Prof. Dr. Regina Remsperger-Kehm

• Professionalisation and quality development in early childhood education
• Shaping interaction and relationships in educational processes
• Observation and documentation of children's educational processes
• Didactics in early childhood education
• Education plans and education policy
• Social work as education, supervision and supervision in childhood
• Cooperation with families/educational partnerships
• Family - a multidisciplinary introduction
• Health science access to social work
• Qualitative methods in social research

• Designing professional-child interactions
• Prevention of violence and health promotion in early childhood education
• Children's rights and child protection
• Quality development and specialist counselling in early education

Strengthening sensitive behaviour - protecting children (from 2025)

• Development of a qualification for academic advisers on the prevention of harmful behaviour in children's day-care facilities; cooperation with the State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Care, Division State Youth Welfare Office, Paper 36 (Social Education Training Centre), Rhineland-Palatinate
• Publication: Boll, Astrid; Miehe-Gruhn, Jennifer; Rein, Regina & Remsperger-Kehm, Regina (2025). Take a stand - act courageously! Academic adviser in institutional child protection. Verlag das netz.

Ethics in early childhood educators (June 2023 - January 2024)

• Analysis of ethics issues in early childhood educators
• Publication: Remsperger-Kehm, Regina (2024). Early childhood educator professional ethics - A search for clues. In Peter Cloos, Edita Jung, Claus Stieve, Susanne Viernickel & Dörte Weltzien (eds.). The early childhood educator project - search movements and perspectives on the twentieth anniversary of early childhood educator study programmes. (S. 87-101). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

M.O.V.E. + in the Mutausbruch program (February 2024 - September 2024)

• Development of a qualification concept for the Mutausbruch program; Sponsor: Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung e.V. (PKV); Network: Fulda University of Applied Sciences; University of Hildesheim; Centre for Child and Youth Research, EH Freiburg
• Publication: Weltzien, Dörte; Remsperger-Kehm, Regina et al. (contribution accepted). Children's perspectives on hurtful behaviour in day-care practice. In Wilfried Smidt; Barbara Benoist-Kosler & Eva-Maria Embacher (eds.). Interactions, relationships and attachments in early childhood. Waxmann.

Escalating interactions in children's day-care facilities (January 2023 - November 2023)

• Analysis of qualitative data from the nationwide online survey of daycare centre managers on hurtful behaviour (Schrauth 2021)
• Publication: Remsperger-Kehm, Regina & Boll, Astrid (2024). Escalating interactions in children's day-care facilities. In Perspectives on empirical child and youth research. Issue 1/2024. Volume 10(1). S. 5-27

M.O.V.E. - Courage, Openness, Responsibility, Development: A training set for dealing with hurtful behaviour (November 2021 - January 2024)

• Development and implementation of a training programme for education professionals as part of the Mutausbruch project; sponsor: Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung e.V. (PKV)
• Publication: Reactions of children to hurtful behaviour by education professionals. Contribution to the symposium "Children's perspectives on hurtful behaviour by professionals in daycare centres: empirical results and participatory approaches to prevention". together with Astrid Boll, Ruth Büllesbach, Jessica Ferber, Rieke Hoffer, Maike Rönnau-Böse, Dörte Weltzien. 3rd Innsbruck Conference on Elementary Education: Interaction - Relationship - Attachment.

Nationwide leadership study "Violent behaviour of professionals in day-care centres" (March 2021 - July 2021)

• Development of the questionnaire; cooperation with the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft (BAG) Mehr Sicherheit für Kinder e.V. and the Institute for Empirical Sociology Nuremberg, funded by the Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung e.V. (PKV) as part of the program "Maßnahmenentwicklung zur Förderung der Gewaltprävention im Setting Kindertagesstätte" (Development of measures to support violence prevention in the day-care centre setting)
• Publication: Contribution to Schrauth, B. (2021). Nationwide survey study "Violent behaviour of professionals in day-care centres" - Tabular results report, July 2021. Nuremberg: Institute for Empirical Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Offending behaviour in daycare centres (May 2020 - December 2020)

• Exploratory study on forms, ways of dealing with, causes and requirements for action from the perspective of education professionals in children's day-care facilities
• Publication: Boll, Astrid & Remsperger-Kehm, Regina (2021). Offending behaviour in daycare centres - An exploratory study on forms, ways of dealing with it, causes and requirements for action from the perspective of professionals. Opladen, Berlin & Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

"Expertly advising, professionally accompanying" (since October 2018)

• Conception and implementation of a qualification series for daycare centre counsellors; development of the modules: Self-image of academic adviser; Appreciative and advising communication; Forms and types of advisory services
• Cooperation with the State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Care, State Youth Welfare Office, Division 36 (Social Pedagogical Training Centre), Rhineland-Palatinate

"The role of academic advisers in the system of quality development in early education" (November 2011 - October 2014)

• Reconstruction of the self-image and professional habitus formations of specialist counselling and development of a qualification concept for specialist counselling
• Publication: May, Michael; Remsperger, Regina & Weidmann, Stefan (2015). Habitus and professionalisation of expert advice in children's day-care facilities. In A. König, H. R. Leu & S. Viernickel (Eds.). Research perspectives on professionalisation in early childhood education: empirical findings of the AWiFF funding line. (S. 232-247). Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa.

"Thuringian children's day-care facilities on the way to becoming parent-child centres" (December 2010 - June 2012)

• Development of the ThEKiZ concept and conceptualisation and implementation of academic monitoring of the model facilities
• Publication: Rißmann, Michaela, Remsperger-Kehm, Regina & Klaus, Anne (2016). Training concept "On the way to the Thuringian Parent-Child Centre" Available at: https://thekiz.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Fotbildungskonzept-ThEKiZ-end.pdf

Sensitive responsiveness (2005 - 2010)

• Video study on sensitive pedagogical behaviour in professional-child interactions in children's day-care facilities
• Publication: Remsperger, Regina (2011). Sensitive responsiveness - On the quality of educational behaviour in day nurseries. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
  Remsperger-Kehm, Regina (2017). Sensitive Responsiveness - An Approach to the Analysis and Improvement of Teacher-Child Interactions in Early Childhood Settings. In A. C. Gunn & C. A. Hruska (Eds.), Interactions in Early Childhood Education. Recent Research and Emergent Concepts. (19-36). Singapore: Springer

• German Society for Social Work
• Committee on Early Childhood Education of the German Educational Research Association
• Committee on Social Pedagogy of the German Society for Educational Science
• Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability (CeSSt), Fulda University of Applied Sciences
• Social Law and Social Policy Research Network of the University of Kassel and Fulda University of Applied Sciences
• Federal Working Group for Education and Upbringing in Childhood e.V.
• Founding member of the "Bundesnetzwerk Fortbildung und Beratung in der Frühpädagogik e.V." (Federal Network for Further Education and Advisory Services in Early Childhood Education)
• German League for the Child
• Member of the Child Protection - Child Health - Family Education Network, Mayen-Koblenz district administration
• Member of the Federal Network Learning Stories
• German Association of University Teachers
• Hesse Alliance for Early Education
• Alliance for a child-centred all-day school system (Hesse)

Research committees and expert activities

• Academic advisory board and reviewer for the series "Forschung in der Frühpädagogik", Verlag Forschung, Entwicklung, Lehre: Freiburg
• Scientific advisory board in the project "Quality development of attachment-related interactions of education professionals in children's day-care facilities - validation of a training concept - QuebIn", Centre for Child and Youth Research, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg; project managers: Prof. Dr Dörte Weltzien, Prof. Dr Klaus Fröhlich-Gildhoff
• Academic advisory board in the project "Recording the well-being and psychological risks of children under three in children's day-care facilities (WoGe)", University of Leipzig; project manager: Prof. Dr Susanne Viernickel
• Academic advisory board for the project "Healthy daycare centres - healthy professionals, happy children", Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Business. Project managers: Prof. Dr Rahel Dreyer, Prof. Dr Susanne Geister, Prof. Dr André Beinrucker
• Research Advisory Board of the Thuringian Institute for Early Childhood Educators at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, ThInKPäd; Institute management: Prof Dr Barbara Lochner, Prof Dr Michaela Rißmann
• Member of the research network Education Relations, Reckahn Reflections, working group Human Rights Education
• Member of the expert group "Fachberatung" | Weiterbildungsinitiative Frühpädagogische Fachkräfte (WiFF) project at the German Youth Institute (Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V.)
• Member of the expert panel for the project "Violence Prevention in Child Day Care Centres", Federal Working Group (BAG) Mehr Sicherheit für Kinder e.V.
• Reviewer for "Discourse on Childhood and Youth Research"
• Academic advisory board for the project "Building bridges", trade union for education and research
• Academic advisory board member for the project "Frühstart LEBEN", early intervention for premature and at-risk newborns and their families in Sofia/Bulgaria, Diakonie Frankfurt

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