Land appoints Prof. Dr. Havva Engin on the Scientific Advisory Board

The country has Prof. Dr. Havva Engin appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Ministry of Education. As an expert in language support, intercultural education and educational integration, she is the right addition to the advisory board.

since 2017 the Scientific Advisory Board The Ministry of Education with its expertise in educational issues. The central task of the scientific advisory board is the transfer of his expertise into the Quality development of the Baden-Württemberg Schulwesens Work of the Institute for Educational Analysis (IBBW) and the Center for school quality and teacher training (ZSL) scientifically. Minister of Education is a member of this scientific advisory board, which currently consists of four members Theresa Schopper with Prof. Dr. Havva Engin des Educational University Heidelberg appoint. Prof. Engin will enrich the expert committee with its knowledge from her research in the field of intercultural education.

"Professor Engin is an expert in language development, intercultural and interreligious education and education integration. It is therefore just the right addition to our advisory board, which has always provided us with valuable expertise," says Minister of Education Theresa Schopper. She explains: "One of my core concerns is that every student has the best chances and he or she can use them independently of her origin and I am sure that we have found the right person with Ms. Engin who supports us with your knowledge from your research to achieve this goal."

The scientific advisory board has an important advisory function

The Scientific Advisory Board currently includes four scientists from Baden-Württemberg. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Trautwein (professorship for empirical educational research at the University of Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Anne Sliwka (professor of educational science at the University of Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. Stephen Schuman (professorship for business education at the University of Konstanz) and Prof. Dr. Timo Leuders (professor of mathematics and their didactics at the Freiburg University of Education)). With Prof. Dr. Havva Engin has now been a professor of general pedagogy with a focus on intercultural education at the Heidelberg University of Education.

The scientific advisory board usually meets once a month in close exchange and trusting cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, the ZSL and the IBBW. An important function of the advisory board is to advise the IBBW and the ZSL as well as the Ministry of Culture. In addition, a close interlinking of the institutions with leading scientific institutions is to be promoted. The members of the advisory board are selected from the point of view of a broad and balanced thematic expertise- from empirical educational research to the topics of school and teaching development and teacher education to economic and vocational training. In addition, the selection extends to both the general education and the vocational school system - i.e. across all types of school.

Prof. Dr. Havva Engin

Prof. Dr. Havva Engin has been a professor of general pedagogy with a focus on intercultural education at the Heidelberg University of Education.

She studied high school teaching at the Technical University of Berlin, where she also did her doctorate. Then she researched and taught at the Karlsruhe University of Education and at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on "development of educational institutions in migration -shaped societies", "intercultural and interreligious education: religious radicalization of Muslim youth" and "language acquisition in the context of migration -related multilingualism". Havva Engin was a member of the Berlin State Advisory Board for Integration and Migration Questions from State Advisory Board for Integration Baden-Württemberg from Partial and integration advisory board of the state of North Rhine-Westfalen as well as Expert Commission of the Federal Government on the framework of integration ability .

Ministry of Kultus, Youth and Sport: Quality concept for the education system in Baden-Württemberg