From September 18 to 20, the Chair of Transformation of Governance in Education and Society hosted a 3-day international summer school at Helmut Schmidt University. The aim of the event was to introduce young researchers to different methodological perspectives on how qualitative educational research can address increasingly datafied and algorithmized…

Prof Dr Sigrid Hartong and M.A. Nina Brandau are organising a summer school at the HSU Hamburg, which will take place from September 18-20, 2023. The summer school offers a forum for emerging scholars (PhD students and Postdocs) to systematically engage with different methods of qualitative research in/of/through algorithmic environments.…

Together with Mathias Decuypere and Karmijn van de Oudeweetering, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong published a special issue of the European Educational Research Journal. The issue called "Space- and time-making in education: Towards a topological lens" is concerned with the research approach of (social) topology. This approach has its origins in…

Building on our first meeting in 2020, we are happy to announce that a second workshop will take place next week, September 17 and 18, 2021. The upcoming PreGov II workshop continues to explore the increasing digitalization of public governance and how new forms of datafication, quantification, and automation enable…

For the new (German) book by Ralf Lankau "Autonom und mündig am Touchscreen. Für eine konstruktive Medienarbeit in der Schule" the initiative UNBLACK THE BOX contributed a chapter. You can find a part of the book and a list of all chapters on the publishers page for free. If you…

Journal 03/2021 features contributions by Sigrid Hartong, Annina Förschler and Vito Dabisch. Articles of this issue highlight why it is essential to take a more critical look at data infrastructures in educational governance, the growing political influence of private (EdTech) actors and how data infrastructures challenge international-comparative research. The new…

In its dossier "Digital School: Lessons from the Pandemic", the Heinrich Böll Foundation brings together transatlantic experts to discuss and share their perspectives on the effects of the recent pandemic on schooling. With her contribution "Quality, not speed, is what we need" Sigrid Hartong argues for a sustainable, pedagogically and…

On March 18th 2021, the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Research Lab on Digital Education Governance at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität (HSU) in Hamburg hosted an exciting online event to explore strategies for building data literacy with the teaching profession at global scale. A workshop report, the recorded keynote presentations as…