Projects: Cultural Education

Principal Investigators: Benjamin Jörissen, Michael Kerres,  Stephan Kröner, Lisa Birnbaum Staff: Jessica Fittkau, Robert Rohm, Franz Krämer, Anna Heinemann Period: 2024-2028 Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research As part of a joint meta-project with colleagues from Erlangen a...

  Principal Investigators: Tobias Chilla, Stephan Kröner, Lisa Birnbaum Staff: Jessica Fittkau, Carola Sommer Period: 2023-2026 Funding: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food Abstract: Vital cultural events in rural areas are an important factor in the quality of life. Cultural ac...

Principal Investigators: Stephan Kröner (TP 2) Staff: Alexander Christ, Marcus Penthin, Kathrin Smolarczyk, Lisa Birnbaum Period: 2017-2022 Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research In this project, we focus on summarizing and mapping international quantitative research on digital ...

How can practical music performance competencies and accompanying activity-related behavioral, normative, and control beliefs be diagnosed? How may beliefs and competencies be fostered by interventions featuring education in music? And how do the participants experience these interventions? Two sub-projects investigated these questions. In the sub-project at FAU, we focused on the development and implementation of a musical education intervention with the aim of fostering musical leisure activities. In field experiments, we implemented different versions to assess the impact of various design features on behavioral outcomes...

Today, a large number of children and adolescents show deficits in terms of motor-coordination competences. A possible reason is the lower extent of physical activities compared to former generations. Although elementary school age is probably pivotal for establishing habits related to physical activities, this has rarely been studied previously. Starting from the theory of planned behavior, suitable scales were developed and piloted. These scales have been applied in a large-scale longitudinal study on determinants and effects of physical activities in primary school children...