[Translate to Englisch:] Lehre an der KU: diskursiv
“Lecturers and students interactively shape the educational landscape. We maintain a high academic value in open, critical and reflective exchange. Based on their research expertise, our lecturers guide different learning processes that are methodically diverse, discursive and didactically competent. By adequately linking on-campus teaching, self-directed learning, and digital teaching-learning settings, lecturers support a study culture of academic freedom in shared responsibility. In this way, students and their expertise are encouraged and challenged for the advancement of their own educational and qualification process.“ - Excerpt from the Mission Statement for Studies and Teaching.
Examples of good practice
![[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann und Dr. Thomas Brunner](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/8/csm_BrunnerHoffmannNeu_871370e4e4.jpg "[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann und Dr. Thomas Brunner")
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann, Chairholder of English Language and Linguistics, and Dr. Thomas Brunner, Akademischer Rat at the same Chair, received the Good Teaching Award in the category "Innovation" in 2020. The prize was awarded for three seminars and a conference for the module "Language Structure and Language Use". The aim of this module is to familiarize students with approaches in modern linguistics. To this end, they can attend one of the seminars "Construction Grammar", "Cognitive Morphology" and "Cognitive Semantics", each of which deals with an exemplary sub-area of linguistics. Students usually do not know what the participants of the respectively other seminars deal with. Hoffmann and Brunner changed that radically by bringing students from all seminars together in the innovative "Cognitive Linguistics in Context" conference format and specifically encouraging dialog between the courses. Means for implementation: A "snowball principle" for short presentations and linguistics expert Noam Chomsky (played by Hoffmann) as an opponent in the panel discussion.