Research focus

Socio-ecological sustainability through transformative education

Individualized educational concepts for "sustainable development" will be contrasted with a transformative concept of education that focuses on political and trade union education in social services, the educational sector as well as health care.

In this way, it will be possible to conceptually and empirically examine conflicts and contradictions between ecological and social sustainability goals for selected fields of transformative education.

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Supervisors

Research assistant

Eva Küssner
Dissertation project: "You can't do without conflict - conflict as a task of political education" (working title)

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Accessibility and participation in open space, urban and landscape planning

The tension between the individual and society is to be reflected using the example of the planning and design of public green, urban and landscape spaces. Justice-related questions of accessibility and participation arise both with regard to the results of planning and with regard to the corresponding processes. This involves, for example, the interaction of living and working in post-pandemic times, the overlapping of environmental pollution and social disadvantages, and the development of fundamentally inclusive planning approaches.

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Research assistant

Yvonne Wechuli

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The importance of diversity and inclusion for sustainable businesses and supply chains

Intra- and inter-company justice and related socio-ecological processes of transformation can be achieved through resilient diversity management. The challenges of inclusion-, justice-, and diversity-promoting approaches along the value chain are to be explored with regard to a conflictual environment for companies and employees that cannot escape the crises and wars of the time.

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Supervisors

Research assistant

Anna Schlüter

Social and sustainable institutions

Social, economic and cultural sustainability has to be understood as a prerequisite for ecological sustainability. Only with resilient institutions of a social and democratic state, subject to the rule of law, measured by material outcomes in terms of freedom, equality and solidarity, can conflicts between individual and collective rationality be resolved, especially in regions of structural change. Legal and democratic theoretical concepts must be developed and evaluated.

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Research assistant

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