Prof. Dr. phil. Martin Goldfriedrich

Professional activities 

• Since 2022 W2 Professor of Special and Inclusive Education at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences; Faculty of Social Sciences 
• 2019-2022 Post-doc at the University of Erfurt, Department of Special and Social Education, professorship for inclusive education research with a focus on learning
• 2019 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute for Education and Culture on the topic:  "Zwischen Gesundheitserziehung und Gesundheitsbildung. A theory- and empirics-based explication of the further development of health education as a sub-discipline of education and health science(s)" (summa cum laude)
• 2019 Head of the Pedagogy editorial team, Cornelsen-Verlag
• 2016-2019 Research assistant at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg, Institute of Health, specialization: Educational Psychology in Health Professions
• 2016 Teacher (lateral entry) at elementary school 48 in Dresden, subjects: sport (grades 1-4); remedial German lessons (grade 1); school clubs in the areas of play, movement & health
• 2015-2016 Teacher (lateral entry) at the vocational school for business and social affairs in Erfurt: educator, social assistant, curative education nurse training; subjects: developmental and educational processes; movement and health; basics of educational and social sciences, cultural and artistic projects, sport, educational theory, specialist practical lessons, curative education nursing basics and offers in the field of physical and mental health
• 2013-2015 Research assistant at the University of Erfurt, Faculty of Education, Chair of General Educational Science and Empirical Educational Research
• 2013-2014 Teacher at the Urbich mainstream school (lateral entry), planning and implementation of inclusive PE lessons in grades 5-10
• 2012-2013 Project assistant in the DFG project "Central terms of school pedagogy in pedagogical reference works" at the University of Erfurt, Faculty of Education, Chair of School and Primary School Pedagogy

Degree course

• 2010-2012 Master's degree at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, degree program: Education, Cultural Studies and Anthropology
• 2007-2010 Bachelor's degree at the University of Erfurt, degree course: Educational Science and Sports and Movement Pedagogy

Project "Inclusive pedagogical qualification in teacher training"

The university training of teachers in Germany continues to face major challenges in the area of inclusion pedagogical qualification (IpQ). Against this background, the research project uses a deductive document analysis (Kuckartz, 2016) to investigate the main research question of what differences exist with regard to the allocation of inclusive education learning outcomes (LO) within module handbooks (MHB) of primary school teacher training courses when the competence profile of the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (EADSNE, 2012) is taken as a basis. The MHB of 76 study programs at 46 university locations (HS) in all federal states were examined. The results, which provide indications for curriculum development, show, among other things There are major differences, in some cases deficits, in the location of LO to IpQ between the federal states, the HEIs and degrees.

The follow-up studies will also look at curricula from countries that have made further progress in the area of inclusive education qualifications. Another aim is to conduct surveys of teacher training experts, special and general education teachers and students.

"Health didactics" project

The interdisciplinary and international health didactics network, which is currently made up of 33 experts at 24 university locations and 22 different subject areas, has set itself the task of establishing health didactics as a sub-discipline that deals with the theory and practice of health teaching and the resulting special features of teaching and learning on the basis of general and subject area didactics and health education.

A concept paper for a model degree course in "Health Education" is currently being drafted, which can be used in the future as an implementation orientation at various university locations, based among other things on "Gesundheitsdidaktik" published by Beltz Verlag (Goldfriedrich & Hurrelmann, 2021). The course is based on a broad and multidimensional understanding of health and is positioned across the existing school (all types of schools) and extracurricular courses in the field of education and health science. In cross-university cooperation with the existing subject didactics, in particular with the didactics of subject teaching, sports didactics, biology didactics, nursing didactics, etc., the focus will be on the location of modules on health didactics.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8479-8598

Journal article

• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2024): Inclusion orientation in curriculum development of elementary teacher education programs. A qualitative analysis of curricula. In: European Journal of Teacher Education. (submitted)
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2023): Inclusive pedagogical qualification in the university education of primary school teachers. A cross-sectional analysis of module handbooks at German universities. In: Journal of Education, 69(4). https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/zeitschriften/zeitschrift_fuer_paedagogik/artikel/50081-inklusionspaedagogische-qualifizierung-in-der-universitaeren-ausbildung-von-grundschullehrkraeften.html (peer reviewed)
• Goldfriedrich, Martin; Bilz, Ludwig & Fischer, Saskia, M. (2020): Inclusive pedagogical competencies in the university education of primary school teachers: A qualitative content analysis of module handbooks of selected German study programs with an inclusive pedagogical profile. In: QfI - Qualification for Inclusion, 2(3). https://www.qfi-oz.de/index.php/inklusion/article/view/35/59 (peer reviewed)
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2019): Health education as a prerequisite for health literacy. A qualitative document analysis. Journal of Social Management, 17(2), 61-75.
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2018): Review of: Theobald Ulrich: Interdisciplinary competencies in physical education. Governance of learning content using the example of the 2016 educational plan reform in Baden-Württemberg. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. In: Educational Science Review (EWR). https://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978383093760.html

Monographs

• Goldfriedrich, M., Hoffmann, S., Müller Y., Schmid, A. C., Spallek, J., Stroß, A.M., & Tallarek, M. (2022). Concept paper for a model study program "Health Education and Health Didactics" (M. Goldfriedrich & K. Hurrelmann, Eds.). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.52342
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2020): Upbringing, education and health. Theoretical and empirical foundations of health education. Paderborn: Schöningh.
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2019): Between health education and health education. A theoretical and empirical explication of the further development of health education as a sub-discipline of education and health science(s). (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. Ralf Koerrenz, Prof. Dr. Ulf Sauerbrey. Result of the dissertation: FSU Jena - summa cum laude).
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2014): Holistic religious education with Salzmann and GutsMuths. Writings on physicality and physical education. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

Edited volumes

• Goldfriedrich, Martin & Klaus Hurrelmann (ed.) (2021): Health didactics. Weinheim: Beltz.

Essays in edited volumes

• Goldfriedrich, Martin; Hauke, Leandra & Meyer, Hilbert (2024): Guidebook literature for student teachers and teachers. Between scientific and practical orientation. In: Ulf Sauerbrey, Steffen Großkopf & Nicole Vidal (eds.): Empirische Ratgeberforschung. Research approaches and findings on the production, supply and use of advisory media. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. (peer reviewed)
• Goldfriedrich, M. (2024): Education and culture. Perspectives on inclusion pedagogy. In. Ralf Koerrenz (ed.): Education and culture. Present and future of a German interpretation pattern. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa (ed.)
• Goldfriedrich, Martin & Meyer, Hilbert (2021): General didactics and inclusive health education. In: Martin Goldfriedrich & Klaus Hurrelmann (ed.) Gesundheitsdidaktik. Weinheim: Beltz.
• Goldfriedrich, Martin & Schmid, C. Andrea (2021): Health-promoting inclusion: Inclusive pedagogical foundations for health didactics. In: Martin Goldfriedrich & Klaus Hurrelmann (ed.) Gesundheitsdidaktik. Weinheim: Beltz
• Goldfriedrich, Martin & Hurrelmann Klaus (2021): The state of development of health education and health didactics. In: Martin Goldfriedrich & Klaus Hurrelmann, (ed.): Gesundheitsdidaktik. Weinheim: Beltz. https://www.beltz.de/fileadmin/beltz/leseproben/978-3-7799-6371-4.pdf
• Group of authors East China Normal University Shanghai: Cui Ximeng (崔希孟), Chen Yumeng (陈雨萌), Su Jiao (苏娇) & Martin Goldfriedrich (2021): Health education in Chinese primary and secondary schools (在中国中小学开展健康教育). In: Martin Goldfriedrich & Klaus Hurrelmann (ed.): Gesundheitsdidaktik. Weinheim: Beltz.
• Bilz, Ludwig; Goldfriedrich, Martin; John, Nancy; Fischer, Saskia, et al. (2018): Bullying experiences of pupils with and without special educational needs at inclusive schools. In: Rathmann, Katharina & Hurrelmann, Klaus (ed.): Performance and well-being at school: The challenge of inclusion. Weinheim: Beltz, pp. 271-285.
• Goldfriedrich, Martin (2015): Body-mind communication - sport and health in the educational year. In: Koerrenz, Ralf (ed.): Global education on a journey. The educational year at the Herman-Lietz-Schule Schloss Bieberstein (Series: Culture and Education). Paderborn: Schöningh.