Master's degree in educational sciences (minor subjects: psychology, sociology) at the Free University of Berlin

Doctorate in educational science

Research assistant Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)

Promotion of social and moral skills at school, democracy education, research on interdisciplinary educational goals, psychological moral research, socialization research

Wiechmann, J./Becker, G. (2019). Forms of promoting political action skills as part of the school's educational mission? An explorative investigation. (To be published in the journal "Unterrichtswissenschaft".)

Wiechmann, J./Becker, G. (2019). Love of nation and homeland - exploring a problematic objective for our general education school system. (Published in the journal "Pädagogische Rundschau").

Wiechmann, J./Becker, G. (2017). The spectrum of school pedagogical forms of action to promote interdisciplinary goals. Pädagogische Rundschau, 71, H. 2, 137-153.

Wiechmann, J./Becker, G. (2016). The interdisciplinary objectives in the institutional educational mandate of the general education school system. German School, 108, H. 3, 287-305.

Keller, M./Becker, G. (2016). Developing sociomoral sensitivity: an action-based approach. In T. Malti/S.Perren (Eds.), Soziale Kompetenz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Development processes and opportunities for support. 2nd, revised and expanded edition (pp. 111-133). Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer.

Becker, G./Pospesch, L./Wiechmann, J. (2015). Teaching democratic pedagogical skills in university teacher education. A questionnaire study. In S. Hahn/J. Asdonk/D. Pauli/C.T. Zenke (Eds.), Experiencing difference - shaping society. Democracy education in schools (pp. 347-356). Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag.

Becker, G. (2011). Kohlberg and his critics. The topicality of Kohlberg's moral psychology. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Becker, G. (2008). Promoting social, moral and democratic skills. An overview of school support concepts. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Verlag.