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Work, Inclusion and Technology
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
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Senior teacher in higher education

Dr. Claudia Gottwald

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Professional career

  • Since 2023: Senior teacher in higher education in the subject area "Work, Inclusion and Technology".
  • 2022-2023: Senior university teacher at the Chair of "Development and Research of Inclusive Educational Processes"
  • Summer semester 2018: Substitute for the professorship "Disability and Inclusion" at the University of Kassel (Institute of Social Sciences)
  • 2017 (February/March): Training as an ethics consultant in healthcare (Center for Applied Ethics)
  • since 2016: Assistant lecturer at the Chair of "Development and Research of Inclusive Educational Processes"
  • since 2011: Assistant lecturer at the Chair of "Theory of Rehabilitation and Pedagogy of Disability"
  • 2003-2011: Research assistant at the Chair of "Theory of Rehabilitation and Pedagogy of Disability" (2008 completion of doctorate on the topic: "Laughing at the Other - a historical analysis of comic representations of disability")
  • 2004-2007: Teaching assignments at the University of Cologne (Seminar for Pedagogy and Rehabilitation in Mental Disability)
  • 2003-2004: EZU representative at the Hugo-Kükelhaus-Schule Leverkusen (school with a focus on intellectual development)
  • 2001-2003: Trainee teacher at the Hiddinghausen school (school with a focus on intellectual development) / Dortmund teacher training college
  • 2001: Teaching assignment at the University of Cologne (Seminar for General Curative Education)
  • 2000-2001: Collaboration on a project commissioned by the state of NRW for the introduction of the euro (training and materials for people with learning difficulties)
  • 1995-2000: Studied special education at the University of Cologne, specializing in: Pedagogy and rehabilitation of the mentally and speech impaired, subject: German (1997: semester abroad and school internship in Liverpool)
  • 1993-1994: Pre-internship in a curative education boarding school (Bathildisheim e.V. Arolsen)

Working groups/tasks

  • since 2016: Member of the DGfE working group "Theory formation in special education"
  • since 2011: Member of the course commission for the Master's in Rehabilitation Sciences
  • since 2011: Member of the study program committee for the Bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation Education
  • 2011, 2015/16 and 2023/24: Member of the Reaccreditation Commission for the Bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation Education
  • Module coordinator for various modules
  • Since 2008: Student advisor (extracurricular)
  • 2008-2011: Member of the examination board of Faculty 13 (deputy)
  • 2007-2009: Representative for the faculty council
  • 2006-2008: Research working group "Ethics as an area of protection" (Prof. Dr. Martin Schnell: Witten/Herdecke University / Prof. Dr. Markus Dederich: TU Dortmund University)
  • 2005-2011: Disability Studies research colloquium (Prof. Dr. Waldschmidt: University of Cologne)
  • 2004-2014: Inclusion education working group of Faculties 12 and 13
  • since 2003: Equal Opportunities Working Group of Faculty 13

Research projects

  • 2014-2016 "The UN CRPD and its significance for municipal urban development" (project management), funded by the city of Castrop-Rauxel (1.10.2014-30.9.2016); project management: Jan-Frederik Wittchen
  • 2003-2008 Research on laughter about disability from a historical perspective (dissertation)
  • Ethical and professional ethical problems and issues
  • Cultural and historical perspectives on disability

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