Employees at the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025Research assistant in the research project "Diversity-reflective play materials in daycare facilities" [DiSiKit] funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, co-financed by the European Union in the Integration through Education funding line under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ina Kaul
since 2024Research assistant with a focus on children's perspectives at KiTeAro - Institute for Education, Research and Development in Pedagogy
since 2022

Lecturer on the Childhood Education B.A. and Social Work/Social Pedagogy B.A. courses at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

2024 until 2025

Research assistant in the teaching research project "Protection concepts in refugee shelters from the perspective of children and adolescents", funded by the Foundation Innovation in Higher Education, Freiraum 2023, under the direction of Profn. Drn. Michaela Hopf and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Terhardt

2023 to 2024

Research assistant at the Institute for Social Space-Oriented Practice Research and Development e.V. in the project "Perspectives of children on their living environment in a community in East Frisia" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Deinet

2022 to 2024Research assistant in the research project "The future of all-day schooling at Düsseldorf elementary school" at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the City of Düsseldorf under the direction of Profn. Drn. Irene Dittrich and Prof. Dr. Stefan Brall
2020 until 2022

Research assistant in the research project "Families in times of Corona", internal research funding of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

2019 until 2020

Researchassistant in the research project "Children as 'stakeholders' in daycare centers [KiSte] - Study on the children's influence on institutional arrangements", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the funding guideline Quality Development for Good Education in Early Childhood under the direction of Profn. Drn. Katja Gramelt

2019 until 2022

Student and research assistant in the context of tutorials and teaching at the Faculty of Social & Cultural Sciences at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

 

Publications

Gormanns, Yvonne & Dittrich, Irene (2025). Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog: Ein interaktives Veranstaltungsformat für gelingenden Wissenstransfer mit Kindern am Beispiel des Projektes „Zukunft des Ganztags“. In: Fuchs-Rechlin, K. & Hanssen, K. (Hrsg.), Vom Transfer zur Transformation – Strategien der Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Praxis. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

Gormanns, Yvonne & Dittrich, Irene (2024). „Und das ist mein Lieblingsort hier in der ganzen Schule […] und zwar nicht, weil ich da gerne bin, sondern weil die Sitzordnung gut ist.“ – (Be-)Deutungen von schulischen und (sozial-) pädagogischen Arrangements aus den Perspektiven von Kindern. In: A. Flügel, A. Gruhn, I. Landrock, J. Lange, B. Müller-Naendrup, J. Wiesemann, P. Büker & A. Rank (Hrsg.), Grundschulforschung meets Kindheitsforschung reloaded. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.

Gormanns, Yvonne & Bremerich, Laurin (2024). (Be-)Deutungen von schulisch-organisierten Räumen aus der Perspektive von Kindern – Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie zu Sichtweisen von Kindern auf Ganztagschule und Sozialräume. Verfügbar unter: https://www.sozialraum.de/be-deutungen-von-schulisch-organisierten-raeumen-aus-der-perspektive-von-kindern.php [Zugriff am: 04.06.24].

Gormanns, Yvonne/Simon, Stephanie & Skalska, Agata (2023). Kinder als Expert*innen ihrer Lebenswelten wahrnehmen und anerkennen. KiTa aktuell, 32 (5),  KiTa BW 10/2023.

Simon, Stephanie/Gormanns, Yvonne/Gramelt, Katja/Koplack, Tatjana/Lochner, Barbara/Prigge, Jessica/Skalska, Agata & Thole, Werner (2023). Kinder als Akteur:innen. Erinnerung an eine fast vergessene Dimension in der Debatte um Qualität von Kindertageseinrichtungen. In: B. Kalicki, K. Blatter, S. Michl, R.Schelle (Hrsg.): Qualität und Qualitätsentwicklung in der frühen Bildung. Forschungsperspektiven der Förderrichtlinie.​Weinheim & Basel: Beltz Juventa.

Skalska, Agata & Gormanns, Yvonne (2023). Die Perspektiven der Kinder in der "Kleinen Rundschau". Korczaks Zeitung für Kinder und Jugendliche von 1926 - 1939. Frühe Bildung, 12 (3), 128-136. (peer-reviewt)

Schäfermeier, Esther/Bremerich, Laurin/Gormanns, Yvonne & Agache, Alexandru (2022). Familienalltag in Zeiten von Corona: Zur Betreuung von Kindern und Stress von Familien. In A. Oommen-Halbach, S. Weyers & M. Griemmert (Hrsg.), Kinder und Jugendliche in der Covid-19-Pandemie. Perspektiven aus Praxis und Wissenschaft (S. 1-15). Düsseldorf: university press.​

Gramelt, Katja & Gormanns, Yvonne (2021). Sich forschend Perspektiven von Kindern nähern. In: Barbara, Lochner, Ina Kaul & Katja Gramelt (Hrsg.): Didaktische Potenziale qualitativer Forschung in der kindheitspädagogischen Lehre (S. 102-131). Beltz Juventa: Weinheim.

Simon, Stephanie/Gormanns, Yvonne/Skalska, Agata/Witton, Tom (2021). Räumliche Arrangements in Kindertageseinrichtungen aus Kindersicht – zwischen Aneignung und Transformation von Räumen. In: Weltzien, Dörte/Wadepohl, Heike/Nentwig-Gesemann, Iris/Gross, Barbara (Hrsg.): Forschung in der Frühpädagogik XIV. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Forschung – Entwicklung – Lehre, S. 81-111.​ (peer-reviewt)

Events and lectures

"This is my school" - children's perspectives on their all-day school

Workshop as part of the "SchulTAG" event at Bildungsforum Rhein-Erft, 23.02.2024


Supporting transfer through participation - Theoretically sound ideas and examples from two transfer projects

Panel contribution with Prof. Dr. Irene Dittrich and Julia Moritz-Schröder from KiTeAro - Institute for Education, Research and Development in Pedagogy, Continuing Education Initiative for Early Education Professionals - WiFF Federal Congress 2023 - From Transfer to Transformation, 14.11.2023


The future of all-day schooling at Düsseldorf elementary school - child surveys

Individual contribution with Prof. Dr. Irene Dittrich, Annual Conference of the DGfE Commission on Primary School Research and Primary School Pedagogy 2023 "Grundschulforschung meets Kindheitsforschung reloaded", University of Siegen, 29.09.2023


Children's perspectives on open all-day schools

Individual contribution with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Deinet as part of the online symposium "Jetzt reden wir - Kinderrechte im Ganztag!" of the Diözesan-Caritasverband für das Erzbistum Köln e.V., 14.09.2023


"This is my school" - children's perspectives on all-day school - a transfer event for children

Organization, implementation and moderation of theevent with 180 children at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences as part of the project "The future of all-day schooling at Düsseldorf elementary school", 16.05.2023


Children's views on all-day school - results from three studies

Individual contribution with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Deinet on behalf of the Institute for Theory and Empiricism of the Social (ITES), Kassel, 21.04.2023


Boundary management from a child's perspective - erecting, crossing, tearing down

Contribution as working group of the paper "Variable boundaries of early childhood spaces. Relevance of theoretical and empirical perspectives on the educational institution of daycare centers", Congress of the German Society for Educational Sciences, University of Bremen, 15.03.2022


Everyday family life in times of Corona - on childcare and family stress

Contribution to the symposium on "Children and young people in the pandemic: problem areas - solution approaches - consolidation", 2nd Düsseldorf Symposium on Children's Rights and Child Protection, Düsseldorf, 24.03.2021

Poster presentations

The future of all-day schooling at Düsseldorf elementary school as part of a poster session at the annual conference of the DGfE Commission on Primary School Research and Primary School Pedagogy 2023 "Grundschulforschung meets Kindheitsforschung reloaded", University of Siegen, 28.09.2023