Prof. Dr. Rita Nikolai
Professor - Internationalisation Coordinator
Comparative Education
| Phone: | +49 821 598 - 4633 |
| Email: | rita.nikolai@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Room: | 2059 (D) |
| Open hours: | Wednesday from 2 pm. to 4 pm. Please book an appointment on my Digicampus profile |
| Address: | Universit?tsstra?e 10, 86159 Augsburg |
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Rita Nikolai Comparative Education? - English
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Secretary:
Katrin Schwab?
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Phone: +49 821 598-2847
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Email: katrin.schwab@uni-a.de
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Curriculum/Vitae
- since 7/2020 Professor for Comparative Education at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Augsburg/Germany
- 04/2020 – 07/2020 Interim Professor for Comparative Education at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Augsburg/Germany
- 04/2017 – 03/2020 Scholarship funded within the framework of the Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation (= DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
During this time, several months of research in:
- Australia (07/2019-08/2019): 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Western Australia (Prof. Martin Forsey) and 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Sydney (Prof. Helen Proctor).
- New Zealand (11/2018-12/2018): Victoria 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Wellington (Prof. Stephen Levine) and 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Waikato (Prof. Martin Thrupp).
- England (01/2018-02/2018): London School of Economics and Political Science (Prof. Anne West) and at 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 College London, Institute for Education (Prof. Susanne Wiborg).
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- 04/2011 – 03/2017 Assistent Professor for System-related School Research (= Juniorprofessur, W1) at the Humboldt-新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin/Germany (evaluation in 2014, considered as habilitation qualification-acchievement)
- 01/2010 – 03/2010 Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 within the exchange programme of the CES and the Social Science Research Center (= WZB, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)/?Germany
- 09/2010 – 11/2010 T.H. Marshall Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences within the framework of the T.H. Marshall Fellowship Programme on European Social Policy of the Volkswagen?Stiftung
- 04/2007 – 03/2011 Head of the Reserch Group "Education and Transitions into the Labour Market“ at the Social Science Reserch Center Berlin (= WZB, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)/?Germany
- 04/2006 – 03/2007 Research Associate of the Director at the Institute for Employment Research (= IAB, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) (Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.)
- 2006 Ph.D. in Political Science (Dr. rer. pol.), Ruprecht-Karls 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Heidelberg/Germany (first supervisor Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt, second supervisor Prof. Dr. Uwe Wagschal)
- 04/2004 – 03/2006 Research Associate in the project "Educational Expenditure in International Comparison", funded by the German Research Foundation (=DFG, Deutsche Forschungs?gemeinschaft) (Head Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt) at the Ruprecht-Karls-新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Heidelberg/Germany
- 2004 – 05 Interim Research Assistent at the chair of Prof. Dr. Manfred G. Schmidt at the Ruprecht-Karls-新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Heidelberg/Germany
- 2004 Magister in Political Science and History (= Politikwissenschaft/?Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), Ruprecht-Karls 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Heidelberg/Germany
- 1998 – 2004 Studies in Political Science and History (= Politikwissenschaft, Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte), Ruprecht-Karls 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Heidelberg/Germany
Main Research Topics
- Educational systems in international and historical comparison
- Educational reforms and policies
- Educational inequalities (especially social origin)
- History and development of public and private school systems in Germany and in international comparison
- Relationships between education and social policy
- Qualitative methods (especially analyses of expert interviews) and quantitative methods (especially analyses with data from official statistics)
Courses / teaching
(applied filters: semester: current | lecturers: Rita Nikolai | course types: all)
| name | semester | type |
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| Oberseminar: Forschungskolloquium für Doktorand:innen und Habilitand:innen | winter semester 2024/25 | Oberseminar |
| M.A. Schwerpunktmodul 2 - Heterogenit?tsdimensionen | winter semester 2024/25 | Seminar |
| B.A. Methodenmodul 1 - Vorlesung Qualitative Forschung | winter semester 2024/25 | Vorlesung |
| B.A. Vertiefungsmodul 2 - Konzepte und Arbeitsmethoden - Bildungspolitischer Schwerpunkt | winter semester 2024/25 | Seminar |
| M.A. Methodenmodul 1 - Qualitative Forschung | winter semester 2024/25 | Seminar |
| Lehrendenaustausch_Rinvorlesung_Umgang mit Heterogenit?t | winter semester 2024/25 | Projekt |
| Lehrerkompetenzen im Umgang mit Heterogenit?t | winter semester 2024/25 | Vorlesung |
Publications
NOTES ON FINAL THESIS (B.A. and M.A.)
If you are interested in me supervising your final thesis (Bachelor or Master), you should have attended a course of mine in order to develop a topic and a research question. The topic of the thesis should be discussed with me early on and presented by a short synopsis during visiting hours.
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I supervise thesis projects (Bachelor or Master) on the following topics:
- Educational systems in international and historical comparison
- Educational reforms and policies in Germany and other countries
- Educational inequalities (especially social origin) in Germany and in international comparison
- History and development of public and private school systems in international comparison
- Relationships between education and social policy
- Qualitative methods (especially analyses of expert interviews with education policy actors and analyses of official and non-official documents)
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SUPERVISION OF DISSERTATIONS AND HABILITATIONS
Prof. Rita Nikolai is the spokesperson (together with Prof. Elisabeth Meilhammer) of the doctoral program "Erziehungswissenschaften" ("Educational Sciences") and is also involved in the doctoral program "Empirische Bildungswissenschaften" ("Empirical Educational Sciences") at the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences (GSS) of the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg.
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Ongoing doctoral theses (first supervisor)
- Akhoondi-Loft, Anja: Inklusion in der Lehrkr?ftebildung – Der Einfluss von Kommunikation bei der bildungspolitischen Umsetzung von Inklusion am Beispiel des Berliner Lehrkr?ftebildungsgesetzes. Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (first supervisor; Scholarship holder of Hans-B?ckler-Foundation).
- Braun Lambur, Jana: Die Stagnation beim Bundeszentralabitur in den deutschen L?ndern (first supervisor; Research Assistant at Koblenz-Landau 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】).
- Diouf, Siga: Ownership or Donorship? Results and Ownership in German and Senegalese Development Cooperation: A Case Study on TVET in Senegal (first supervisor, DAAD-Scholarship).
- Narbakova, Aliya: Higher Education Politics: Development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (first supervisor; Staff member at the German Center for Research on Science and Higher Education (DZHW)).
- Schmidt, Laura: Die institutionalisierte F?rderung von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Entwicklungsst?rungen schulischer Fertigkeiten im Vergleich (first supervisor).
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Ongoing doctoral theses (second supervisor)
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Ramsperger, Vivian: Darstellung, Analyse und Würdigung der Vergabepraxis von Lernf?rdergutscheinen im Rahmen des Bildung- und Teilhabepakets. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Matthes).
- Urbas, Christopher: Bildungsf?deralismus in Deutschland. Eine Studie zur Entwicklung seit Einführung des Kooperationsverbots im Jahr 2006 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Einflusses von Digitalisierung auf die politische Debatte. Helmut Schmidt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】/Federal Armed Forces 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Hamburg (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong)
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Yagmur, Sümeyra: Extremismuspr?vention als Aufgabe einer wehrhaften Demokratie. 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Matthes).
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Ongoing habilitations
- ?zdemir, Yusuf: Private school politics in Central and Eastern Europe [cumulative habilitation].
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Completed doctoral theses as first supervisor
- (3) Jenner (geb. Nesyba), Thea (2020): Interessenkonflikte der inklusiven Schule. Eine Fallstudie zu den kollektiven Interessen von Lehrkr?ften, Sonderp?dagog_innen, Eltern und Schülerschaft und den Strategien ihrer Interessenvermittlung in der nieders?chsischen Schulpolitik, Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vera Moser; Scholarship holder of the German Economy Foundation).
- (2) Kennedy-Salchow, Shana (2018): The Role of Business Foundations in Education in the U.S. and Germany: Converging Roles and Activities? Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nina Kolleck).
- (1) Anusiewicz-Baer, Sandra (2016): Ein Biotop jüdischer Mehrheitsgesellschaft: Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Jüdischer Schulbildung und Identit?tskonstruktion am Beispiel der Absolventinnen und Absolventen der Jüdischen Oberschule in Berlin (first supervisor; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik; Scholarship holder of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Study Center), awarded the Humboldt Prize 2017 in the category "Judaism and Anti-Semitism"
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Completed doctoral theses as second supervisor, external reviewer and committee membership
- (12) Pultar, Anna (2018): On totemic issues, pragmatism and modernity. Comprehensive schooling and social democratic education policy in England and Austria (1980-2010). 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Edinburgh, Great Britain (supervisors: Prof. Eric Mangez, Dr. Philip Cook, Prof. Dr. Rita Nikolai) [external reviewer in the commission]
- (11) Sass, Katharina (2018): Cleavages and coalitions. Comprehensive school reforms in Norway and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany (1954-1979). 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Bergen, Norway (supervisors: Prof. Harald Jarning (新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Oslo), Prof. Dr. Rita Nikolai) [Position in the commission as ?First Opponent“].
- (10) Mayer, Tanja (2018): ?Das ist einfach dieses, was wir nicht kennen oder nicht wollen“. Einzelschulwahl ?ffentlicher und privater Grundschulen im Kontext von Distinktion, Segregation und sozialer Ungleichheit. Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Koinzer, further second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marten Clausen) [second supervisor].
- (9) Azebiah, Maxwell (2017): The Politics of Educational Reform in Ghana. Educational Policy Change and the Persistence of Academic Bias in Ghana`s Secondary Education System, Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor: Prof. Friedbert Rüb; Scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service) [second supervisor].
- (8) Borges, Sónia Vaz (2016): Militant Education. Liberation struggle, concientization, and underground educational structures in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978. Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso) [second supervisor].
- (7) Rothe, Kerstin (2016): Pragmatismus in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen. Der Diskurs zum Schulkonsens aus demokratietheoretischer Perspektive. Ludwig Maximilian 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 (first supervisor: Prof. Julian Nida-Rümelin) [second supervisor].
- (6) Cr?i?, Jasmina (2016): Gender Mainstreaming im Politikfeld Schule. Eine vergleichende Analyse der Stadtstaaten Berlin, Bremen und Hamburg. Philipps 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Marburg (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Annette Henninger; Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation) [second supervisor].
- (5) Spangenberg, Heike (2016): Konvergenzen oder dauerhafte Unterschiede? Zur Entwicklung der Studienentscheidungen und nachschulischen Bildungsverl?ufe seit 1990 in Ost- und Westdeutschland, Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Horst Weishaupt; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andr? Wolter) [Committee Membership].
- (4) Wiarda, Jan-Martin (2015): Was macht die Beratung mit dem Berater? ?ber die Folgen von Politikberatung für die Wissenschaft am Beispiel des Max-Planck-Instituts für Bildungsforschung, Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen van Buer; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Füssel; external supervision: PD Dr. Gerhard Kluchert) [Committee Membership].
- (3) Kiuppis, Florian (2014): Heterogene Inklusivit?t, inclusive Heterogenit?t: Zum Wandel der Bedeutungen p?dagogischer Konzepte im Verlauf ihrer Entwicklung in der institutionellen Umwelt internationaler Organisationen. Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schriewer, second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ernst von Kardoff, Prof. Dr. Gottfried Biewer, Prof. Dr. Rita Nikolai) [second supervisor].
- (2) Gardin, Matias Edvard (2013): States of education: reflections on the relationship between welfare state and education in Finland and the Federal Republic of Germany 1960-1970. King’s College London (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rita Nikolai, Dr. Kristina Spohr) [external reviewer in the commission].
- (1) Ebner, Christian (2012): Erfolgreich in den Arbeitsmarkt? Die duale Berufsausbildung im internationalen Vergleich. Humboldt 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 Berlin (first supervisor: Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, Ph.D.) [second supervisor].