Sandra Seeliger

Sandra Seeliger is senior lecturer at the department of education at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and she holds a Dr. phil. In her dissertation, she applied Lewin's field theory in the context of truancy and school dropout. In four case studies, she analysed conditional factors for the successful averting of an impending school dropout of students in high-risk situations.

She currently teaches at the Department of Education and focuses, among other things, on the challenges of digitalisation for education.

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CV - Dr. Sandra Seeliger

1973 - Born in Herford, Germany

1993 - A-levels in Bielefeld

1996 - Graduation as social insurance clerk in Leverkusen

2008 - Master's degree in education, sociology and law at Germany's State Distance-Learning University in Hagen

2007 - 2008 - Leisure time teacher at a school in Pulheim

2009 - 2012 - Research assistant and doctoral student at the University of Wuppertal at the Chair of General Didactics / Theory of Schools

2012 - 2020 - Research assistant in the project "study entrance phase" at the University of Wuppertal in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. Research assistant at the Chair of General Didactics / Theory of School and Chair of Social Pedagogy / Child and Youth Welfare

2015 - Graduation as Dr. phil. with the thesis "Schulabsentismus und Schuldropout - Fallanalysen zur Erfassung eines Phänomens" (School absenteeism and school dropout - case analyses to capture a phenomenon)

2018 - curr - (Initial) member of the research team “WATS up” what about teacher shortage

2021 - curr - Senior lecturer at the University of Wuppertal, Department of Education