Leibniz works 4.0: Changing learning and working environments in vocational teacher education.

The project Leibniz works 4.0 forms a future concept for the vocational teaching profession at Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). The overarching professional-theoretical goal of the project is the training of reflective ability to act in vocational contexts. This key competence for long-term successful teacher action is essentially developed in the course of studies and is therefore a decisive component of university-based teacher professionalization.

The project is based on two levels:

1. on a structural level, the model Vocational Teacher Education Lower Saxony 2025, which is to be developed, is to increase the attractiveness of the study program. Measures to open up the program, standardize it and make it more flexible will be initiated in order to attract significantly more new students, retain them in the program and lead them to a degree qualifying them to become teachers.

At the curricular level, the massive challenges of the changing world of work 4.0 are being met through innovative teaching-learning scenarios related to the work of vocational school teachers.

Digitization plays a central role in both areas. On the one hand, it is a means of improving studyability, e.g. by making classroom teaching more flexible via e-learning formats (orientation to the learner). On the other hand, it is a didactic and subject-related learning object (competence requirement).