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Elective Module 1: Social and Inclusive Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the history and theory of social inequality; they are able to argue in
a theory-based manner how exclusion and inclusion processes develop. They assess how self-determination, participation and inclusion are made possible.
Elective Module 1.1: Advanced Course: Social and Inclusive Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 1
Learning Outcome: Students explain the causes of social change and its consequences for childhood, parenthood and
family. They apply their theoretical knowledge from gender, disability, migration and working-class studies in research as well as in educational practice.
Elective Module 1.2: Methods: Social and Inclusive Education(10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 1
Learning Outcome: Students explain theories and methodologies of qualitative social research. Furthermore, they
develop questions in connection with childhood, inclusion and social inequality. They apply
methods of survey and evaluation, report the results and draw professional conclusions.
Elective Module 2: Body Relations in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to explain the historicity of body and experience and to deduct and assess the
relevant parameters of changing body images and practices. They acquire critical-reflective
knowledge for evaluating the use of current body policies in the contexts of education. The
contribution of human sciences (medicine, psychiatry, special/curative/home education) and their
institutions to the normality pressure is historically determined and estimated for the present
Elective Module 2.1: Advanced Course: Body Relations in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 2
Learning Outcome: Students explain normative concepts of male and female bodies and compare them against the
background of social difference and inequality. They assess the relevance of the embodiment of
sex in subject formation processes. They determine historic-specific body relations in the field
of love and longing from a gender-theoretical perspective and apply their knowledge within the
scope of pedagogical contexts in a gender and diversity-sensitive way.
Elective Module 2.2: Methods: Body Relations in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 2
Learning Outcome: The students apply selected methodologies and methods, which have shown to be suitable for
researching body relations and practices in the field of education. They are able to evaluate
research approaches and results. They develop research designs for own questions and plan a
research project, which prepares them for their Master¿s Thesis.
Elective Module 3: Unconscious Processes in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to apply psychoanalytic theories, practices and methods on questions in
educational sciences. They know and reflect on the influence of unconscious determinants on
education and culture. Moreover, they develop forms of action and intervention targeted towards
problem solution.
Elective Module 3.1: Advanced Course: Unconscious Processes in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 3
Learning Outcome: The students apply psychoanalytic theories on human development and are able to recognise,
assess and explain modern and post-modern disorders. Against the background of this
knowledge, they are able to develop and use pedagogically professional forms of action.
Moreover, the students are able to relate theory to practice, to critically reflect on this and to
deduce research questions.
Elective Module 3.2: Methods: Unconscious Processes in Education and Culture (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 3
Learning Outcome: Students have an advanced knowledge in the field of psychoanalytic research and are able to
assess theoretical and empirical psychoanalytic studies and their possibilities and limitations.
They are able to plan and implement psychoanalytic research projects with the help of suitable
research designs and methods independently. Students are able to apply psychoanalytic
methodology on phenomena in education and culture.
Elective Module 4: Migration and Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The students apply the acquired differentiated specialised knowledge about migration and
education and compare historical and current normative claims of migration education. They
develop a critical-reflexive knowledge of migration relations in the globalised world and acquire
the competence to assess conditions, forms and consequences of subjectification processes in the
(post)migration society and to apply them to educational contexts.
Elective Module 4.1: Advanced Course: Migration and Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 4
Learning Outcome: Students know the history and interpret different manifestations of racism. They compare
migration-pedagogical terms and approaches and evaluate their claims of validity. Students
present guidelines of racism-critical approaches and are able to take up a critical-reflective
position. Moreover, they analyse normative and ethical key concepts and use them for their
pedagogical acting.
Elective Module 4.2: Methods: Migration and Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 4
Learning Outcome: Students deal with concepts and methods of research in migration, diversity and difference and
are able to locate research results. Inquisitive learning enables the students to get a critical-reflective attitude towards their knowledge and practice and to evaluate difference and power
relations. Migration-related issues are assessed in terms of their significance for everyday life
and applied within the framework of empirical research projects.
Elective Module 5: Intergenerational Relations and Learning in the Life Course (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The students deal with the theoretical concepts and empirical findings on the relations of
generations and education as well as the individual and society from a life-span perspective. They
develop an awareness for the historic, institutional and social conditionality of individual
education curricula. They can identify specific processes in learning contexts such as family,
nursery, kindergarten and school and reflect on and assess the emergence of social inequality.
Elective Module 5.1: Advanced Course: Intergenerational Relations and Learning in the Life Course (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 5
Learning Outcome: Students are able to assess theoretical concepts and empirical findings on questions of
intergenerational continuity and generational change of knowledge, moral concepts and
behavioural patterns. They are able to deduce and scientifically substantiate the conditions and
mechanisms of continuity and change in intergenerational relations in families and society.
Moreover, they can identify learning and educational processes in adolescence and adulthood
and apply it in their professional, pedagogical actions for supporting competence development in
these life stages.
Elective Module 5.2: Methods: Intergenerational Relations and Learning in the Life Course (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 5
Learning Outcome: The students develop an advanced methodological understanding in the field of intergenerational,
life course and educational research and possess the required practical skills to plan, implement,
evaluate and document a small research project. They are able to identify different research
designs and methods and critically compare and assess regarding their advantages and limitations
them against the background of the quality criteria of empirical research.
Elective Module 6: Conflict, Trauma and Violence in Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Students are able to identify and compare theoretical approaches to conflict, violence and trauma.
They are able to apply central terms and concepts scientifically and to reflect on their relevance.
Elective Module 6.1: Advanced Course: Conflict, Trauma and Violence in Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 6
Learning Outcome: Students deal with theories on conflict, trauma and violence. They apply their acquired
knowledge in actual pedagogical contexts in highly charged social areas.
Elective Module 6.2: Methods: Conflict, Trauma and Violence in Education (10 ECTS-Credits, 4h)
Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of Elective Module 6
Learning Outcome: The students are able to compare and explain reference theories and paradigms in the field of
conflict, trauma and violence research. They are able to independently generate and work on
research questions and to apply respective research methods in an appropriate way.
COURSES
For Individual Specialisation modules corresponding to a maximum of 20 ECTS-Credits can be
freely chosen from the Master¿s Programmes offered at the University of Innsbruck acc. to § 54,
par. 1 of the Universities Act or from a Minor (Supplementary Subject Area) for master
programmes. Recommend is for example the passing of modules from the School Teacher
Training Master¿s Programme (Secondary Schools), Specialisation: Media Education or the
interfaculty Master¿s Programme ¿Gender, Culture and Social Change¿. Minors are fixed
modules from other disciplines covering a total of 30 ECTS-Credits. They are announced in the
University of Innsbruck bulletin.
Elective Module 7: Individual Choice of Specialisation (20 ECTS-Credits)
Notes:
- There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
- The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).