Research Projects

• History of the nature-nurture debate (Prof Till Kössler)
• Education, parenting and society in twentieth-century authoritarian regimes (Prof Till Kössler)
• Violence against children: A global historical view on perceptions of the phenomenon, processes of institutional investigation and victim support, and the implications for social policy (Prof Till Kössler)
• ‘Childhood’ and ‘sexuality’ in the modern age (postdoc project, Dr Jens Elberfeld)
• Democratic dispositions: Political and civic education and social change in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-2000 (postdoc project, Dr Phillip Wagner)
• Adoption in West Germany after 1945: A fragile relationship between nature and culture (doctoral research project, Pia Eiringhaus)
• Democracy and schools in the Weimar Republic (doctoral research project, Anne Otto)
• The development of the Hauptschule and its critique in the West German era of education reform (doctoral research project, Sandra Wenk)
• “Nazis out.” The social controvery about the extreme right in Germany and Europe since 1960 (postdoc project, Dr Janosch Steuwer)
• Druschba! Völkerfreundschaft, Internationalismus und Solidarität in Kindermedien der DDR (doctoral research project, Jessica Dalljo)

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