Prof. Dr. Caroline Villiger Hugo
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Schwerpunktprogramm Familie – Bildung – SchuleInstitut für Forschung, Entwicklung und Evaluation
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+41 31 309 22 03
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Focus of work
Head of the Research Programme "Family – Education – School"
Professional interests
- Cooperation between school and family
- Reading promotion in families and schools
- Extracurricular learning and leaning at home
- Psychology of learning, learning strategies
- intervention research in education
Education
- 2011 Doctoral Degree at Georg-August-University Göttingen/Germany (Dr. disc. pol in Education)
- 2010–2011 Scholarship for doctoral students from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2008–2011 Research residence at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 2002 Licentiate in Pedagogy and Educational Psychology, University of Freiburg/CH
Professional experience
- 2019–present Head of the Research Programme "Family – Education – School"
- 2018–present Lecturer at the Institute for Lower Secondary Education of Bern University of Teacher Education (Introduction to Psychology of learning)
- 2017–2019 Grants Officer and Head of the Open Research Programme at the Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation, Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2011–2017 Lecturer in Education/Psychology and Research at Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2015–2017 Responsible Applicant for the SNF project LiT – Paired Reading
- 2005–2015 Research Associate at the Research Centre of Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2002–2004 Research Associate at the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Freiburg/CH
- 1999–2000 German Teacher for students with immigrant background at various kindergartens in the city of Freiburg
Commissions, mandates and memberships
- 2017–present Responsible Editor of the Swiss Journal of Educational Research
- The Swiss Society of Research in Education (SGBF)
Research projects outside of Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2014–2017 SNSF project "Paired Reading – a Comparative Intervention Study on the Influence of Parent and Volunteer Tutors on Reading Performance of Third Graders with Reading Difficulties", Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2011–2013 Project "Cooperative Learning in Mathematics Education" (STAD), Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2007–2010 SNSF project "LiFuS – Reading in Families and Schools", Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2002–2004 SNSF project "On the Development of Political Cognition", University of Freiburg/CH
Publications