KuBi-Meta: Aesthetic and Cultural Education in a Changing Society – A Meta-Project

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 and Essen, we are coordinating the BMBF research network “Cultural Education in Social Transformations” , funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In our part of the project, we apply text mining to research syntheses related to the focus of the research network. Building on a paradigm developed in a previous project and described in recent publications (Christ, Penthin & Kröner, 2019; Christ, Smolarczyk & Kröner, 2023), we classify the research questions addressed both in the projects of the research unit and in the international research community on cultural and aesthetic education. Here, we put a special emphasis on (a) academic discourses on arts education, (b) their reception in general educational research discourses, and (c) their implications for cultural education practitioners. To promote visibility and sustainability of the research unit, we also support the interaction between research and practice via communicative formats of exchange between stakeholders.

Project website: https://kubi-meta.de/