Research and Teaching Focus

• Theory of Difference in Educational Science 
• Educational Ethnography
• Childhoods Between Normalization and Disability 
• Theory and Empirics of (De)Institutionalization
• Daycare Center as a Pedagogical Institution 

International Publications 

Publications prior to 2012 can be found here 

Monographs and Edited Volumes 

Wulf, Christoph/Althans, Birgit/Audehm, Kathrin/Bausch, Constanze/Göhlich, Michael/Sting, Stephan/Tervooren, Anja/Wagner-Willi, Monika/Zirfas, Jörg (2010): Ritual and identity. The staging and performing of rituals in the lives of young people. Ethnography and education. London: The Tufnell Press.

Wulf, Christoph/Althans, Birgit/Audehm, Kathrin/Bausch, Constanze/Göhlich, Michael/Sting, Stephan/Tervooren, Anja/Wagner-Willi, Monika/Zirfas, Jörg (eds.) (2004): Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels. Ethnographie et genèse de communautés. Paris, Budapest, Torino: L'Harmattan.

Special Issues in Academic Journals 

Kessl, Fabian/Machold, Claudia/Tervooren, Anja/Pfaff, Nicolle/Richter, Martina (2022): (De)Institutionalisation of Education and Social Care. Social Work & Society, Jg. 20, Heft 1, ISSN 1613-8953. URL: https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/issue/view/41

Book and Journal Articles 

Tervooren, Anja/Pfaff, Nicolle (2024): Children, Belonging and the New. Methodological Perspectives on the Relationship Between Construction and Reconstruction. In: Budde, Jürgen/Wischmann, Anke/ Rißler, Georg/Meier-Sternberg, Michael (eds.): Novelty, Innovation and Transformation in Educational Ethnographic Research. European Perspectives. London: Routledge, p. 193-209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032629384

Tervooren, Anja (2023): The Social Category of 'Disability' as a Desideratum of Intersectional Childhood Studies. In: Seitz, Simone/Auer, Petra/Bellacicco, Rosa (eds.): International perspectives on inclusion – in the light of educational justice. Opladen, New York: Budrich, p. 31-46.

Tervooren, Anja (2022): Gender as Embodiment in Childhood. In: Kraus, Anja/Wulf, Christoph (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. P. 245-257.

Gottuck, Susanne/Pfaff, Nicolle/ Tervooren, Anja (2021): Questioning Cultural and Power Relations and Debates on Disability and Migration. Conceptual Ideas for Contemporary Inclusive Teacher Education. In: Heidrich, Lydia/Mecheril, Paul/Karakaşoğlu, Yasemin/Shure, Saphira (eds.): Regimes of Belonging, Schools and Migrations. Teaching in (Trans)National Constellations. Springer VS, p. 387-404.

Tervooren, Anja (2004): Les jeux récréatifs de la culture enfantine performative. In: Wulf, Christoph/Althans, Birgit/Audehm, Kathrin/Bausch, Constanze/Göhlich, Michael/Sting, Stephan/Tervooren, Anja/Wagner-Willi, Monika/Zirfas, Jörg (eds.): Penser les pratiques sociales comme rituels. Ethnographie et genèse de communautés. Paris, Budapest, Torino: L'Harmattan, p. 245-295.

Tervooren, Anja (2003): Children Dealing with Racist Name Calling: Play and Performance as Politics? In: Qvarsell, Brigitta/Wulf, Christoph (eds.): Culture and Education. Münster: Waxmann, S. 194-203.

Series Editorship 

Waldschmidt, Anne/Berressem, Hanjo/Ingwersen, Moritz/ (2017): Culture – Theory – Disability. Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Disability Studies. Körper – Macht – Differenz, Band 10. Bielfelf: transcript.

Söderfeldt, Ylva (2012): From pathology to public sphere. The German deaf movement 1848–1914. [Von der Pathologie in die Öffentlichkeit. Die deutsche Gehörlosenbewegung 1848-1914]. Disability Studies. Körper – Macht – Differenz, Band 9. Bielefeld: transcript.

Academic Carreer

2022-2024

Chair of the German Educational Research Association (DGfE)

6/2021-5/2023

Chair of the Executive Board, Interdisciplinary Center for Educational Research (IZfB), University of Duisburg-Essen

11/2016-05/2021

Deputy Spokesperson on the Executive Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Educational Research (IZfB), University of Duisburg-Essen

3/2015-3/2017

Spokesperson of the Section for General Education of the German Educational Research Association (DGfE); member of the section's speakers' committee since 2013

11/2012-2014

Member of the Founding Council of the Method Center for Qualitative Educational Research (MzQB) at the University of Duisburg-Essen; since 2016 part of the Interdisciplinary Center for Educationl Research (IZfB)

10/2012-10/2016

Chair of the Commission "Qualitative Educational and Biographical Research" within the DGfE Section "General Educational Science"; Deputy CHair since 2012

16 April 2012

Appointment as Full Professor (W3) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, "Educational Science with a Special Focus on Childhood Studies"

12 July 2010

Successful evaluation as Junior Professor ("meeting the highest academic standards")

24 June 2009

Berenberg Award for Academic Language, awarded by the University Society Hamburg

10/2007

Appointment as Junior Professor of "Educational Science with a Special Focus on the Relationship between Education and Culture" at the University of Hamburg, Department of General, Intercultural and International Comparative Education 

2/2006-10/2009

Member of the DFD-funded project "Children's Bodies in Practice: An Ethnography of the Processing of Development Norms in Paediatric Check-ups and School Entry Examinations" directed by Prod. Dr. Helga Kelle; subsequent collaboration 

4/2005-10/2007

Research Associate at the Institute of Early Childhood and Primary Education, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, with a focus on "In-school and Out-of-school Educational Processes of Children"; Associate Memeber of the Collaborative Research Centre "Cultures of Performanmce", subproject "Learning with the Body: Out-of-school Educational Processes of Adolescents in Immigrants Society" 

2/2005

Doctoral dissertation defence: Bodies, Gender, and Desire: Moving in Childhoods in School (summa cum laude)

01-04/2005

Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Education, Freie Universität Berlin; participation in the research project "The Production of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualizations" within the Collaborative Research Centre "Cultures of Performance," directed by Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf, subproject "Learning with the Body: Out-of-school Educational Processes of Adolescents in Immigrants Society", subsequently Associate Member until 2007 

2002-2004

Research Associate in the Collaborative Research Centre "Cultures of Performance," subproject "The Production of Learning Cultures through Rituals and Ritualizations: Mimesis, Practical Knowledge, and Social Action," directed by Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf; subproject "Hybrid Cultures: Youth and Religion"

1999-2001

Research Associate in the Collaborative Research Centre "Cultures of Performance," subproject "The Production of the Social Rituals and Ritualizations" subproject "Rituals in Childhood and Youth"

11-12/1999

DAAD Research Scholarship at Northern Michigan University (USA) on "Disability Studies"