Kaiserslautern Professor Elected Chair of the DGfE's Media Education Section

Professor Dr. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs has been elected the new chair of the Media Education Section. The section brings together educators whose work focuses on media education issues in both research and teaching. Currently, over 400 scholars are members of the section, including colleagues from Austria and Switzerland.

The Media Education Section is part of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), an association of educational scientists active in research and teaching. It was founded in 1964 and currently has approximately 4,400 members. The purpose of the DGfE is to promote scholarship, research, education, and training in the field of educational science. Its wide-ranging work is carried out in 14 sections and 18 commissions and is reflected in publications, conferences, and every two years at the joint congress, which took place under the title “Crises and Transformations” from March 10 to 13, 2024, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

The members of the Media Pedagogy Section focus their teaching and research primarily on issues of media literacy and media education, media socialization, and media didactics (teaching and learning with media). Their empirical, methodological, and theoretical approaches address not only issues from all areas of educational sciences, communication studies, and media studies, but also—and in particular—problems and topics that lie at the intersection of these fields and arise from current media developments, such as artificial intelligence or the datafication of education.

Professor Dr. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs conducts research at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) in the Department of Education, with a focus on school pedagogy.