The joint research project studied the digital extracurricular learning and educational practices of young people. Its interdisciplinary and triangulating four sub-projects focused on practices that are geared towards both curricular topics of formal school education and vocational orientation as well as towards the more interest-based knowledge and skills of leisure. To combination of projects from general didactics, media education and pedagogy, communication and media studies as well as specialized didactics allowed for a comprehensive perspective on explanatory videos and tutorials. They were especially prominent on video sharing platforms like YouTube where they are extensively used by teenagers and young people. In addition, the project also examined the content and educational dimension of adolescent communicative repertoires in order to describe and analyze the variety of individual and collective practices of extracurricular learning, professionalization, and self-enhancement.
The collaborative project was a joint initiative with Sven Kommer and Frauke Intemann from RWTH Aachen University and my Bremen colleague Karsten Wolf. It was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; project no: 01JD1804B).
Selected project publications:
Honkomp-Wilkens, Verena; Jung, Patrick; Altmaier, Nina; Wolf, Karsten D., & Pentzold, Christian (2024): Learning Together with YouTube? Adolescents’ Collective Use of Explanatory Audiovisual Content. In: Computers in the Schools. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2024.2322166