Anke Grotlüschen

In March 2017 Anke Grotlüschen organised a conference in honour of Peter Faulstich together with Silke Schreiber-Barsch, Christine Zeuner and Sabine Schmidt-Lauff as well as Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland about the political aspects in Adult Education, one of the main foci of the work of Peter Faulstich.

The research foci of Anke Grotlüschen are educational interests, addressee research and interest research, literacy, learning resistance and E-Learning. In the area of higher education she focuses especially on public science and didactic as well as research of higher education. In the area of educational system monitoring, she is especially interested in the topics globalisation and law as well as political and cultural education. With the "leo. – Level-One Study" from 2009 to 2013 Anke Grotlüschen was responsible for the first comprehensive study of literacy in Germany. Building on this, the current "Leo-Grundbildungsstudie" is conceptualised.

From 1998 – 2000 she worked as a coordinator in ESF-Programmes at the Berufsbildungswerk DGB GmbH (bfw) in Lübeck, until she became a research assistant at the University of Hamburg at the department of Education with the foci Adult Education and leisure research. She wrote her PhD in 2003 about learning resistance in E-Learning "Virtuell und selbstbestimmt? Widerständiges Lernen im Web" with Peter Faulstich as dissertation advisor. She took over different positions in the area of media education before becoming junior professor for Lifelong Learning at the institute for Adult Education research, Faculty of Education at the University of Bremen in 2005. Her project "Knochen kommt zum Hund", which enabled parents of students to understand PISA and PIACC from a research perspective, was distinguished by the "Stifter Verband" in 2006. Her habilitation was about the development of interest. In 2008 Anke Grotlüschen became Professor for Adult Education in Cultural and Social Contexts, before changing the position within the Institute for Education at the University of Hamburg, to become a professor for Lifelong Learning.

Anke Grotlüschen studied at the Wirtschaftsakademie Hamburg from 1988 – 1991 and finished as Betriebswirtin (Business Administration). She continued studying educational sciences from 1991 – 1997 with the main topics being Adult Education as well as psychology, sociology and politics as minors at the University of Hamburg. She finished this study program with a thesis about political education in the perspective of critical psychology.

Anke Grotlüschen (born 1969) is an educational researcher and professor at the University of Hamburg.