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Prof. Dr. Michaela Gläser-Zikuda

Chair of School Education focusing on Instructional Research

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Prof. Dr. Michaela Gläser-Zikuda has held the Chair of School Pedagogy, with a focus on empirical classroom research, at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since April 2014.

Michaela Gläser-Zikuda studied educational science, educational psychology, chemistry, and German as a teaching subject at the University of Stuttgart and at the universities of education in Ludwigsburg and Schwäbisch Gmünd. After earning her diploma in educational science and passing her second state examination, she completed her doctorate in 2000 under Prof. Dr. Philipp Mayring at the Ludwigsburg University of Education on the topic “Emotions and Learning Strategies in School.”

After completing research fellowships abroad, she earned her habilitation in school pedagogy and instructional research in 2007. In 2008, she accepted a position as professor of school pedagogy and didactics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, before accepting a position as professor of school pedagogy at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2014.

Michaela Gläser-Zikuda leads numerous externally funded research projects and has published extensively on teaching, teacher education, and higher education research. Her research focuses in particular on self-regulated learning and emotions in educational contexts, reflective learning tools, the development of innovative teaching and learning environments, and the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

She serves as a reviewer for national and international academic journals and funding agencies, and is a co-founder of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) and an EARLI Special Interest Group on “Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Learning and Instruction.” She also serves on several academic advisory boards. In 2018, she was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

At FAU, she is co-director of the Center for School Development and Evaluation and a member of the collegial leadership team of the Interdisciplinary Center for Empirical Teaching and Learning Research. From 2016 to 2019, she served as associate dean for teacher education; since 2021, she has been associate dean for research, early-career faculty, and public relations at the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Theology at FAU.

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