Birgit Engel
Kunstakademie Münster – Germany - Chair of Didactics of Art Education
Prof. Dr. Birgit Engel is teaching at the Chair of Didactics of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts Muenster/Germany since 2011. She taught and researched many years as a teacher in a comprehensive school and in the field of (inter)cultural education at the University of Bielefeld. In her book ‘Spürbare Bildung’ (Sensible Awareness in Pedagogical Processes) she has developed a participatory approach, working with images of remembering based on Gadamers philosophical and zur Lippes aesthetic hermeneutics. Her current research is motivated by the goal to make the artistic experience useful for qualitative research and transferable to (art)teaching to establish an attitude of awareness and sensitivity as a professional disposition.
Prof. Dr. Birgit Engel is teaching at the Chair of Didactics of Art Education, Academy of Fine Arts Muenster/Germany since 2011. She taught and researched many years as a teacher in a comprehensive school and in the field of (inter)cultural education at the University of Bielefeld. In her book ‘Spürbare Bildung’ (Sensible Awareness in Pedagogical Processes) she has developed a participatory approach, working with images of remembering based on Gadamers philosophical and zur Lippes aesthetic hermeneutics. Her current research is motivated by the goal to make the artistic experience useful for qualitative research and transferable to (art)teaching to establish an attitude of awareness and sensitivity as a professional disposition.