Prof. Dr. Ellen Kollender

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C1.301b
Fon +49.4131.677-2371, ellen.kollender@leuphana.de
Juniorprofessor*in, Junior Professorship of Inclusion and Diversity

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Vita

Ellen Kollender is a Professor of Inclusion and Diversity at the Institute of Social Work and Social Education at the University of Lüneburg. Her work focuses on:

  • Education and upbringing in the context of forced/migration, nationhood and transnationalisation
  • Racism, intersectionality and institutional discrimination
  • Pedagogical professionalism and anti-discriminatory school development in migration societies
  • Concepts and theories of inclusion, anti-discrimination and anti-racism
  • Economisation processes in the discursive field of forced/migration and education
  • Methods and methodologies of qualitative social research

Positions (Selection)

  • Since 4/2024: Professor (W1) for "Inclusion and Diversity", Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Education
  • 5/2022 - 3/2024: Associate Professor (W3) for "Heterogeneity", RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Faculty of Education
  • 1/2021 - 4/2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Education, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 9/2019 - 12/2020: Mercator Fellow at Sabancı University Istanbul (Turkey)
  • 4/2016 - 8/2019: Research Assistant at the Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Research, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 4/2012 - 3/2016: Doctoral fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation

Networking

  • Since 2024: Network for Gender and Diversity Research at Leuphana University
  • Since 2020: Network for Refugee Studies
  • Since 2020: Council for Migration
  • Since 2019: German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Commission on “Education and Training in the Migration Society” and Commission on “Social Pedagogy”
  • Since 2019: European Educational Research Association (EERA), Network “Social Justice and Intercultural Education”

Reviewer activities (selection)

  • Berlin Senate Department for Integration, Labor, and Social Affairs
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • European Educational Research Journal
  • GENDER – Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
  • Global Center for Pluralism Canada
  • International Journal of Comparative Sociology
  • Race, Ethnicity and Education
  • Tertium Comparationis
  • World Education Research Conference
  • Journal for Migration Research in Educational Science
  • Journal for Pedagogy

Current consulting activities

  • Trusted lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation
  • Member of the Expert Advisory Board on Equity in Schools and Education at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.
  • Member of the expert group at the Migrant Parents Network Lower Saxony
  • Member of the advisory board for quality assurance "Learning and Migration" of "SchlaU-Werkstatt für Migrationspädagogik"

Current editorial activities

  • ‘Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue’, head of the department ‘Education and Upbringing in Migrant Societes’ (Julius Klinkhardt, with Aysun Doğmuş)

Research Interests

  • Education and upbringing in the context of forced/migration, nationhood and transnationalisation
  • Racism, intersectionality and institutional discrimination
  • Pedagogical professionalism and anti-discriminatory school development in migration societies
  • Concepts and theories of inclusion, anti-discrimination and anti-racism
  • Economisation processes in the discursive field of forced/migration and education
  • Methods and methodologies of qualitative social research

Projects

  1. Antidiskriminierungsberatung im Kontext Schule: Praktiken, Professionalisierungsprozesse und Erfahrungen von Rassismus betroffenen Schüler*innen und Eltern
    Ellen Kollender (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  2. Zukünfte des Erinnerns in der Postmigrationsgesellschaft: Konflikte, Kontinuitäten, Konkurrenzen
    Kevin Michael Drews (Project manager, academic) , Ellen Kollender (Project manager, academic) , Monika Schoop (Project manager, academic) , Lea Carmen Otremba (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  3. (New) Inclusion and Exclusion in the Context of Current Refugee Migration - Practices and Learning Processes in Schools Beyond the Metropolises
    Ellen Kollender (Project manager, academic) , Dorothee Schwendowius (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  4. Engaged Pedagogy Across Borders. Transnationale und intersektionale Perspektiven auf (sozial)pädagogische Professionalität in der Migrationsgesellschaft
    Ellen Kollender (Project manager, academic) , Beril Sönmez (Partner, non-academic)

    Project: Practical Project

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Ökonomisierungsprozesse im Diskursfeld Flucht/Migration und Bildung: Ein- und Ausschlüsse zwischen Persistenz und Veränderung
    Ellen Kollender (Editor) , Veronika Kourabas (Editor) , Niels Uhlendorf (Editor) , 2022 Opladen , 108 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  2. Eltern - Schule - Migrationsgesellschaft: Neuformation von rassistischen Ein- und Ausschlüssen in Zeiten neoliberaler Staatlichkeit
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , 2020 Bielefeld , 373 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research

  3. Diversitäts- und Antidiskriminierungskonzepte im Feld von Schule und Migration: Erfordernisse, Spannungen und Widersprüche
    Ellen Kollender (Editor) , Mechtild Gomolla (Editor) , Christine Riegel (Editor) , Wiebke Scharathow (Editor) , 2019 Opladen , 183 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  4. Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland: Figurationen und Interventionen in Gesellschaft und staatlichen Institutionen
    Ellen Kollender (Editor) , Mechtild Gomolla (Editor) , Marlene Menk (Editor) , 2018 Weinheim , 292 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  5. Bildung, Pluralität und Demokratie: Erfahrungen, Analysen und Interventionen in der Migrationsgesellschaft - Teil II
    Ellen Kollender (Editor) , Mechtild Gomolla (Editor) , Anna Joskowski (Editor) , Margarete Menz (Editor) , Ulrike Ofner (Editor) , Nadine Rose (Editor) , Ina Sylvester (Editor) , Susanne Timm (Editor) , Elisabeth Weller (Editor) , Nora Weuster (Editor) , 2015 Hamburg , 83 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. „Was die Organisation betrifft, ham wir sicherlich vom System her was gelernt“: Neue schulische Routinen und institutionelle Ausschlüsse im Kontext der Fluchtmigration aus der Ukraine
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , Dorothee Schwendowius (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung, 14 , p. 28 - 43 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Aktuelle Fluchtmigrationen als Anlass für schulischen Wandel?: Empirische Analysen und Reflexion von Transformationserwartungen
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , Dorothee Schwendowius (Author) , 19.12.2024 , in: Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung (ZeM), 3, 1+2 , p. 74-89 , 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Pädagogik in Zeiten der Katastrophe – Eine Solidaritätsveranstaltung mit Bildungsakteur:innen in der türkisch-syrischen Grenzregion
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , Dennis Barasi (Author) , Aysun Doğmuş (Author) , Aslı Polatdemir (Author) , 01.07.2024 , in: Voluntaris, 12, 1 , p. 141 - 147 , 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Transfer

  4. Deconstructing and reconstructing diversity in client-provider-relationships of social work
    Lars Alberth (Author) , Ellen Kollender (Author) , Anke Karber (Author) , Philipp Daniel Sandermann (Author) , Birte Siem (Author) , 24.04.2024 , in: Social Work & Society, 22, 2 , p. 1-8

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Marie Hoppe: Subjektwerdung unter Bedingungen von outsiderness: Subjektivierungstheoretische Lesarten kurdischer Schulbildungsbiographien in der Türkei.
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , 01.04.2024 , in: Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue (EWR), 23, 2

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Intersektionalität
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , Anja Steinbach (Author) , 28.03.2025

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  2. Solidarische Praktiken und (neue) natio-ethno-kulturelle Grenzziehungen an Schulen im Kontext gegenwärtiger Fluchtmigrationen aus der Ukraine: Eine Reflexion im Anschluss an Hannah Arendt
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , 01.01.2025 Leverkusen , p. 101-113 , 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Engaged Pedagogy across Borders: A written conversation on transnational educational approaches to addressing trajectories of discrimination against refugee children in Germany and Turkey
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , Nil Delahaye (Author) , Birte Gooßes (Author) , Beril Sönmez (Author) , 02.09.2024 Opladen, Berlin, Toronto , p. 185-206 , 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  4. Diskriminierungskritische Schulentwicklung durch Kooperationen mit migrationsgesellschaftlichen Akteur:innen? Konzeptionelle Überlegungen im Anschluss an Strategien des Community Organizing
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , 01.05.2024 Opladen , p. 47-59 , 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  5. (De-)Thematisierungsweisen von Bildungsausschlüssen an der Grenze zur EU: Oder: Zum Schweigen über Rassismus im europäischen Grenzregime
    Ellen Kollender (Author) , 26.01.2024 Bielefeld , p. 213-230 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. “Whose Culture has Capital?” Intersektionale Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Eltern und Schulen im Kontext dominanzgesellschaftlicher Anerkennungskulturen
    Ellen Kollender (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  2. Demokratische Schulentwicklung in der Migrationsgesellschaft
    Ellen Kollender (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Transfer

  3. Ambiguität: Demokratische Haltungen bilden in verunsichernden Zeiten
    Ellen Kollender (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Transfer

  4. Processing Uncertain Futures of Ukrainian Refugee Children in German Schools following the Russian Invasion
    Ellen Kollender (Speaker) , Dorothee Schwendowius (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Research

  5. Antrittsvorlesung: Erziehungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Inklusion und Diversität im Gefüge von Migration, Nationalstaatlichkeit und Transnationalisierung
    Ellen Kollender (Speaker)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Transfer

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Press / Media

  1. Fachinterview: Grenzzonen der Bildung - Schulen zwischen gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung und rechtsextremer Gewalt
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  2. "Flucht sollte als Teil der Schulkultur mitgedacht werden"
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  3. "Religionsstreit" an Berliner Schulen?
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  4. Der schöne Schein der Diversity-Industrie
    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Press/Media

  5. Eltern – Schule – Migrationsgesellschaft
    Interviewed once

    Press/Media: Press/Media

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Prizes

  1. "Lehrpreis" der Hochschuldidaktischen Arbeitsstelle der Universität Landau
    Ellen Kollender (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  2. "Wissenschaftspreis" der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
    Ellen Kollender (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  3. IPC-Mercator-Fellowship
    Ellen Kollender (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  4. Honoration für „besonderes Engagement in der Lehre“ durch die Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
    Ellen Kollender (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  5. Promotionsstipendium der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
    Ellen Kollender (Recipient) ,

    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

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Courses