ANGELIKA PASEKA

Angelika Paseka is a Full Professor for Educational Science with a bias on school education and professionalism at the University of Hamburg. She was born in Vienna in 1957. She studied Mathematics and Geography at the College of Teacher Education in Vienna and became teacher in a Secondary School. She continued with studies in Sociology and Education at the University of Vienna. Angelika Paseka holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Vienna and has a post-doctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in Educational Science. After 17 years lecturing at the College of Teacher Education in Vienna and the Universities of Vienna and Linz she changed to the University of Hamburg in 2010.

Her current research interests are teacher professionalism, family-school-partnership, school-development (with a focus on Gender Mainstreaming) and qualitative methods in educational research. She is co-editor of the ‘Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung’ as well as author and co-author of several publications.

Her recent research project is titled ProfaLe – Promoting Learning in a Changing Society through Professional Teaching. Aim of the project is to study how competences in designing teaching and learning opportunities can be developed during teacher training to ensure that all children can study and learn together. It will also look at how trainee teachers can be effectively and explicitly trained and empowered to perceive inclusion as both a challenge and an opportunity to promote and advance education processes.