The Future of Education

Increasingly individualized teaching contexts require new didactic approaches for designing sustainable learning situations. In this regard, student-centered concepts that focus on individual needs and subjective perceptions of lessons are becoming increasingly important Tetzlaff et al., 2022). The planned contribution presents an innovative methodological approach that uses drawings as a data basis to explore new learning settings from the students’ perspective. The students were given the task of drawing themselves while learning in class. This not only served as a creative stimulus but also provided an opportunity to reflect on their own positioning within the social reality of the school context. Additionally, Objective Hermeneutics is introduced as a qualitative-reconstructive method that makes latent tensions, ambivalences, and individual needs of students visible (Münte et al., 2022). This approach provides deeper insights into students’ subjective experiences and challenges in the classroom, offering valuable findings for the sustainable design of teaching and learning.

Keywords: individualized learning settings, drawings, qualitative-reconstructive social research

REFERENCES

[1] Münte, P., Piberger, J. & Scheid, C. (2022). Kinderzeichnungsanalyse als Chance für die Erforschung von Bildungsprozessen: Ein objektiv-hermeneutischer Zugang zu Kinderzeichnungen [Analysis of Children's Drawings as an Opportunity for Educational Research: An Objective Hermeneutic Approach to Children's Drawings]. In M. Kekeritz & M. Kubandt (Hrsg.), Kinder­zeichnungen in der qualitativen Forschung (S. 129–155). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34885-4_5

[2] Tetzlaff, L., Hartmann, U., Dumont, H. & Brod, G. (2022). Assessing individualized instruction in the classroom: Comparing teacher, student, and observer perspectives, Learning and Instruction, 82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101655