Socialization and Adolescence research

Since 2025 – Research collaboration with Prof. Park, Hyoungbin (Seoul National University of Education), Dr. Zhenzhou Zhao (Hong Kong University of Education), and Dr. Jinting Wu (University at Buffalo) on Visualized Socialization Utopias in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Primary School Textbook Covers in China, Germany, South Korea, and the USA

Since 2024 – Research collaboration with Prof. Park, Hyoungbin (Seoul) on Youth and AI and Visualized Socialization Utopias in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Primary School Textbook Covers in China, Germany, South Korea, and the USA

Since 2023 - With Dr. Lin Ke (Beijing) and Dr. Zhenzhou Zhao (Hong Kong) Research collaboration on Youth and AI

Since 2023 - With Dr. Zhenzhou Zhao (Hong Kong) Research collaboration on historical and cultural comparative textbook analysis

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Prof. Dr. Zizek was invited by the Hong Kong University of Education to be a visiting professor for the summer of 2025.

In May, Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek completed a research stay at Seoul National University of Education - Hannam University and Daejeon University.

In collaboration with Dr. Zhao Zhenzhou and Daria Brakhage, Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek presented the article “Culture on textbook covers - Comparative microanalyses of lifeword in images on textbook covers between Germany and China” at the International Conference on Language, Culture and Education from April 8-9 - planned publication in 2025

In the spring, Daria Brakhage completed a four-week research stay at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, to collect data for her dissertation.

On January 21, 2025, Prof. Dr. Zizek gave a lecture entitled “On the Motivation, Structure, and Future of Digital Adolescence” as part of a lecture series at the University of Cologne. 

From October 24 to October 26, 2024, our work group was in New York and participated in the Association for Moral Education Conference in Queens.

The following papers were presented:

Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek & Daria Brakhage: Happy Socialization - Establishing a Research Perspective for an Age of Resource Conservation

Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek & Hanifa Abdul Hassan: Adolescence on the jump - Growing up in the face of potential migration
 

We would like to draw your attention to the following article: “Globalized probation seekers – Digital media as spaces for inspiration and presentation of one's own life plans.” Access via the following link: rdcu.be/dH4C9Wir attempt to reconstructively examine developments in this very dynamic socialization space in this area of work.