The research focus “education as transformation” (BiTra) constitutes the shared emphasis of the departments of pedagogy and didactics, as well as other intra- and inter-faculty collaboration partners.
BiTra deals with research topics related to issues of education from pedagogic, didactic, cultural studies, psychologic, as well as social sciences perspectives.
The challenges of societal transformation also influence contemporary and future understandings of education.
Therefore, working in interdisciplinary networks, this research emphasis targets the meaning, goals, contents, processes, and conditions for the success of formal, non-formal, and informal types of education regarding an entire lifespan.
Research encompasses five subfields that are multilaterally connected among each other, to other departments at the FAU (for instance via ZiLL and IZÄB), and to other national and international institutions.