and reflection of social and cultural differentiations in the context of progressive social transformation processes including the associated institutions and organizations (e.g. migration and flight, digitalization, trans-nationalization, social segregation, poverty).
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The focus of the degree program in Erlangen is on organizational pedagogy and cultural education.
Generally speaking, organizational pedagogy deals with how to support learning processes in and by organizations. Specifically, this involves tasks in training and further education, in personnel and organizational development, as well as in coaching and organizational consulting.
Arts education aims to enable children, young people and adults to engage with art and culture in all their diversity and thus support them in shaping their lifeworld and in participating in culture and society.
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- Interest in educational, social, and labor market policy contexts
- Willingness and ability to read and write a lot (good understanding of texts and good written expression)
- Willingness and ability to deal with technical language and foreign words
- Openness to English-language texts
- Ability to deal independently with more demanding texts in a critical and reflective manner
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In the consecutive Master’s degree program „Pedagogy M.A.“ you will then have the opportunity to deepen the above-mentioned questions with regard to focal points.
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As a professional qualification, the degree program provides competencies for the following fields of activity, among others:
Organizational Pedagogy
- Educational management in the field of continuing education.
- In-company training and continuing education.
- In the personnel and organizational development of companies.
- In general and vocational adult education as lecturers at state or private educational institutions (e.g. adult education centers, educational organizations).
- In educational research (after the master’s degree).
Cultural Education
- In extracurricular youth education
- In cultural educational institutions (e.g. cultural centers)
- In art and cultural institutions (e.g. museums)
- In associations
- In counseling institutions
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The goal of educational science training is to enable pedagogically committed thinking, which is concretized in a research-oriented attitude:
- Reflexive-analytical attention to structural contradictions of the pedagogical field of action.
- Critical-descriptive penetration of the interdependent conditions and influences of pedagogical reality and its social-cultural framing.
- Identification and reflection of (one’s own) pedagogical spaces of action and barriers against the background of cultural, habitual, and biographical preconceptions.
- Development of professionalism as a reflexive transformation of the relationship between the self and the world in relation to pedagogical contexts of action
- Enabling spaces of speaking and thinking for oneself and others
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Degree program combinations
- Archaeological Sciences
- Art History
- Business and Economics
- English and American Studies
- French Roman Studies
- German studies
- Greek Philology
- History
- Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Studies
- Islamic Religious Studies
- Italian Romance Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Latin Philology
- Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Scandinavian Studies (BA)
- Sociology
- Theater and Media Studies
Das Lehrangebot dieser Kombination ist so aufeinander abgestimmt, dass die Fächer in der Regel überschneidungsfrei miteinander kombiniert werden können.
Limited degree program combinations
- Book Studies
- Chinese Studies
- Computational Linguistics
- Cultural History of Christianity
- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
- Geography: Cultural Geography
- Hispanic Studies
- Oriental Studies
Diese Kombination kann nur nach einer diesbezüglichen Studienberatung studiert werden. Die Überschneidungsfreiheit kann jedoch nicht garantiert werden. Die Studierenden tragen selbst die Verantwortung für die Studierbarkeit der Kombination und die Einhaltung der Fristen des § 10. Der Nachweis einer Studienberatung ist bei der Immatrikulation vorzulegen.
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- Admission requirements (first semester)
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Application deadline winter semester
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30.09.
Language skills
- German language skills for international applicants
- DSH 2 or equivalent
- General language skills
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Nachweis ausreichender Kenntnisse in mindestens 2 Fremdsprachen (darunter Englisch) bis zum Ende des 4. Semesters
- Details and notes
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The application deadline for the winter semester for international applicants is July 15th.
In addition to the general qualification for university entrance (Abitur), there are other access options for studying at FAU.
Do you need help or more information?
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