Laura Chihab
Research assistant
Member of the Geography Didactics working group
Research focus: Racism-critical professional skills development of geography teachers, racism-critical educational processes in digitality, documentary method, cross-curricular and cross-phase teacher education
Laura Chihab has been working as a research assistant in the Geography Didactics working group at the Institute of Geography since 2023. In her doctoral project, she deals with professionalization processes of prospective geography teachers that are critical of racism. In particular, she is looking at informal learning processes in the context of digitality.
Laura Chihab studied Geography and English as a Secondary Teacher Education (Gymnasium) at the University of Frankfurt am Main from 2012 to 2017. Since January 2019, she has been working there as a research assistant at the Institute of Human Geography in the Geography and its Didactics working group. Initially, she worked here on the project "The Next Level - Networked Development of Teacher Education" in the social science-historical subject network on the planning and implementation of cross-disciplinary and cross-phase educational formats for teachers at all stages of education and training. Since March 2023, she has also been coordinating the DigiTeLL sub-project "LearnTeaMS - Learning and Teaching in Migration Societies", which develops and implements interdisciplinary self-learning tools for an Open Educational Resource (OER) in the context of racism and media-critical teaching and evaluates them with regard to their transferability and dissemination for teacher and university education.
Chihab, L. (2024). Between everyday life, assault and structural recognition. Reflections on working with young people "after Hanau". In: Becker, R., Milbradt, B., Damat, G., Georg, E. & Johann, T. (eds.) Lessons learned? The right-wing terrorist attacks in Halle and Hanau: Coping and coming to terms with them through civil society and politics, education and counseling. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag.
Chihab, L.; Kanwischer, D. (2023). Racism & social media: Dimensions of critical-reflexive professional skills development of geography teachers in the digital migration society. GW-Unterricht 169(1), pp. 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht169s22
McLean, P.; Jehle, M.; Chihab, L.; Dorsch, C.; Messner, M. T. (submitted). From conceptualizing a reflection matrix to discussing structural tensions in social studies teacher education. Journal for pedagogy.
Chihab, L. (2020). Teacher education from a single source? Interaction dynamics in cross-phase learning arrangements on the topic of "Inter- and Transcultural Learning". OpenSpaces - Journal for Didactics of Geography. https://uni-duisburg-essen.sciebo.de/s/9OcPgz1SPB9ux8Z
Adl-Amini, K.; Burgwald, C.; Haas, S.; Beck, M.; Chihab, L.; Fetzer, M.; Lorenzen, M., Niesen, H.; Sührig, L.; Hardy, I. (2020). Didactic perspectives on inclusion. Development and evaluation of a digital learning unit on inclusion as a cross-sectional task in teacher training. k:ON - Kölner Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/k_ON/article/view/292/578
Chihab, L.; K. Herrmann; E. Nöthen; A. Schlottmann (2020). Of Skyscrapers and Windmills: Enhancing Intercultural Learning by utilizing four Key Spatial Concepts. The Geography Teacher. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19338341.2019.1680412
The Next Level: Networked development of teacher training
Duration: 01/2019 - 08/2022
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Position: Research assistant in the social science and history subject network
LearnTeaMS - Learning and Teaching in Migration Societies
Duration: 04/2023 - 03/2024
Funding: Partnership funding as part of the DigiTeLL project
Function: Application and coordination
| 23.11.2023 | "Digital platforms and AI in (transport) logistics - changing work and co-determination", 3rd Schaffarei conference on technology assessment from a workers' perspective, Feldkirch (AT). |
| 23.09.2023 | A city remembers? (Struggles for) places of remembrance after the right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau, excursion at the German Congress of Geography (DKG), Frankfurt am Main. |
| 16.02.2023 | Workshop for pupils: What does racism have to do with geography? Learning to see the world anew with geography, Hohe Landesschule Hanau. |
| 07.-09.10.2022 | Orientations of prospective geography teachers as conditions for critical-reflective professional skills development in the digital migration society. Symposium of the University Association for Geography Didactics (HGD), Lucerne. |
| 06.-07.10.2022 | Racism-critical professional skills development of geography teachers in digitality: Orientations between migration society positioning, social media and educational institutional norms. Conference of the Commission "School Research and its Didactics" of the German Society for Education Science (DGfE), Mainz. |
| 11., 18., & 25.11.2022 | Cross-phase teacher training: In the Net of the New Right: Racism and social media in the classroom, "lea - gemeinnützige Bildungsgesellschaft mbH" of GEW Hessen. |
| 03.-06.09.2021 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Society - Building Integrative Research and Learning Communities in Contexts of Social Science Teacher Education. Conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA), Geneva. (together with May Jehle, Maria Theresa Meßner & Philipp McLean). |
| 28.-30.06.2021 | Race and Racism on Social Networks: Teachers' Attitudes. International Association of Intercultural Education: Intercultural Education in an Age of Information and Disinformation, Tel Aviv. |
| 18.11. & 25.11. & 01.12.2021 | Cross-phase teacher training: #Rassismus: rassismusrelevante Diskurse in sozialen Netzwerken im gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Unterricht, Goethe-Lehrkräfteakademie (together with Christian Dorsch). |
| 03.05., 10.05. & 17.05.2021 | Cross-phase teacher training: #Rassismus: rassismusrelevante Diskurse in sozialen Netzwerken im gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Unterricht, "lea - gemeinnützige Bildungsgesellschaft mbH" der GEW Hessen (together with Christian Dorsch). |
| 24.11., 04.12. & 11.12.2020 | Cross-phase teacher training: #Rassismus: rassismusrelevante Diskurse in sozialen Netzwerken im gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Unterricht, Goethe-Lehrkräfteakademie (together with Christian Dorsch). |
| 28.09.2019 | Geographical teacher education and digital learning contexts - success factors in a cross-phase perspective. German Congress for Geography (DKG), Kiel. |
| 15. & 16.08.2019 | Cross-phase teacher training: Potentials of digital media for intercultural and transcultural learning. |