Research Training for Doctoral Candidates in the Field of Education and Technology

Abstract

Which opportunities for academic qualification are available to young researchers in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of research in Education Science and related Media Technology Research? Junior researchers in this particular field often face the problem of not being able to find suitable theoretical access to the pursued doctoral subject. In many research centers, one may also find the expectation of successfully processing externally funded projects as a priority, before the issue of one’s own personnel development can be sufficiently taken into account. As an approach to dealing with such challenges, the doctoral program “Education & Technology” has been developed. It allows further internationalizing and structuring of the doctoral training with the aim of improving the scientific quality, international scientific competitiveness, and the individual feasibility of doctoral projects in the respective domain of media and education in a generalizable way.