Mara Rader has been a research associate in the FALKO-PV research group since 2021 and at the Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature at the University of Regensburg since 2020. Her research focuses on the professional knowledge of German teachers, subject-specific criteria of teaching quality and empirical research in German didactics. She previously studied for a teaching degree in German and English for secondary education at the University of Klagenfurt.
Academic career
- since 2021: Research associate in the research group FALKO-PV (subject-specific teacher competences: predictive validation), University of Regensburg
- since 2020: Research associate at the Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature, University of Regensburg
- 2019-2020: Tutor and student assistant (student/research assistant) at the Institute of German Language and Literature, Department of Didactics, University of Klagenfurt
- 2018-2019: Student assistant (student/research assistant) in the project Bildungsstandardtestung (BIST) Lesen National, University of Klagenfurt
- 2015-2021: Bachelor's and Master's degree programme teaching degree secondary level, subject German and English, University of Klagenfurt (Degree: B.Ed. M.Ed.)
- 2013-2015: Bachelor's degree in theatre, film and media studies, University of Vienna
Teaching
Mara Rader regularly offers courses on the following topics:
Introductory Events for New Students
- Introduction to the didactics of German (subject GS)
- Introduction to the didactics of German (subject MS/RS/GY)
- Basic course: German language didactics (third subject didactics)
- Basic course: German literature and media didactics (third subject didactics)
Literature and media didactics
- Teaching media skills: digital literacy
- Acquiring media competence: German lessons between clickbait and hashtags
- Acquiring media skills with auditory and audiovisual media
- Analysing and reflecting on media presentation strategies and preparing them for the classroom
- Surf, click, read: Successfully promoting digital reading
- Between books and e-books: the basics of modern reading promotion at school
- From anecdotes to fairy tales - learning and teaching with stories
Language didactics
- Between generic and subject-specific: teaching quality using the example of literary learning
- Quality writing lessons: Perspectives within the framework of the synthesis framework
The courses in the current semester can be found on the campus portal (external link, opens in a new window). More information on the courses offered by the chair can be found under Teaching.
Research
- Professional knowledge of German teachers
- Empirical research in German didactics
- (Subject-specific) criteria of teaching quality
Selected publications
Lindl, A., Simböck, L., Rader, M., Hofrichter, M., Gutsmiedl, M., Böhringer, S., & Ehrich, P. (2025). Merkmale guten Unterrichts aus Sicht von (angehenden) Lehrkräften – Ergebnisse einer Onlinebefragung in den fünf Unterrichtsfächern Deutsch, Englisch, Evangelische Religion, Latein und Musik. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-025-01323-1 (external link, opens in a new window)
Lindl, A., Rader, M., & Simböck, L. (2025). Gendersensibilität als Aspekt von Unterrichtsqualität in den Fächern Deutsch und Mathematik? In I. Glockentöger (Hrsg.), Förderung von Genderkompetenz in der Ausbildung von Lehrkräften (S. 81–92). wbv.
Lindl, A., Ehrich, P., Gutsmiedl, M., Rader, M., Simböck, L., Gürtner, M., Böhringer, S., Krämer, A., Kirchhoff, J., & Frei, M. (2024). Und wo bleibt die Ästhetik? Betrachtung en zu einer weiteren Dimension von Unterrichtsqualität aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. In M. Hemmer, C. Angele, C. Bertsch, S. Kapelari, G. Leitner, & M. Rothgangel (Hrsg.), Fachdidaktik im Zentrum von Forschungstransfer und Transferforschung. Beiträge der GFD-ÖGFD-Tagung Wien 2022 (S. 371–388). Waxmann.
Hofrichter, M., Lindl, A., Rader, M., & Krämer, A. (2024). Was macht guten Fremdsprachenunterricht aus? Theoretische Überlegungen und erste Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Onlinebefragung in den Fächern Englisch und Latein. In V. Lohe, A. Lindl, & P. Kirchhoff (Hrsg.), Unterrichtsqualität in schulischen Fremdsprachen. Theoretische Ansätze und empirische Ergebnisse aus den Fachdidaktiken (S. 109–138). Waxmann.
Schilcher, A., & Rader, M. (2022). Professionalität von Deutschlehrkräften – auf der Suche nach der guten Deutschlehrkraft. In T. von Brand, J. Kilian, A. Sosna, & T. Riecke- Baulecke (Hrsg.), Basiswissen Lehrerbildung: Deutsch unterrichten (S. 72–89). Klett- Kallmeyer.
The complete list of publications is available here. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
Mara Rader
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