W3 professorship for ‘Mathematics and its Didactics in Primary Education’

The future holder of this position is expected to contribute to the design and coordination of the teacher training programme for primary schools in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary manner and to have proven research expertise in several (at least three) of the following areas:

• Analysis of mathematical teaching and learning processes in primary schools (grades 1-6)
• Diagnosing mathematical learning levels in primary school children
• Promoting mathematical learning processes in primary school children in the context of heterogeneity and inclusion
• Difference-sensitive teaching research in mathematics education
• Development of learning environments that enable the handling of heterogeneity in primary school mathematics teaching.
• Embodied cognition in mathematics education

The successful candidate should be able to cover all subject-specific mathematics and mathematics education teaching in primary school teacher training programmes for grades 1 to 6, including supervision of practical school events.

Excellent, preferably internationally visible research activity in mathematics education teaching and learning research is expected; experience in successfully acquiring third-party funding is also expected. Active publication of research, particularly in peer-reviewed journals, is also desirable.

Prerequisites for appointment are a relevant university degree in mathematics and its didactics, an outstanding doctorate and a relevant habilitation or equivalent qualifications in mathematics education.

Furthermore, the ability to cooperate within the Institute of Education, with the institutes of mathematics, the Institute of Special Education and beyond, the Professional School of Education (PSE) and the Interdisciplinary Centre Humboldt-ProMINT-Kolleg is expected.

Applicants must meet the legal requirements for professorial appointments in accordance with § 100 of the “Berliner Hochschulgesetz,” and here in particular also those of § 100 (3) (three years of school experience or comparable practical experience).

HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Researchers from abroad are welcome to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with a migration background are specifically encouraged to apply.

Please send your application (including a publication list, a complete list of taught courses, information on both past and current research projects, and a 2-page synopsis of the research profile) until 30.06.2025, quoting the Job ID PR/005/25 to: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Becker, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or preferably in electronic form in one single pdf file to: berufungen.ksbf@hu-berlin.de. Since we will not return your documents, please submit copies in the application only.

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