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Faculty of Human Sciences and Education

Department of Developmental Psychology, Education and Learning

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Arbeitsgruppe & Projekte von Frau Prof. Dr. S. Weinert
  3. Faculties
  4. Human Sciences and Education
  5. Academic Institutes
  6. Psychology
  7. Department of Developmental Psychology, Education and Learning
  8. Funded Research Projects and Current Grants

Funded Research Projects and Current Grants

EarlyMath: Mathematical Development and the Impact of Interaction Quality in early Childcare

How the different facets of early interaction quality in preschools affect the development of mathematical competences of children from the age of two is the main question of the EarlyMath project. Within the project, global and mathematical interactional behavior of preschool teacher is promoted through various interventions. In order to be able to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the interventions, their effects will be comparatively investigated. The project will be a collaborative project between the German Youth Institute (DJI) and the University of Bamberg.

Further information you can find here.

ELSIE - (Parent behavior, language, inhibitory control and socio-emotional development)

The project "ELSIE” addresses the interrelation between parental behavior and child development in early childhood. For this purpose, different developmental domains (e.g., facets of language, socio-emotional, and cognitive development) are assessed longitudinally in 3-year-old children and traced over time. Parental interaction behavior is assessed by means of video coding of a play situation as well as by means of parent questionnaires.

Special attention is given to the situation of deaf and hard of hearing children. Therefore, part of the sample consists of children with a permanent, bilateral hearing loss. In this way, we aim to investigate whether and to what extent parental behavior differs when raising a deaf or hard of hearing child. We further investigate how this relates to child characteristics and developmental differences.

The research is conducted in the context of the PhD project of K. Hermes and a preparatory project of S. Weinert & K. Hermes.

ViVAplus: Impact of early childcare arrangements and the home-learning environment on child development

(funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG))

The ViVAplus project aims conducting the developmental impacts of the quality of the home-learning environment (HLE) and the quantity and quality of early institutional and family childcare (ECEC), thereby considering various domain-general and domain-specific cognitive as well as socioemotional outcomes in later kindergarten age. It will draw on data from the NEPS infant cohort study and the ViVA-project with a focus on longitudinal analyses across early childhood up to Wave 6. The main aims of the ViVAplus project are: (1) to describe the actual care arrangements of the representative sample of children growing up under the changing conditions of early childhood and care in Germany (2) to generate various comprehensive indicators that set the stage for the analyses to be conducted in ViVAplus (3) to investigate the impact of HLE and ECEC on child development; and (4) to study the interactions between HLE, ECEC, and child characteristics.

Further information: www.uni-bamberg.de/entwicklungspsychologie/forschung/viva/

EarlyEd - Leibniz Competence Centre for Early Education

The Leibniz Competence Centre for Early Education was founded with the aim of exploring the developmental processes of children in the first eight years of life and the support they receive from family and institutional learning environments. For this purpose intervention studies are conceived and carried out with the expertise of various disciplines. Scientists from the following disciplines are represented

- educational psychology (IPN),

- developmental psychology (DIPF, JLU Gießen, OFU Bamberg),

- educational science (IPN, Goethe University),

- cognitive psychology (IWM),

- elementary education (FU Berlin, OFU Bamberg),

- the subject didactics mathematics and chemistry (IPN)

- and the Economics of Education (DIW).

The substudy „EarlyEd“, which is located at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, focuses especially on the early roots of competence development as well as connections between general cognitive abilities and domain-specific competence development (linguistic, mathematical competences) in early childhood.

Further information: http://www.lkfb.de/en/