Dr. Ewa Bacia
What she does at FiBS
Dr. Ewa Bacia has been working with us as a senior researcher and project manager since August 2022. Her focus is on democracy education, civic education and the analysis of the acquisition of social and political competencies among young people and adults in the context of global societal processes, but also taking into account local influencing factors.
Selected projects
Democracy and school - the view of school administrators and young people
Evaluation of the educational theatre programme gut:gehen of the Walter Blüchert Foundation
Study on the framework conditions for successful implementation and use of ITS in the school system Digitally supported teaching by ITS
Selected publications
All publications
Career
How she got started
Dr Bacia is a social and political scientist. She obtained both degrees at the University of Warsaw. In 2008 she wrote a dissertation on the topic of "The Understanding of Democracy in Post-Socialist Regions of Europe. Comparison of Social Capital in Brandenburg and Podlasie" at the Free University of Berlin.
Her previous stations
After her doctorate, she was involved in several research projects in the field of education. She worked in Poland and in Germany, with European cooperation partners, in an inter- and transdisciplinary way. Her last station was research and teaching at the Technical University in Berlin, where she habilitated in the field of educational science in 2018. The topic of her cumulative habilitation thesis was "Democratic Approaches in School and Out-of-School Educational Processes. Results of empirical studies in an international educational context". She works primarily with qualitative research methods.