Transfer
The project addresses various dimensions of transfer. Firstly, the transfer of our own research results to educational practice. Secondly, transfer in the sense of adapting a successful model from the US school system to the German educational sphere.
It is based on the results of earlier studies into language education in the context of multilingualism, including a feasibility study on the applicability of the SFA approach to Germany.
What we are aiming at, then, is the type of transfer-oriented research pursued by the German Research Foundation. It allows academics to advance their research results in collaboration with partners from outside of academia in an application-oriented program and make them usable for evidence-based educational practice.
For this reason, we seek to establish a close, practically orientated collaboration between Universität Hamburg, school authorities, and individuals from educational practice and national and international nonprofit organizations (Success for All Foundation, Tutoring for All, Teach First Deutschland) in our project. We aim to pool the academic, educational and technological expertise of all involved parties. On this basis, we will launch the innovative, evidence-based project outlined above and explore the possibility of developing a scalable model for German schools.
Considering the high research capacity of Universität Hamburg on issues of education in the context of linguistic, cultural, and social diversity, this project has a particularly high potential of further increasing the visibility of the University as a center of academic transfer in the field of education.