Address & Contact

Xylanderstraße 1
Building: Xy
Room: 3.22
76829 Landau

Contact details

+49 634128036760

esther.roecher[at]rPTU.de

Consultation hours

by personal appointment by e-mail

Esther Röcher


About the person

Professional experience

Social pedagogical specialist

April 2025 - January 2026

Frankfurt Private Institute for Mental Health - Teilhabe GmbH, Frankfurt am Main

Lecturer

October 2025 - current

DHBW Stuttgart for propaedeutics in the degree program Social Work

Democracy trainer

November 2023 - March 2025

Anne Frank Educational Center, Frankfurt am Main

Student assistant

May 2024 - March 2025

Institute for Special Education, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Student Assistant

July 2023 - February 2024

Institute for Secondary Education, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Tandem-Fellow

February 2022 - December 2022

Start with a Friend e. V., Freiburg

Assistant

February 2021 - January 2022

Residential group for people on the autism spectrum, autista Freiburg GmbH, Freiburg

Practical semester

September 2020 - February 2021

Counseling center for people at risk of suicide (Arbeitskreis Leben e. V.), and curative after-school care (WIESE Kinder- und Jugendhilfe GmbH)

European voluntary service

August 2017 - July 2018

Residential group for people with cognitive disabilities, L'Arche À Cognac, France

Education

Master of Arts in Educational Sciences

Gender Studies certificate program

April 2023 - March 2025

Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Grade: 1.1

Bachelor of Arts Philosophy (major)/Ethnology (minor)

November 2020 - March 2023

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

Grade: 1.2

Bachelor of Arts Special Education/Inclusive Education

October 2019 - March 2023

Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg

Grade: 1.2

Bachelor's thesis awarded the 2023 Student Prize of the Studierendenwerk Freiburg

Study sponsorship by a political foundation

April 2020 - April 2025

Röcher, E. (2025). Inklusion als Denkbewegung - Annäherungen an eine Kritische Theorie der Inklusion. Lecture at the Frankfurt Philosophers' Colloquium. Frankfurt, 20.11.2025.

Röcher, E. (2025). Critical theory of inclusion. Lecture at the 56th Federal Conference of the Berufs- und Fachverband Heilpädagogik e. V. Erfurt, 8.11.2025.

Röcher, E. (2024). Critical political education in plain language? On the relationship between critical and inclusive political education. Lecture at the conference "Bildung und Emanzipation - Gesellschaftskritische Perspektiven auf Antisemitismus, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Rassismus" at the University of Innsbruck. Innsbruck, 13.11.2024

Röcher, E. (2024). Mental health in climate hell - A critical discourse analysis of the German-language psychological discourse on climate resilience. Sociology Magazine, 17(1). 26–49. https://doi. org/10.3224/soz.v17i1.03

Inclusion as Critique and Critique of Inclusion - Contours of a Critical Theory of Inclusion

Initial supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meseth

Main research areas

  • Inclusion and participation in educational processes
  • Educational and social theory perspectives on inclusion and disability
  • Critical theory of the Frankfurt School
  • (Critical) Disability Studies
  • Inclusive political education
  • BA LA 1.5: Theories of special education