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Children / Young People

Dr. Norbert Dittmar
Professor of Linguistics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition

Pohlstraße 5, 10785 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Problems of linguistic unification
  • Minority languages
  • Bilingualism
  • Berlin: urban language
  • Youth language
  • Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
  • Conversational behavior, in groups and conflicts

Dr. Bettina Hannover
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Department of Education
Research on Schools and Teaching

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Differential development of girls and boys
  • Gender roles, family
  • Influence of the parental home
  • Violence
  • Adolescents
  • Nursery schools and schools
  • Academic development of children and young people with immigrant background
  • Self and identity

Dr. Hans Merkens
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Empirical Education

Fabeckstraße 69, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Transformation of the education system
  • Youth violence
  • Problems in teaching children with migration background
  • Situation of immigrant children in elementary and secondary education
  • Multi-track systems in secondary education
  • Success of structural changes in the school system

Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

Language, Emotion and Movement

  • Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

  • Early acquisition of foreign languages
  • Mixed-age learning settings
  • English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

Dr. Thomas Stodulka
Professor of Anthropology

Department of Politcal and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Landoltweg 9 - 11, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture
  • “Street children”
  • Emotions
  • Affects
  • Stigmatization
  • Childhood
  • Youth
  • Indonesia
  • Culture and mental illness
  • Social inequality
  • Ethnography