Facilities

The Didactic Workshop brings key concepts in contemporary teacher training to life, based on constructivist learning theories. The aim is to encourage students and aspiring teachers to engage in active and self-directed learning in schools and at university. They receive support in taking on the professional role of a teacher and in applying what they have learnt in their studies to classroom teaching. At the same time, it serves as a meeting place for communication and a workspace for students.

Our university library is an academic library specialising in pedagogy (educational science) and psychology. We also offer a wide selection of resources for various academic disciplines. In total, over 200,000 printed books, journals and other media (DVDs, audio CDs, CD-ROMs, games) are freely accessible and systematically arranged by subject area. In addition, approximately 40,000 e-books and over 20,000 licensed e-journals, as well as numerous databases, are available.

We advise and support students, prospective students, visiting academics and lecturers who are coming to our university from abroad or who wish to gain experience abroad. To this end, we maintain numerous links with our international partner universities.

The Karlsruhe School of Education (KSE) is an inter-university academic institution run in partnership with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). At the KSE, teacher training is strengthened and further developed in a profession-oriented manner through the integration of the strengths of both universities in subject-specific disciplines, subject-specific didactics and educational sciences, as well as through practical school placements.

The LLC is a multi-purpose service facility at the university. We offer language courses, with a varied programme of study open to all members of our university. It also serves as a seminar, project and training room. It hosts teaching seminars, tutorial sessions and project work, as well as regular training sessions on information retrieval and reference management run by the university library, and German language courses for exchange students coming to our university.

We are the central point of contact for students and prospective students throughout their time at university. We provide information materials and accept your applications, documents and supporting evidence for all departments at the university. We coordinate appointments for the Central Student Advisory Service and, for questions requiring specialist knowledge, we refer you to the appropriate specialist consultation.

The Centre for Information Technology and Media (ZIM) is a central department at our university which offers a wide range of IT services to support research, teaching and administration.

We advise our students on work placements – known as ‘school-based practical studies’ – which form an integral part of the teacher training programme. A long-standing, well-established and growing network of schools, institutions and teachers enables us to consistently meet our students’ needs for placement opportunities. Our remit also includes the training and supervision of training advisers at our partner schools.

The ZWW develops part-time study programmes based on our university’s areas of expertise. We also provide organisational and co-ordinative support for the university’s own continuing education programmes. In this capacity, we are on hand to advise all interested parties and students on any queries they may have, such as the recognition of prior learning, entry requirements, funding opportunities, fees, etc.