Look at us: Pioneering women in the social sciences - A trinational virtual teaching project
12-01, 10:45–11:15 (Europe/Berlin), Virtual Stage, BBAW

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.


As part of the DAAD IVAC programme, the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany), together with the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria), carried out the tri-national, interdisciplinary teaching project "(In)Visible Women in Social Sciences and Social Work" over two semesters. The aim of the collaborative work is to make a set of four "educational/ information comics" available on a website (to the participating universities and beyond) as an OER (open source resource) after completion of the cooperation. The topic of the joint course is embedded in the discourses and approaches of social, ecological and societal transformation, which are also anchored in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially in the pillars of "Gender Equality" and "Quality Education". To prepare students well for their future work in diverse (digital) teams, interdisciplinary and international knowledge and competences are necessary. The students worked together in project teams, partly homogeneous, partly heterogeneous, digitally and in presence. The aim for the students was to contribute their specific theoretical knowledge on “their topics” (Finnland: Social Policy and international perspectives to Social Services, Austria: Gender and Diversity in organizations, Germany: Social research, in contexts of social work) and to link it with the knowledge and competences of students from other disciplines and cultural contexts. In this way, the female scientists biographies could be analyzed and presented from different perspectives. The presentation will focus on three main aspects: a) procedures in the academic and creative collaboration of the student groups of the three universities, b) evaluation results on challenges and successes in intercultural team collaboration, c) presentation of the development and insight into the information comics (Jahoda, Webb, Swaine Thomas, Granqvist).

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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.

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