Prof. Dr. Stephan Kröner

Tel.: +49 911 5302-95167

Room U1.0281

Regensburger Str. 160, 90478 Nürnberg

Consultations by appointment

Stephan Kröner received his MA (Diplom) in Psychology from Justus-Liebig-University (Gießen, Germany), his Ph.D. in Psychology from Erfurt University (PH Erfurt, Germany) and his venia legendi for a habilitation thesis submitted at FAU University.

Current Third-Party Funded Projects

BMBFSFJ-funded (Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) collaborative project FAMINT for Co-Creatively Developing Family-Oriented STEM Programs
Collaborative project as part of the program “Integration through Education” funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus: MetaIntBil: Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education, 2024-2027
BMBFSFJ-funded (Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) collaborative project: KuBi-Meta: Arts and Cultural Education in Societal Transformations – A Meta-Project
BMEL-funded (Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) project Krux – Culture at Regional Level Between Endogenous and Exogenous Factors, 2023-2026

Completed Third-Party Funded Projects

- BMBFSFJ-funded (Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) collaborative project EnvironMINT – Gelingensbedingungen für eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit von Kindern, Eltern, Schulen und FabLabs für nachhaltige MINT-bezogene Maker-Aktivitäten
- DFG-funded (German Research Foundation) project RebeL – Religious and Professional Beliefs of Teachers
- BMEL-funded (Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) project HeiDi – Heimat Digital: Potentials and Strategies of Digital Regional Development in Rural Areas
- ESF-funded (European Social Fund) project IdEE – Integration by Empowerment of Parents – A Design-Based Research Project
- BMBF-funded (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) project DiKuBi – Digitalization in Aesthetic, Arts and Cultural Education – Quantitative-Empirical Research Syntheses
- BMBF-funded (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) collaborative project MEMU-IN – Condensed Joy? Multi-day Music-Educational Interventions: Determinants of Participation, Effective Design Features and Effects on Competencies and Personal Development
- Staedtler Foundation-funded (Staedtler-Stiftung) project LSM – Reading, Creative Writing and Painting as Leisure Activity of Primary School Children with and without a Migratory Background – an Interdisciplinary Project for the Interaction of Curricular and Extracurricular Surroundings

Selected Publications

Christ, A., Smolarczyk, K., & Kröner, S. (2024). Schwerpunktthemen der quantitativ-empirischen Forschung mit Bezug zur Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung: Eine kartierende Forschungssynthese [Hot topics of quantitative-empirical research related to digitalization in cultural education: a mapping review]. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-023-01210-7 (Open Access)
Sommer, C., Chilla, T., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2025). Digital social innovations in rural areas – process tracing and mapping critical junctures. Journal of Rural Studies. 114. 103510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103510 (open access)
Birnbaum, L. & Kröner, S. (2022). A review on antecedents and consequences of leisure reading and writing in children. SAGE Open, 12 (3). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F21582440221113823 (open access)
Christ, A., Penthin, M., & Kröner, S. (2021). Big data and digital aesthetic, arts and cultural education: Hot spots of current quantitative research. Social Science Computer Review. 39(5), 821-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319888455 (open access)
Smolarczyk, K., & Kröner, S. (2021): Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2021.1974987 (post-print)

Further information: complete list of publications