Research interests

• Early childhood education and care, as well as its quality in early education institutions and family settings
• Biographical experiences of professionals as influencing factors on early childhood educational processes and their quality
• Early childhood education for sustainable development
• Social inequality
• Theories and approaches to justice

Curriculum Vitae

M.A. Nicole Voss

• Since 2023: Research Associate, Department of Early Childhood Education, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2022: Student Assistant at pädquis foundation in the project NUBBEK II - Fokusstudie Brandenburg and at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE) - SIIVE Sektion
• 2020-2023: Master of Arts in Educational Science, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2018-2021: Student Assistant at Department Education and Futures Research (Prof. Gerhard deHaan) in the project "Wissenschaftliche Beratung und nationales Monitoring zu Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE)" and UNESCO-BNE-programm "ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) for 2030"
• 2017-2020: Bachelor of Arts in Educational Science, Freie Universität Berlin
• 1998-2017: Work in Early Childhood Education Practice, as preschool teacher and early childhood professional for Nature and Forest Education, focal points: Science and Mathematics

Awards/Scholarships

• 2017-2023: Receiving of the Career Advancement and Master's Scholarship from the Foundation for the Promotion of Vocational Talents of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Seminar C: Selected Concepts

In this seminar, we will jointly address early childhood education concepts for dealing with heterogeneity in early education and care institutions. After a theoretical introduction to the approaches of co-construction, anti-bias and doing-gender, students can focus on and develop selected concepts for dealing with heterogeneity under their own focus and constant supervision by the lecturers. The idea of the teaching-learning concept intertwines scientific theories/knowledge with early childhood education practice. The willingness of the participants to work independently and on their own responsibility (in groups) and to engage in self-reflective, biographical analysis is fundamental.

Current Projects

Publications

Voss, N. (2023). Das Echo (aus) der Kindheit - Selbst erlebte Bildungs- und Erziehungserfahrung frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte und ihr Einfluss auf deren pädagogische Praxis - Eine Studie im Mixed-Methods Design. (Masterarbeit, Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie). Freie Universität Berlin. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-37506

Singer-Brodowski, M., & Voss, N. (2023). Kindheit im Zeitalter des Anthropozäns - Stand und Spannungsfelder frühkindlicher Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. In Braches-Chyrek, R., Moran-Ellis, J., Röhnert, C., Sünker, H. (Hrsg.). Handbuch Kindheit, Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit. Barbara Budrich.