Team
Full Professor for Education with a focus on Media Education
Petra Grell

Prof. Dr. Petra Grell

General education/media education

Contact

work +49 6151 16-23661

Work S1|13 214
Alexanderstr. 6
64283 Darmstadt

Consultation hours

Binding registration for consultation hours with Prof. Dr. Grell takes place via the following DFN service: Consultation hours Information on how to prepare for a consultation hour can be found here: FAQ.

Main areas of work and research

  • Main research areas
    • Education in a digital culture
    • Interactive media in institutional teaching contexts
    • Participation and exclusion
    • Games and gaming experiences in digital worlds
  • Main areas of work/teaching
    • Interactive design of lectures with media (intensified feedback loops)
    • Research-based learning in seminars
    • Integration of case studies
  • Supporting Emerging Researcher / Early Career Researcher
    • Individually Specified Supervision Agreement (with clear guidelines)
    • A five-hour colloquium for doctoral/Phd students of the working group, twice a semester
    • Actively involved in the department’s colloquium for doctoral/Phd students
    • Coaching and Support for Early Career Researcher’s on special tasks or issues beyond working group

Lectures

  • Introduction to Education
  • Teaching and learning with new media

Seminars

  • Media Education
  • Introduction to Research in Social Science
  • Methodologies
  • Theories of “Bildung”

If you plan to take an examination with Prof. Dr. Grell, please register for the consultation hour using the link on the homepage. There is no limit on the number of participants; everyone who wishes to take the examination will be accommodated.

For the oral state examination (30 minutes), please prepare two topics. Bring an overview of the literature you have engaged with during your studies to our first consultation. Simply stating, “I attended lecture XY/seminar YZ…” is insufficient. One week before the exam, you will prepare three to five statements for each topic to trigger the academic dialogue.

For the written examination, you must prepare two (or three) topics. After our consultations and examining your prepared list of literature for each topic, I will prepare three examination questions for your written examination. However, the organising Federal Office will remove one of the topics so you can choose between two questions/tasks for your written examination.

A confident understanding of basic pedagogical concepts is expected during the examination. If you are unsure about which topics you would like to be examined on, here are some topics that students frequently mention:

  • Teaching and learning with media
  • Learning theories
  • Didactic models
  • Digital media in school contexts
  • Mobile learning
  • Teaching and learning with video games
  • Media socialization
  • Media literacy
  • Media education
  • Theories of “Bildung”

Of course, you can suggest individual topics from the whole spectrum of educational science, e.g a certain historic approach you would like to discuss, a specific (social science) theory and its impact on educational science. I am happy to help to develop a specific topic.

Academic career
Since 1.10.2023 Dean of the Department of Human Sciences at the Technical University of Darmstadt
1.10.2022 – 30.9.2023 Managing Director of the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education at the Technical University of Darmstadt
9/2019 – 9/2023 Network’s Representative on Council, European Educational Research Association
10/2017 – 9/2021 Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Technical University of Darmstadt
2/2014 – 1/2017 Managing Director of the Institute for General Education and Vocational Education
9/2013 – 9/2019 Link Convenor of the Network 6 Open Learning, Media, Environments and Cultures of the European Educational Research Association
Since 1/2013 W3-Professorship for General Education with a focus on Media Education at the TU Darmstadt
4/2007 – 12/2012 W1-Professorship for Media and Lifelong Learning at the University of Potsdam
2007 – 2008 Third-party funded research project “Willingness to innovate under practical pressure” as part of the BLK pilot project “Self-directed and cooperative learning in initial vocational training (Skola) ‘
2006 – 2007 Lecturer at the University of Hamburg
2005 – 2006 Third-party funded research project ’Gender-sensitive promotion of media skills ‘
2005 PhD (Dr. phil.) at the University of Hamburg with the thesis ’Forschende Lernwerkstatt. Eine qualitative Untersuchung zu Lernwiderständen in der Weiterbildung. “
2002 – 2004 Third-party funded research project ‘Selbstgesteuertes Lernen und Soziale Milieus’ as part of the bmbf-funded joint project ”Service: Institutional advice on opening up to new learning cultures and advice on new forms of provision (Selber) “
1999 – 2000 Funded research project ‘Flexible learning concepts ’
1996 – 2007 Lecturer at the University of Hamburg
1995 – 1997 Funded research project ‘Youth and mobility ’
1995 – 1999 Scientific assistant at the University of Hamburg
1992 – 1993 Funded research project ‘Sexuality and gender role stereotypes in private television ’
1989 – 1995 Study of educational science, psychology and sociology with a degree in education at the University of Hamburg
  • German Educational Research Association (GERA)
  • Society for Media in Science (GMW)
  • European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
  • European Educational Research Association (EERA)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)

DGfE

  • Board Member of the Media Education Section from 2009-2016
  • Chair of the Media Education Section from 2012-2016

GMW

  • Board of the GMW from 2010-2013
  • Editorial Board from 2011-2013

EERA

  • Link Convenor of the Network “Open Learning: Media, Environments and Culture” from 2013-2019
  • Network's Representative on EERA Council Elect from 2018-2019
  • Network’s Representative on EERA Council from 2019-2023
  • Since 2023 Senior fellow of the Emerging Researcher’s Group
  • Expert Advisory Board Ethics and Technology of the Digital City Darmstadt (since 2018)
  • Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EULE project – Development of a web-based learning environment for continuing education, skills acquisition and professionalization of adult education teachers – of the German Institute for Adult Education (since 2017)
  • Fellow of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Research at TU Darmstadt (2017-2019, 2019-2021)
  • Teacher education research in the Rhine-Main University Network: Digitalization working group (2016-2017)
  • Media in Teacher Education Steering Group, Hesse, State Education Authority and Teachers' Academy (since 2013)