About the person
Course of education | |
2003 | Training as a state-recognized occupational therapist Maximiliansau |
2012 | First state examination to become a teacher at a special school University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau campus Major subject: Primary school education 1st area of study: Education for the learning disabled 2nd area of study: Education for the physically disabled |
2014 | Second state examination Studienseminar Kaiserslautern |
Main professional fields of work | |
Non-university | |
2004 - | Occupational therapist Focus of work: pediatrics and neurology |
| since 2014 | Lecturer for the distance learning course in curative education at the Catholic Adult Education Center Topics: "Partial performance disorder - clarification of terms, diagnostics and support", "Support planning" and "Integration/inclusion" |
| 2019 | Special education teacher at the IGS Edigheim |
| 2020 | Project management "Double classroom" Nardini School Germersheim Youth Welfare Office |
University | |
2014 - 2017 | Various teaching assignments at the Institute for Special Education University of Landau |
since 2020 | Secondment as a research assistant Institute for Special Needs Education University of Landau Department of Fundamentals of Special Needs Education |
Marschall, S./ Würtz, E./ Wallinda, K./ Waschulewski, U./ Lindmeier, C. (2024):
The red thread. Cross-phase counseling competence development for special education teachers: A spiral curriculum to promote resource and solution orientation in multiprofessional teams. In: Greiten, Silvia/ Geber-Knopp, Georg/ Gruhn, Annika/ Köninger, Manuela (eds.): Lehrer:innenbildung für Inklusion. University didactic concepts and perspectives". Weinheim/ Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 256-267
Resch, K., Hartmüller, E., Walczuch, S. & Marschall, S. (2023):
Preparing German pre-service teachers in special needs education for school development -
Can we do otherwise? Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs. 00, 1-10,
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/147_3802.12600
Würtz,E., Wallinda, K., Marschall, S., Waschulewski, U. & Lindmeier, C. (2022):
Enabling diversity & participation in inclusive schools through systemic counseling competence! - Cross-phase counseling competence development for special education teachers within a spiral curriculum in Rhineland-Palatinate. In: Grummt, M.; Kulig, W., Lindmeier, C. Oelze, V.; Sallat, S. (Eds.):[together with Marek Grummt, Wolfram Kulig, Vera Oelze, Stephan Sallat] Participation, knowledge and communication in special educational discourse (pp. 188-195). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
Marschall, S., Würtz, E., Wallinda, K., Waschulewski, U. & Lindmeier, C. (2022):
Promoting counseling competence - a concept of cross-phase support.
Cross-phase systemic counseling competence development of special education teachers in Rhineland-Palatinate. PFLB - PraxisForschungLehrer*innenBildung, 4 (3), 185-197.
https://doi.org/10.11576/pflb-5413
Marschall, S., Trittmann, W., Hartmüller, E. & Resch, K. (2022):
Recognition ethical aspects in special educational diagnostics in the learning support focus.
A critical analysis. In M. Gebhardt, D. Scheer & M. Schurig (Eds.), Handbuch der sonderpädagogischen Diagnostik.
Grundlagen und Konzepte der Statusdiagnostik, Prozessdiagnostik und Förderplanung (pp. 67-80). Regensburg: University Library.
https://doi.org/10.5283/epub.53149
Wallinda, K., Würtz, E., Waschulewski, U., Marschall, S., Lindmeier, C. (2022):
"Developing counseling skills for inclusion iteratively. Spiral curriculum in practice!". In: Journal for Teacher Education, 22 (2), 52- 64.
http://d oi.org/10.35468/jlb-02-2022-04
Marschall, S. (July 16, 2026):
Transformative Education in Higher Education at RPTU – Practical Examples from Module 1 of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Teacher Education
Keynote presentation as part of the RPTU Transfer Day – Workshop “ESD in Teaching”
The presentation explored the concept of transformative education according to Mezirow (1978) and conceptually distinguished it from transformative learning as well as from additive educational approaches, emphasizing the necessary educational science foundation as opposed to purely politically driven applications (WBGU 2011). Using the example of two seminars from Module 1 of the Bachelor’s program in Teacher Education (1.7 “Professional Practice of Teachers at the Intersection of Special Education Support and Inclusive Education” and 1.8 “Special Education Counseling in Inclusive Settings (SoBiS)”) at RPTU, it was demonstrated how biographical work, systemic counseling skills, and non-judgmental spaces for reflection enable prospective teachers to shift their perspectives and develop new attitudes. The practical examples were linked to the Future Skills framework, as well as to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Inner Development Goals. In conclusion, four principles common to both seminar formats were identified—ambiguity competence, reflective capacity, counseling competence, and self-efficacy—which underpin transformative educational processes in teacher education.
Here is the link to the presentation by the Transfer, Innovation, and Sustainability Department for the Transfer Day at RPTU:
https://rptu.de/ueber-die-rptu/organisation/referate/rtin/transfer/rptu-transfertag
- Holistic school development in the sense of developing potential
- Relationship-oriented pedagogy: alternative concepts of relationship-oriented educational spaces
- (Systemic) counselling skills as a core ability of pedagogical professionalization in the school context
- Advanced diagnostic competence development in learning support in the professionalization process of teacher training
- Attitudinal confusion as a starting point for reflexive reorientation and transformative orientation of pedagogical work: exemplified by the Bildungsbrief - learning from within
