The degree program consists of compulsory and elective modules. Compulsory modules are Introduction to Pedagogy, Historical and Systematic Foundations of Pedagogy, Pedagogical Research, Pedagogical Fields of Work, Introduction to Pedagogical Fields as well as the internship and the Bachelor’s thesis. Elective modules are Pedagogical Foundations and Pedagogical Research. After the first year of study (i.e. after the second semester), there is a foundation and orientation exam, which is considered passed if at least two modules have been successfully completed. A central element of the study program is the educationally linked thematization, analysis and reflection of social and cultural differentiations in the context of progressive social transformation processes including the associated institutions and organizations (e.g. migration and flight, digitalization, trans-nationalization, social segregation, poverty).

The focus of the degree program in Erlangen is on organizational pedagogy and cultural education.

Generally speaking, organizational pedagogy deals with how to support learning processes in and by organizations. Specifically, this involves tasks in training and further education, in personnel and organizational development, as well as in coaching and organizational consulting.

Arts education aims to enable children, young people and adults to engage with art and culture in all their diversity and thus support them in shaping their lifeworld and in participating in culture and society.

• Interest in educational, social, and labor market policy contexts
• Willingness and ability to read and write a lot (good understanding of texts and good written expression)
• Willingness and ability to deal with technical language and foreign words
• Openness to English-language texts
• Ability to deal independently with more demanding texts in a critical and reflective manner

In the consecutive Master’s degree program “Pedagogy M.A.” you will then have the opportunity to deepen the above-mentioned questions with regard to focal points.

As a professional qualification, the degree program provides competencies for the following fields of activity, among others:

Organizational Pedagogy

• Educational management in the field of continuing education.
• In-company training and continuing education.
• In the personnel and organizational development of companies.
• In general and vocational adult education as lecturers at state or private educational institutions (e.g. adult education centers, educational organizations).
• In educational research (after the master’s degree).

Cultural Education

• In extracurricular youth education
• In cultural educational institutions (e.g. cultural centers)
• In art and cultural institutions (e.g. museums)
• In associations
• In counseling institutions

The goal of educational science training is to enable pedagogically committed thinking, which is concretized in a research-oriented attitude:

• Reflexive-analytical attention to structural contradictions of the pedagogical field of action.
• Critical-descriptive penetration of the interdependent conditions and influences of pedagogical reality and its social-cultural framing.
• Identification and reflection of (one’s own) pedagogical spaces of action and barriers against the background of cultural, habitual, and biographical preconceptions.
• Development of professionalism as a reflexive transformation of the relationship between the self and the world in relation to pedagogical contexts of action
• Enabling spaces of speaking and thinking for oneself and others