Dr. Heike Liepelt, M.A.

Heike Liepelt was a research assistant at zepf from December 2018 to May 2025 and conducted a reconstructive study as part of her doctorate on how teachers deal with the counseling-related demands of their profession.

 

heike.liepelt@rptu.de
06341/280 32 174
Bürgerstraße 23, zepf, room 137

 

For any inquiries by e-mail from students, please state your full name, subject, semester and matriculation number.

Consultation hours: by appointment

Supervision of qualitative-empirical or theoretical theses in educational sciences and educational science on the following topics

  • school (parental) counseling
  • professionalization of teachers
  • implicit knowledge and informal learning of teachers

If you are interested, please send an inquiry with details of the intended time period, initial ideas/questions, theoretical or empirical orientation (currently no supervision possible for the summer semester 2025 or later).

  • Dissertation "The challenge of parent counseling - How teachers learn to deal with a professional task for which they are not trained", https://doi.org/10.26204/KLUEDO/8796
  • Poster "The challenge of parent counseling. Reconstruction of counseling-related learning of teachers", Expert Meeting Counseling Research: interdisciplinary - conceptual - empirical, 2024, Bielefeld University
  • Roundtable lecture "Counseling parents - how teachers learn to get along with a neglected professional task", EARLI SIG14, 2022, University of Paderborn
  • Presentation "Dealing with counseling-related demands by teachers - A reconstructive study", Conference "Counseling and Supervision in the Education of Teachers", 2021, Bielefeld University
  • Poster "Teachers' professional learning regarding parent counseling", EARLI SIG14, 2020, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • Presentation "Professional learning of teachers in counseling", 8th Meeting of PDRnet, 2019, University of Koblenz-Landau
  • from 2020: Material contributions in various workshops and research workshops on the documentary method

Professional career
since 10/2024Further training as a systemic consultant at the Systemic Institute Tübingen
since 06/2019Member of the editorial staff of the journal Empirische Pädagogik
since 12/2018Research assistant at zepf, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau site (formerly University of Koblenz-Landau)
11/2017 - 11/2018Research assistant in the Equal Opportunities and Social Diversity Unit, University of Mannheim
04/2014 - 09/2014Student assistant at the Chair of Continuing Education and Counseling at the Institute of Educational Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
09/2010 - 08/2013Student assistant at the Center for Learning and Knowledge Management, RWTH Aachen University
02/2012 - 03/2012Research internship at the School of Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, including the project "Keeping Cool: Embedding resilience in the teacher education curriculum"
Qualification theses

Dissertation

"The challenge of parent counseling. How teachers learn to deal with a professional task for which they are not trained"
Master's thesis"Optimization of the observation inventory for recording empathic communication of teachers at school (BEEK-L) as a research object. A qualitative-empirical study on the conditions of understanding."
Bachelor thesis"Motivational aspects of student mobility abroad - A systematic literature review."

Education

10/2013 - 07/2017Study of educational science with a focus on organizational development (M.A.), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
10/2012 - 07/2017Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
10/2009 - 03/2013Studied industrial education and knowledge psychology as well as linguistics and communication science (B.A.), RWTH Aachen University

  • Seminar "Introduction to counseling in the school context" (Educational Sciences Module 1.3 and 2.3)

 

Extramural teaching activities:

  • 07/2022: Workshop "Professionalism in conducting conversations with parents" at Gymnasium Rutesheim
  • 11/2018: Workshop "Non-violent communication in schools" for the GEW

  • Counseling research in the school context
  • Professionalization and expertise research
  • Tacit knowledge and informal learning (of teachers)
  • Dealing with uncertainty in the professional context, especially in pedagogical fields of action
  • Reconstructive social research, especially the documentary method and professional biographical interviews

Memberships

  • from 06/2020 - 04/2023 Documentary Research Workshop South-West of the DGfE Section School Pedagogy
  • from 04/2020 - 05/2022 DGfE-funded network for young researchers
  • since 04/2019 German Society for Educational Science (associate member)
    • Section 4 - Empirical Educational Research, Commission Working Group Empirical Pedagogical Research
    • Section 5 - School Pedagogy, Commission for Professional Research and Teacher Education