News
Dissertation Publication by Dr Jascha Hook
2025
Dear readers,
We are pleased to announce that our former research assistant Dr Jascha Hook has published his dissertation with Barbara Budrich Verlag as a monograph in the Qualitative Fall- und Prozessanalysen series (Volume 32).
Hook, J. (2025). Biographische Fundierungen pädagogischer Professionalität. Eine qualitative Studie zur Herausbildung der professionellen Orientierungen von Politiklehrkräften der Jahrgänge 1935 bis 1945. Barbara Budrich Publisher.
Visitors from Japan!
September 2025
In autumn, Japanese students from Takasaki University for Health and Welfare (TUHW) visited us for the third time. You can find a detailed report here.
Within the realm of the project, led by Prof. Dr. Angelo Van Gorp and Dr. Ami Kobayashi (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Lisa Rosen), students from Japan and Germany gather to discuss the ‘ideal school’. Next spring (20 May to 1 April), a study trip by RPTU students to Takasaki, Japan, is planned for the first time.
A warm welcome to our Humboldt-Fellows!
September 2025
Dear readers,
We are delighted to welcome Dr Reisla Silva and Dr Véra Léon to our History of Education Research Unit. Both are conducting research at our university's Department of Educational Sciences as research fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr Silva is undertaking research on Decroly and investigating his adoption in Portugal and Brazil from the 1930s to the 1960s. Dr Léon is focusing on educational ecologies in connection with feminist photography.
Our new student assistant
July 2025
Hello dear reader!
I don't have an academic background yet – one is currently in the works 🙂 Since the 2024 winter semester, I have been studying for a double bachelor's degree in general education and ecology, and since July 2025, I have been employed as a student assistant by Prof. Dr. Angelo Van Gorp. At the moment, I am immersing myself in the work of John Dewey, and I have already been promised further interesting and organisational tasks: so it remains exciting!
Stefanie Bär
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Our new research assistants
April 2025
Dear readers,
We would like to introduce our new research assistants, Paulina Päckert, M.A., and Marlene Jäger, StEx..Under the supervision of our head of department, Prof. Dr. Angelo Van Gorp, both are working on their respective dissertation projects. While Paulina Päckert is focusing on so-called care leavers, Marlene Jäger is concentrating on former agricultural students. Both are also involved in teaching in the Department of Educational Sciences.
Research Seminar: In search of Ovide Decroly as a European educator
From the 6th to 9th May 2023, Prof. Maria del Mar del Pozo Andrés (University of Alcalá, Spain) and Assoc. Prof. Sjaak Braster (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands) visited Landau to launch an international research collaboration that will offer a transnational perspective on the reception and appropriation of Ovide Decroly's educational ideas in Europe. Interested parties should contact Professor Angelo Van Gorp.
Prof. Dr. Van Gorp has been elected scout of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
In 2022, Professor Angelo Van Gorp has been selected as one of three representatives of the humanities and social sciences in the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. Selection as a scout is recognised as a mark of distinction for researchers with a strong international and innovative profile and special merits in promoting young talent. As a scout, Professor Van Gorp can bring renowned international researchers to Landau with prestigious Humboldt fellowships, thereby strengthening the international appeal and visibility of the RPTU in Landau.
Book Shelf
Frederik Herman, Sjaak Braster & Maria del Mar del Pozo Andrés (Eds.). (2022). Exhibiting the past: Public histories of education. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon & Angelo Van Gorp (2022). Ovide Decroly (1871-1932). Une approche atypique?(Theory and History of Education Monograph Series, Vol. 4). Kingston, Ontario: Theory and History of Education International Research Group, Queen’s University/Queens Library.
This publication is available as a free eBook via the following link: https://queens.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/qulp/catalog/book/222.
Angelo Van Gorp, Frank Simon & Marc Depaepe (2022). Ovide Decroly (1871–1932): Panoramische biografie en bibliografie. Panoramic Biography and Bibliography. Landau: s.n.
This publication serves as a supplement to the above-mentioned Decroly biography and is available for free download on ResearchGate via the first author's page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelo-Van-Gorp/research.
Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde, Geert Thyssen, Frederik Herman, Angelo Van Gorp & Pieter Verstraete (Eds.). (2021). Folds of past, present and future: Reconfiguring contemporary histories of education. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Since 2023 also available as paperback.