Dcotoral and Post-Doctoral Works and Projects

Policy transfer in vocational education and training: A theoretical and empirical analysis of the possibilities and limitations of the South-South cooperation approach in international vocational education and training cooperation.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Professional recognition and labor market integration of immigrant skilled workers in Germany - crediting and recognition mechanisms in the vocational training system in the field of tension between permeability and selection.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Forms of schooling in vocational training - block teaching vs. part-time teaching - using the example of training in banking

Supervision: Junior Professor Dr. Silke Lange

The impact of the competency-based approach in Vocational Education and Training on teaching: a cross-national comparison of the Russian and German teachers' perspectives.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Subjective interpretations of occupational biographies. An analysis of individual cases using the repertory grid technique.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Curriculum development for the further training of teachers in higher vocational education in China.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Experiential and learning processes in the lifeworld context of nursing staff.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bals

Participation of multinational corporations in local vocational education. A comparison between German and Chinese enterprises.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

On the professional skills development of in-company training staff in the healthcare professions. A vocational pedagogical analysis of the actions of practical instructors.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Paradigm pluralism in vocational training research. A reconstruction of Jürgen Zabeck's program with critical and understanding intentions.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Industrial teacher training - a provisional solution with tradition? Metaphorical concepts in the discourse on the shortage of teachers in the industrial-technical sector in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Vocational and business education for sustainable development.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bals

Doctorate
Pathways into care: Reconstruction of biographical trajectories and orientations of formally low-skilled care workers.

 About the integration of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in systems of innovation: a critical discourse analysis and comparative study across Brazil and Germany

Supervision: Prof. Dr.  Dietmar Frommberger

 Personnel competence in commercial fields of activity using the example of leadership behavior - identification and development of relevant further training elements for pharmaceutical sales

Supervision: Prof. Dr.  Dietmar Frommberger

 Development of a digital game-based learning application in higher education - conditioning factors for the learning motivation of students of vocational and business education

Supervision: Prof. Dr.  Thomas Bals

 Political participation of business organizations in the constrution of the technical vocational education and training system in Costa Rica between 1980 and 2021

Supervision: Prof. Dr.  Dietmar Frommberger

Doctorate
Personalities for tomorrow's healthcare: Relevance and development of personal skills in health-related study programs and interprofessional application

 The influence of the Bologna Process on teacher training policy.

Supervision: Prof. Dr.  Dietmar Frommberger

Doctorate
 Conditions for a successful preparatory period of service prior to qualifying for the Vocational Teacher Education - an empirical study on the views of subject leaders.

Doctorate
 Learning through stays abroad in vocational training. An empirical study on the learning potential of international mobility

Doctorate
 Career choice under the conditions of refugee migration.

Doctorate
 The initial vocational training phase. Requirements for trainees and their coping strategies using the example of the automotive mechatronics trade

Doctorate
Educational paths and orientations of students of Vocational Teacher Education.

Doctorate
Possibilities of integrating primary prevention content and teacher training - development and testing of a resource carrier for prospective and vocationally qualified teachers at vocational schools and a competence carrier for the vocational preparation year.

Doctorate
 The status (quo) of VET in Brazil: An empirical study about its function, meaning and impingements from the perspective of former dual system apprentices

Doctorate
Vocational training for paramedics. Evaluation study on the training quality of a new occupational profile.

Doctorate
Training dropout and biography - On processes, mechanisms and interactions in the life courses of people with premature contract termination in vocational training.

Doctorate
 Quality of in-company vocational training in Germany. Further development of previous approaches to modeling from a company perspective.

Doctorate
 Biographical career orientations of automotive mechatronics technicians in Germany and England - a qualitative comparative study.

Doctorate
Mothers in management positions - A qualitative study on biographical positioning in professional and private life and their dynamics

Habilitation
Education and employment orientation. Explorations and milestones of a theory of structural employment formation.