Quality in literature teaching (QuaLITy)
The QuaLITy project aims to gain empirical insights into the practice of everyday literature lessons as they take place under authentic conditions without targeted external influence. It draws on preliminary work from the KoALa project and from Florian Hesse’s completed doctoral project. From autumn 2022 to summer 2025, we videotaped a total of nine lesson series on Wolfgang Herrndorf’s „Tschick“ (8th grade, Gymnasium). From each series, three lessons were filmed (introductory, middle, and final lessons; N = 27). In addition, we conducted interviews with the nine teachers and used student questionnaires. Two additional complete datasets are available for another school reading (N = 6 hours). Data analysis is currently underway. We are cooperating with Dr Alexander Naumann, who currently holds the Chair of Educational Data Science at TU Dortmund University.
Project-related publications:
- Hesse, Florian/Winkler, Iris (Hrsg.) (2025): Eine Literaturstunde – sechs Perspektiven auf Unterricht und Unterrichtsqualität. Ansätze literaturdidaktischer Unterrichtsforschung in der Diskussion. SLLD-B. https://doi.org/10.46586/SLLD.405
- Hesse, Florian/Winkler, Iris (2022): Fachliche Qualität im Literaturunterricht [Subject-specific teaching quality in literature lessons]. In: Zeitschrift für sprachlich-literarisches Lernen und Deutschdidaktik (SLLD-Z), 2. Jg., S. 1–29. https://doi.org/10.46586/SLLD.Z.2022.9605
- Hesse, Florian/Winkler, Iris (2021): Textauswahl und Auswahlbegründungen von Lehrpersonen beim Einsatz von Ganzschriften im achten Jahrgang am Gymnasium [Text selection and reasons for selection by teachers when using novels in the eighth year at grammar school]. In: Leseräume. Forum Literalitätsforschung, H. 7, S. 7–21.