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Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology
scientific employee

Tessa-Marie Menzel, M. A.

Main focus in research and teaching

  • Family research
  • Social media in the context of family and gender
  • Counseling and interviewing
  • Didactics of social pedagogy
  • Heterogeneity, inclusion and individual support

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Since 2019 PhD in Educational Science at the Technical University of Dortmund More information: here.

Since 2018 Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Pedagogy, Adult Education and Early Childhood Education (ISEP), Technical University.

2015-2018 Student assistant at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Osnabrück, Department of Socialization.

2015-2018 Master's degree in Educational Science (Master of Arts) at the University of Osnabrück with a focus on education in social heterogeneity

2012-2015 Bachelor studies of Educational Science and Philosophy (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Osnabrück.

Since 2022 Career certificate program "Academia & Research", Graduate Center of the Technische Universität Dortmund

2019 - 2022 Continuing education "Professional Teaching Competence for Higher Education", Netzwerk Hochschuldidaktik NRW, Technical University of Dortmund

2018 - 2019 Continuing education "Systemic Counseling", Arbeitskreis soziale Bildung und Beratung e.V., Münster, Germany

2013 - 2015 Continuing education "Person-centered counseling", Gesellschaft für personenzentrierte Psychotherapie und Beratung e.V. (GwG), Münster

  • German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Section for Social Pedagogy and Early Childhood Education and Section for Women's and Gender Studies in Educational Science (associate member)
  • European Society on Family Relations (ESFR)
  • Network Women's and Gender Studies NRW
  • Network Educational Family Research
  • "Leitbilder 'guter' Mutterschaft - Ein Dissertationsprojekt zur Darstellung von Mutterschaft in den sozialen Medien am Beispiel der Mumfluencerinnen", a contribution in the context of the 21st Netzwerktreffen Wissenssoziologischer Diskursanalyse, June 2021, online event.
  • "Kritische Reflexion mithilfe von Portfolios im Lehramtsstudium der beruflichen Fachrichtung Sozialpädagogik" [Critical reflection with the help of portfolios in teacher training in the professional field of social pedagogy], a forum contribution in the context of the annual conference of the DGfE Commission on Social Pedagogy, March 2021, University of Erfurt (online).
  • Equit, Claudia; Menzel, Tessa-Marie (im Erscheinen, vsl. 2022): Theorielose Empirie? Ideen zu einem theoretisch sensibilisierten Forschen mit der Grounded Theory. In: Ecarius, Jutta; Oliveras, Ronnie (Hrsg.): Qualitatives Forschen in der Erziehungswissenschaft. Prozesse und Vielfalt der rekonstruktiven Erkenntnisgewinnung. Barbara Budrich.
  • Heller, Patricia; Menzel, Tessa-Marie; Kassis, Wassilis (2018): Resilient trotz Ausgrenzung? Muslimische Studierende im Spannungsfeld zwischen Normalisierung und Visibility. In: Hafez, Farid (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch für Islamophobieforschung 2018. New academic press. S. 89-110.