Tasks

Project coordination for the project "Global Citizenship and Environmental Stewardship: Driving Water Sustainability and Resilience Through Efficient Conservation and Utilization"

Research interests and areas of work

• Transformative geographic education for a socio-ecological transformation
• Global citizenship education, transformative learning, critical-emancipatory education, education for sustainable development, global learning
• More-than-human geographies, post-development, Anthropocene, planetary boundaries
• Digital excursions with XpertEye - innovative conceptual approaches at extracurricular learning locations with the involvement of student teachers
• International school cooperations

Academic career

• Since June 2025: Research assistant at the Department of Geography at the UoC in the project "Global Citizenship and Environmental Stewardship: Driving Water Sustainability and Resilience Through Efficient Conservation and Utilization" of the German Indian Network for Tomorrow (GIANT)
• April 2025 - June 2025: Research Assistant for the Academy "Teacher Education for a Future in Flux (TEFF)" of the Center for Teacher Education (ZfL) of the UoC
• October 2021 - March 2025: Research assistant in the didactics of geography at the Department of Geography at the UoC
• May 2021 - October 2025: Student assistant in the didactics of geography at the UoC's Department of Geography

Studies

• October 2024: Master's thesis with the title: „Erkundung von neuen Möglichkeiten, Rollen, Beziehungen und Handlungen in assisted-reality-basierten, partizipativen Schüler*innen-Exkursionen – Ein Konzept zum transformativen Globalen Lernen im Kontext der sozial-ökologischen Transformation“ (Supervision: Dr. Johanna Mäsgen, Dr. Veronika Selbach)
• October 2021 - March 2025: Master of Education Gym/Ge (subjects: Geography, Physics), University of Cologne
• August 2021: Bachelor thesis with the title: „Sportgroßveranstaltungen im Globalen Süden – Eine geographische Untersuchung der ökonomischen Effekte der FIFA Fußballweltmeisterschaften in Südafrika (2010) und Brasilien (2014)“ (Supervision: Dr. Veronika Selbach, Dr. Johanna Mäsgen)
• October 2018 - October 2021: Bachelor of Arts for teaching degree Gym/Ge (subjects: Geography, Physics), University of Cologne

Publications

• Selbach, V., Mäsgen, J., Schemann, F., Dannenberg, P., 2025. Perspektivität im Geographieunterricht. Transformatives forschendes Lernen mit Assisted Reality im Kontext der sozialökologischen Transformation. Geographische Rundschau 78 (1-2), 62-63.

Lectures/conference papers

• Transformative learning in practice, lecture at the Urban Laboratory: Changing Cities of the Teacher Education for a Future in Flux(teff) Academy, Cologne, March 2025.

• Exploring new possibilities, roles, relationships and actions in assisted-reality-based, participatory student excursions in Germany and India - A concept for transformative global citizenship education in geography lessons in the context of socio-ecological transformation, presentation at the HGD-Nachwuchstagung, Augsburg, March 2025.

• Transformative learning through virtual (international) school collaborations - Bringing the world together with XpertEye, poster presentation at the Seasonal School "Transformative Learning in Sustainability: adopting a pluriversal approach", Karlsruhe, May 2024.