Christine Prasch
Labor et Educatio, 7 (2019), 2019, pp. 61 - 87
https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561LE.19.004.11521Research-based learning is an outstanding and very demanding form of university education. Established teaching/learning formats have to be overcome, which begins with time-consuming didactic considerations of course planning, continues during the supervision of students during the semester and leads to a completely different interpretation of the role of teachers. On the basis of necessary didactic preliminary considerations for the realization of research-based learning in a higher education context, the article introduces the concrete thematic implementation in the case study of the "Introduction to Scientific Work" module. In order to be able to reflect research-based learning under the paradigms of self-regulated and self-organized learning again and again, in team meetings at the horizontal level of the students, it proved to be useful to have a common topic to be worked on during the conception of the module. Due to the fact that all participants in the yet unfinished pilot project are studying one of the variants in the field of public health, initial experiences in a methodologically qualitative social space analysis appeared to be manageable. On the basis of some target group-oriented comments on social epidemiology, the contribution describes the scientific significance of social space. On this basis, the implementation of the didactics of research-based learning in six courses, each consisting of four teaching units of 45 minutes, is presented.