This year, the Ursula Buch-Prize has been awarded to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dorothee Gronostay for her work Argumentative Lehr-Lern-Prozesse im Politikunterricht – eine Videostudie (Springer VS, 2019).

In its justification, the jury praised the fact that Ms. Gronostay's monograph, which bundles her cumulative dissertation in one work, is a very successful, clear and coherent presentation of research results that suffice high scientific standards and at the same time have great practical relevance for political education. The work pursues a clearly defined interest in knowledge, which in its specificity enables a precise analysis and gains in depth and quality through the clear research focus. The empirical procedure and its results are conveyed linguistically in a particularly successful way. The empirical sub-studies, which build on one another, but at the same time each pursue its own question, are coherently and coherently classified in the underlying theoretical model. The mixed methods approach of qualitative and quantitative methods pursued in the studies is innovative, complex and very carefully implemented. In addition to the accuracy of the design of the studies, the jury also praised the precision of the presentation of their analyzes and findings, which not least underline the discrepancy between normative claims and empirically founded theories on political education.

We congratulate!

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