Katharina Poltze joined the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media in May 2020 as a researcher in the Media | Transformation department. She is a doctoral student in the project FaBuLoUS: supporting schools by teaching and learning in Fablabs - the key to integrating formal and informal education?.
She researches education and media in school and non-school contexts as well as methods in (Fab) labs and maker spaces as postdigital spaces for teaching and learning. She works particularly with ethnographic, participative and design-based research methods.
Katharina Poltze completed her bachelor’s degree in social sciences at the Georg August University in Göttingen where she also completed her master’s in education studies, in which she focussed on research into education, professionalization and socialisation. Her master’s thesis explored processes of communicatively networked formation of relationships in the context of dating apps.
During her studies she work as a student assistant in a number of areas and research projects at the Institute for Educational Science in Göttingen and worked as a tutor in education research projects examining digital education, and media and design research. After completing her studies she worked from January to April 2020 as a researcher at the same Institute in the area for ‘Media research focussing on educational media’.
Presentations and other Activities (Selection)
- 21.03.23 – Postdigital Storytelling im FabLab –presentation at the workshop ‘Zukünfte gestalten. Kinder und Jugendliche im FabLab’ held by the FaBuLoUS-Verbundprojekts, University of Bremen.
- 30.08. - 01.09.2022 – Organisational and design support for the 17th Participatory Design Conference (PDC2022) as a student volunteer at Newcastle University (UK).
- 26.11.21 – Bildung postdigital, postkolonial und planetarisch: Partizipative Ansätze zum ökologisch-verantwortlichen Medienhandeln – With Felicitas Macgilchrist, Alexa Kreissl and Nina Grünberger. Session during Participation Week of the LeibnizWissenschaftsCampus Postdigitale Partizipation.
- 01.10.2021 – Fachdisziplinäre Forschungsfoki auf FabLab und Schule, EdTech Research Forum 2021. With Iris Bockermann, Linya Coers, Karin Demuth and Elisa Dittbrenner. https://digi-ebf.de/system/files/2021-10/Präsentation%20Fabulous.pdf).
- 17.09.2021 – Gonna be Fabulous? FabLabs, Design und Partizipation in postdigitalen Bildungskontexten – Presentation at the PhD forum of the Jungen Netzwerks Medienpädagogik (DGfE) and the Nachwuchsgruppe Medienpädagogik (DGPuK) at their joint autumn conference #mpaed2021.
Publications
'Erfahrungen des Partizipierens. Reflexionen zu partizipativen Forschungs- und Gestaltungsprozessen'. In Bildungsforschung 2022(2). 1-14. https://doi.org/10.25539/bildungsforschung.v0i2.900 (open access) (peer reviewed), 2022 (with Karin Demuth, Sabrin Eke, Antje Moebus, and Felicitas Macgilchrist).
'Being Home', 'The Last Year', 'Behind the Mask', 'What is in the West of Westeros?', 'The Secret of Pixies'. In: Gibbs, L. (ed.): Tiny Tales from the Digital Pedagogy Lab 2021: A Book of 100-Word Stories (and Shorter). 8,11,13,132,148-149. https://microfables.blogspot.com/2021/08/tiny-tales-from-dpl-2021.html (open access) 2021.
'Dating-Apps im intersubjektiven Geschehen: Tinder, Grindr und Co. als Optionen der Beziehungsinitiierung'. In ZQF – Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 1-2020, 69-85. doi.org/10.3224/zqf.v21i1.05 (peer reviewed), 2020. (with Matthias Völcker, Sascha Landeck, Melanie Schreck and Denise Heinemeyer.
'Forschung: Von Qualifikationsarbeiten bis zu Drittmittelförderung'. In Bers, Christiana (ed.), 100 Jahre Erziehungswissenschaft an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1920-2020. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Studien, Band 4, 81-89. (available online) 2020.
