As part of this moderated peer exchange, faculty members from various disciplines have the opportunity to easily raise current issues and pedagogical challenges related to their teaching and to discuss them.
Thematic focus is on the challenge of ensuring two things in the teaching-learning process: preventing or responding to discrimination and strengthening democracy.
In this context, pedagogical methods and principles, information about the various dimensions of anti-democratic attitudes and discrimination, as well as the involvement of specific counseling services and experience-based solutions, can be helpful.
On the one hand, participants receive suggestions from colleagues and university teaching specialists for the democratized and diversity-sensitive further development of their teaching; on the other hand, they can share their pedagogical expertise with other instructors.
To help us plan this format more effectively, we ask that you register, even at short notice.
This format is fueled by collegial exchange on current questions and concerns raised by participants, supplemented by expertise in higher education pedagogy. It is not a workshop in the strict sense. The exchange typically takes place on the last Thursday of the month.
Recognition can be granted as 1 AE toward the “AKTive Lehre” program (Exchange category).
Further Information
https://www.hd-sachsen.de/anmeldung/offener-austausch-demokratie-und-lehre-demokratie-staerken-diskriminierung-entgegenwirken-2
Registration
https://kursmanagement.hd-sachsen.de/sign_up/a99484b4b9464859e9986fac4efaa57b
Moderator
Dr. Thomas Gloy studied political science and sociology before earning his Ph.D. at the intersection of history and sociology, focusing on moral codes in the Hitler Youth. In addition to his doctoral studies, he worked on a freelance basis in youth and adult education from 2010 to 2017. After subsequently working in the field of democratic education at the Saxony State Sports Federation, he began his work in higher education pedagogy as part of the collaborative project “Lehrpraxis im Transfer plus.” He was active in this role from March 2018 to March 2021—when the project concluded. Since then, he has been a staff member at the Saxony Center for Higher Education Didactics, where he focuses primarily on implementing and further developing the foundational module as well as expanding other program tracks.
Isabel Berger is a research associate in the “Digitization of Higher Education in Saxony” project at TU Dresden. After earning a dual-major Bachelor’s degree in education and sociology, she completed the Master's degree programme “Talent Research and Competency Development” in Leipzig, where she already focused on the training of prospective teachers. In her subsequent work, she focused her research and teaching on developing diagnostic and digitalization-related competencies among student teachers. Since 2024, she has been applying these pedagogical and psychological concepts—both in terms of content and methodology—to the professional development and counseling of faculty members at Saxon universities.
Mariane Liebold is a project coordinator for the collaborative project “Digitization of Higher Education in Saxony” (DHS) and a research assistant at the Chair of Media Education at TU Dresden. She earned both a Bachelor’s and a master’s degree in political science and African studies and, prior to her position at the Office of Higher Education Didactics in Saxony, worked as a teacher at a vocational special education school and as a research assistant on various projects addressing the intersection of digitization and teaching at the Center for Open Digital Innovation and Participationat the Technical University of Dresden and with the E-Learning Working Group of the Saxony State Rectors’ Conference.
Contact
Daniel Winkler, Higher Education Pedagogy Specialist at the HSZG