Prof. Dr. Annette Dreier

• Elementary and primary education
• Developmental and educational processes of children
• Educational research
• Aesthetic education
• Practical reform in daycare centres and primary schools
• Architecture and interior design
• Designing transitions
• Establishment of a research kindergarten at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in cooperation with the daycare centre provider FROEBEL
• Participation in the research network of FROEBEL research kindergartens
• Development of a trainée programme with the daycare provider INA.KINDERGARTEN

• Since 2007 Professor of Pedagogy and Education in Childhood at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Head of the B.A. degree programme "Education in Childhood" (BABEK) from 2009 to 2017; since 2017 Vice Dean of the Department of Social and Educational Sciences
• 2005 to 2007 Professor of Childhood Education at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, set up the first degree programme for childhood educators, "Education and Training in Childhood" (EBK)
• 2003 to 2005 Research assistant at the FU Berlin in the project "PONTE – Kindergärten und Grundschulen auf neuen Wegen" in cooperation with the German Children and Youth Foundation, the FU Berlin and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the State of Brandenburg; co-author of the Berlin educational programme for day-care centres and the educational recommendations for the Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Saarland; design of B. A. degree programmes in childhood education
• 1996 – 2003 Academic assistant at the Centre for Primary Education Research (headed by Prof. Jörg Ramseger) at the Free University of Berlin with teaching and research activities on school development concepts, on cooperation between families and schools, on the development of educational concepts, on the architecture of primary schools
• 1994 Doctorate in Philosophy at the Department of Education and Teaching Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts; dissertation on the topic: "Reggio-Pädagogik. Analysis and interpretation of a concept of pre-school education" ("summa cum laude")
• 1990 – 1996 Research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts, research and teaching activities on concepts of elementary and primary school education, aesthetic education, spatial design, language and literacy acquisition, development of children's drawings
• 1988 – 1999 Lecturer in further education and training courses for various organisations as well as teaching at the "Associació de Mestres Rosa Sensat" (educators' association) in Barcelona / Spain, advising educators and representatives of the administration
• 1981 – 1988 Employee at the Free University of Berlin in the Institute for Early Childhood Education (Head: Prof. E.K. Beller) and employee in the school experiment "Coordinated Bilingual Literacy" (Head: Prof. J. Zimmer)
• 1979 – 1986 Studied educational science and psychology in Münster, Berlin and Parma / Italy, specialising in early childhood education and adult education, including research stays in Reggio Emilia and Barcelona

Advisory board activity

• Member of the scientific advisory board of INA.Kindergarten Berlin
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the KinderKünsteZentrum Berlin

• Dreier, Annette: Raumgestaltung als pädagogische Absicht, Vortrag an der Kunsthochschule Giebichenstein Halle im MA-Studiengang Spiel- und Lerndesign am 25.04.2022
• Dreier, Annette: Die Sprachentwicklung von Kindern erfassen und unterstützen, Vortrag im KinderKünsteZentrum Berlin, November 2021
• Dreier, Annette: Räume bilden. Raumgestaltung in pädagogischen Kontexten, Vortrag im Rahmen der Weiterbildung „Fachkraft für kulturelle Bildung“ am 1.10.2019 in Berlin
• Dreier, Annette: Studiare per diventare maestra? Lo studio per il lavoro al nido a Potsdam, Vortrag beim Fachtag für pädagogische Fachkräfte in Lucca / Italien am 21.05.2019
• Dreier, Annette: Kunst in der Kniebeuge: Gedanken zur Ästhetischen Bildung, Vortrag am 29.4.2019 in Berlin

• Conception and realisation of a research kindergarten at the FH Potsdam in cooperation with the daycare centre provider FROEBEL
• Research cooperation with the Volkspark daycare centre, Potsdam
• Conception and realisation of the film "Die Besten für die Jüngsten" on the Education and Childhood Education course
• Setting up an exhibition on the topic of "Interior design in daycare centres through the ages"
• Qualification of daycare centre practice consultants in cooperation with the SFBB