If you are interested in supervising your final thesis (Bachelor or Master), you should have attended a course of one of our Lecturers in order to develop a topic and a research question. The topic of the thesis should be discussed early on and presented by a short synopsis during visiting hours.

Rita Nikolai supervises 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)

Yusuf Özdemir supervises thesis projects (Bachelor) on the following topics:

• Comparative education system in international and historical comparison
• Concepts and working methods (OECD, UNESCO, foundations & Co as educational policy actors in early childhood education)
• Intercultural pedagogy - current challenges
• Qualitative research method