Schriften der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE)

Globalisation, digitalisation, climate change, migration movements and pandemics are reshaping not only our everyday lives, but also science. In the face of these profound social changes, boundaries and their overcoming are becoming increasingly central challenges, also for educational research fields. This volume brings together a wide range of contributions on the topic of dissolution of boundaries and focuses on the significance of dissolution and boundaries for education, upbringing and socialisation.

As one of the largest disciplines at German universities, educational science is constantly developing. With its data report, which is published every four years, the German Educational Research Association (GERA) informs the professional public, education and higher education policy-makers and the general public about the level of development achieved by the discipline. On this basis, the data report serves to identify discipline policy needs as well as higher education and educational policy needs for action.

Crises are not a new phenomenon for educational science. At present, however, crises such as climate change, the banking crisis, refugee movements, the coronavirus pandemic, the energy crisis and wars are bringing the disruptive, disparate and threatening to the fore. As such, crises and transformations also challenge educational discourse and pedagogical action. The 29th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science explored the associated questions from a variety of perspectives and with different focal points. This volume documents the central contributions to the congress and provides an insight into the latest discourses.