Dipl.-Päd. Kathrin Henrich

Kathrin Henrich studied educational science with a focus on adult education and out-of-school youth education in Frankfurt. Since 2013, she has led the Frankfurt Academic Key Competency Training operationally at the Goethe University, was responsible for program design and was active as a trainer and consultant. Based on this experience, she has her PhD project titled “Studying as a biographical transition. A qualitative study on the perspectives of students” developed.

Research Project
Studying as a biographical transition. A qualitative study on the perspectives of students

The initial thesis of her research project “Studying as a biographical transition. A qualitative study on the perspectives of students” is that a degree does not only mean the entrance into a new educational institution, but involves many changes: Excerpts from the home, responsibility for one’s own household, changes in the school-related circle of friends, building neThe initial thesis of her research project “Studying as a biographical transition. A qualitative study on the perspectives of students” is that a degree does not only mean the entrance into a new educational institution, but involves many changes: Excerpts from the home, responsibility for one’s own household, changes in the school-related circle of friends, building new social contacts etc. Thus, this transition means the formation of a new phase of life, in which numerous ideas of normality and discourses are stored, which thus determine the experience and the design of this phase of life. The present research project addresses the empirical questions with which challenges they confront the young adults, which resources they use and how the young adults shape this transition.

Presentations

• Henrich, Kathrin (2017): Experience university. Poster presentation at the conference Transition in the Life Course. What do we know and what does it mean? International Conference of the DFG Research Training Group Doing Transitions, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Courses

• “My studies and me- me and my studies. Reflect on study experiences, project management tools and a motto goal” – Course in WiSe 18/19 at the Department of Educational Sciences of the Goethe University in the module Key Competences

Memberships

• Adult Education Section, German Society for Educational Science (DGfE)
• Section for Biography Research, German Sociological Association (DGS)