Franziska Wächter
Franziska Wächter, (PhD), female, is Professor of Sociology and Empirical Research Methods at Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Dresden/Germany. She studied sociology, economics and organisational psychology at the University of Munich. From 2000 to 2010, she was scientific researcher at the German Youth Institute in Munich. From 2006 to 2010, she was Professor of Sociology at the University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her main research interest is on youth and politics/ political participation and orientation, with a focus on disadvantaged young people, migrants, young people in poor neighbourhoods (social space/network analysis), media use and international relations in teaching and research at higher education institutions.
Sessions
Under the lead of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany) the trinational project "(In)Visible Women in Social Sciences and Social Work" (www.womeninsocialsciences.eu) was carried out. The presentation will focus on a) the academic and creative collaboration of the student’s groups, b) evaluation results on challenges and successes in intercultural collaboration, c) development of the comics.
Students learning in an international digital space can experience tension and even panic. Leaning on the conceptual framework of Barlow’s (2007) Third Space which is characterized as a precondition for the articulation of cultural differences, a space of strangeness. With an adaptation of the Third Space to International digital learning, students were able to reflect on their feelings, thoughts and re- examine beliefs and original perceptions .