Conference in Saarbrücken: New perspectives for teacher training!

Conference in Saarbrücken: New perspectives for teacher training!

From September 1st to 3rd, 2025, the Society for Subject Didactics (GFD) will hold its annual conference at Saarland University with the motto “Perspectives in Subject Didactics – Interfaces, Transitions, Networks”. The event promises an intensive examination of the challenges and opportunities that arise from cooperation between different didactics. Didacticians from all over Germany are expected to take part in this important conference. Loud uni-saarland.de The focus is on topics such as sustainability, digitalization, language education, democracy and politics.

The conference aims to sensitize students to interdisciplinary discourses and to develop concrete ways to improve teacher training. Professor Markus Peschel, who leads the conference together with a cross-faculty committee, emphasizes the importance of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary cooperation. In this regard, the results of current research projects that analyze the influence of collaboration between subject didactics on teacher training are also discussed.

Thematic focuses and lectures

The conference will offer a variety of formats, including short lectures, symposiums, workshops and poster presentations. The opening will take place on September 1st at 1:45 p.m. by Saarland Education Minister Christine Streichert-Clivot as well as the university president Ludger Santen and Professor Markus Peschel. Keynote presentations include contributions from:

• Prof. Dr. Julia Schwanewedel und Prof. Dr. Johannes Meyer: „Schnittstellen gestalten, Transfer ermöglichen – Mehrperspektivische Unterrichtsentwicklung im LemaS-Forschungsverbund“
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Goll: „Anschluss erreicht oder verpasst – Übergänge als Ziel und Herausforderung in der Logik von Unterrichtsfächern“
• Prof. Dr. Inga Gryl: „Same but different: Allgemeine Fachdidaktik und Vielperspektivität in Zeiten globaler Schlüsselprobleme“

Particularly in the context of teacher training, it is crucial to network the different disciplines with one another. The goal is curricular integration, as is also sought in the projects of the Quality Offensive for Teacher Training (QLB), which are intended to promote interdisciplinary collaboration. The universities in Germany are faced with the challenge of developing a coherent teacher training program that prepares the subject's own knowledge didactically and takes the students' living environments into account qualitaetsoffensive-lehrbildung.de is explained.

Participation and registration

The conference is subject to a fee and interested parties have the opportunity to submit contributions until March 15, 2025. Contribution formats include short lectures, workshops, symposiums and posters. Each post format has specific requirements. For example, short lectures are limited to 30 minutes (20 minutes lecture, 10 minutes discussion). The submitted contributions are selected based on their fit and quality.

In summary, it can be said that the GFD conference represents an important step in the didactic discussion and teacher training. Not only the diversity of topics, but also the interdisciplinary orientation and the networking of different disciplines will be crucial to mastering the challenges of the current educational landscape.