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Welche Rolle spielt das Fach bei der Verzahnung und Vernetzung von Fachdidaktik und Fachwissenschaft?

Abstract

This paper is based on results of the research and teaching project Digi-Spotlights. The aim of the project is to develop exemplary teaching concepts that systematically relate components of subject matter and subject matter didactics in university teacher education to one another and investigate the interlinking of the two content areas among students. Crossing disciplinary boundaries is an essential component in the project. A comparison of the model projects in mathematics and English and the later-launched project in political sciences reveals similarities but also discipline-specific differences in the objectives and challenges of linking subject matter and subject matter didactics. The different disciplinary cultures and institutional frameworks provide favourable factors, but also obstacles. This article highlights and discusses both the common but also the discipline-specific didactic-methodological consequences for teaching scenarios in university teacher education that result from the project.