Dr. B. Johanna Funck

Vita

Since 2015 Dr. B. Johanna Funck has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Education in the Migration Society/Intercultural Education at the University of Bremen.

Since Oktober 2023, she has been working as a post-doc in research and teaching.

From 2017 to 2023, she conducted research on the implementation of the human right to education for children in the context of migration and different redidence status positions, and taught as a lecturer in the BA and MA module "Umgang mit Hetergenität in der Schule". Her dissertation will be published by transcript Verlag in the summer of 2024 under the following title: "Migration und Recht auf Bildung. Die Rolle des Aufenthaltsstatus beim Zugang zum Schulsystem" (English: 'Migration and the Right to Education. The Role of Residence Status in Access to the School System').

From 2015 to 2017, she worked on two research projects: In the context of a migration-sensitive teacher training program thorugh practical elements, from 2016-2017 she investigated the long-term effects of the practical project "Lehr-Lernwerkstatt: Fach*Sprache*Migration", which has been established at the University of Bremen since 2006, on the pedagogical skills of teachers. In 2015, she worked o a research project on the schoool enrollment of children without papers in primary schools.

Before joining the department, Funck completed her M.A. in Social Policy at the University of Bremen with an actor-centered study of the local implementation of specific education policies funded by the German government. In 2011 she finished her B.A. in Social Sciences at the Philipps-University Marburg with an analysis of the social construction of illegality.