Portrait

Following her bachelor's degree at the University of Stuttgart (major in vocational and technical education, minor in linguistics), Janine Michhele completed a consecutive master's degree in educational sciences (focus: vocational and business education) at the Institute for Vocational Education and Adult Education at Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2018. Since then, she has been working here as a research assistant in teaching and projects of the BMBF's quality offensive for teacher training on lateral entry opportunities into the vocational teaching profession (PLan C - Perspektive Lehramt als neue Chance), digitalization in vocational education (Leibniz Works 4.0).

Topic

The influence of health literacy on the professional socialization of young adults with chronic diseases

Health, professional participation and skills development cannot be considered separately in the context of biographical developments. Especially when an individual's health is impaired, it is important to critically reflect on this interdependence. As a trained educational scientist, Janine Michele's research project therefore aims to take an interdisciplinary approach to the interface between public health and vocational education.

About the project

According to the results of the KiGGS wave 2 study, a "good general state of health" is classified as a significant resource for successfully coping with the developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence. A reciprocal view also shows that a change in educational and social structures has a direct impact on the health of children and adolescents. This is particularly evident in young adults who grow up with chronic illnesses throughout their entire biography. Those affected are not only required to deal with their immediate physical and mental impairments, but also to take responsibility for shaping their everyday private, professional and social lives.

This is particularly reflected in school and professional contexts. In order to be able to cope with their own professional socialization as a developmental task, young people with chronic illnesses must not only acquire professional, social and human skills, but also learn to deal with their own health in a reflective manner. The ChEG scholarship will therefore investigate the influence of health literacy on the professional socialization of young adults.

To this end, the conditions for successful professional socialization for people with chronic illnesses will be determined.

Method

Biographical interviews are used to examine whether, how and at what points in the course of a person's professional biography an illness such as epilepsy or type I diabetes mellitus can influence their career and to what extent the health literacy of those affected is related to this. The evaluation is based on the documentary method. The reconstructive approach makes it possible to form types in order to distinguish specific patterns of dealing with chronic diseases in the context of occupational socialization processes.

On this basis, it will ultimately be deduced how health literacy is reflected in young adults with chronic illnesses and how the promotion of health literacy contributes to the successful development of occupational socialization and the strengthening of occupational participation in a type-specific manner.

Publications

Michele J, Gillen J (2024). Enabling health literacy among chronically ill adolescents and young adults in vocational settings: a type-forming approach. Prev Gesundheitsf doi.org/10.1007/s11553-024-01134-y

Bach L, Drixler K, Michele J, Posselt J (2021): DNGK - Research in times of COVID-19. Qualitas - Journal for Quality and Development in Healthcare Facilities, Issue 20, p. 37.

Gillen J, Michele J, Schäfers J, Steuber A, Wende J (2021): Digitalization as an opportunity for diversity-sensitive university teaching in vocational and business education study programmes? In: bwp@ Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik - online, issue 40, pp. 1-22. Online: https://www.bwpat.de/ausgabe40/gillen_etal_bwpat40.pdf

Posselt J, Michele J (2021): Interdisciplinary doctoral program Chronic Disease & Health Literacy. Proceedings of the 6th Austrian Platform for Health Literacy (ÖPGK), Vienna.

Posselt J, Michele J (2021). Chronic diseases and health literacy (ChEG), In: Impulses for Health Promotion; 113 p. 22

Rommel I, Michele J (2020): Educational Guidelines and Didactical Principles in Germans TVET-System: Skilling through Complete Vocational Action. Journal of Engineering, Science & Management Education, Volume-13, Issue I, P. 28-32.

Rommel I, Michele J (2020): From Engineer to TVET-Teacher: The SprintING ("Cross-Entry") Study Program as a Resource for Teacher Shortage. Journal of Engineering, Science & Management Education, Volume 13, Issue I, P. 33-36.

Michele J (2019): Effects of epilepsy on young adults' sense of self-efficacy in a vocational biographical context - risks and side effects from a vocational pedagogical perspective, Journal of Epileptology, Volume 32, Issue 2, P.33.

Lectures

Michele J (2023). Reconstructive research approaches and type-forming work in the context of biographical interviews. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 798 - 798. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770559

Michele J (2022, August): On health literacy promotion in the context of occupational socialization in young adults with chronic diseases. Poster presentation at the Summerschool chronische Erkrankungen und interdisziplinäre Gesundheitskompetenzforschung, Hannover, 01.08.2022.

Michele J, Ahrens S, Keller L, Posselt J (2022): Target group-oriented health literacy promotion among vulnerable groups - a discussion forum. Congress on Poverty and Health 2022, online, 24.03.2022.

Posselt J, Michele J (2021): Interdisciplinary doctoral program Chronic Disease & Health Literacy. 6th Austrian Platform Health Literacy (ÖPGK), Vienna, 12.10.2021

Michele J (2021): "Leibniz works 4.0: Changing Learning and Working Environments in Teacher Education for Vocational Schools", Skills 21 Webinar: "Professional Development of TVET Teachers". Turin, 24.06.2021

Michele J, Dierks M-L, Gillen J (2021): "Health as a neglected diversity dimension in schools - Chronic illness in the context of educational equity". Future Educational Opportunities, Center for Teacher Education, University of Cologne, 16.09.2021

Michele J, Schäfers S (2021): Diversity-sensitive design of the introductory phase of studies through digital teaching-learning formats with the learning management system ILIAS. 6th Hildesheim CeLeB conference on educational research, Hildesheim, 26-27.11.2021

Michele J, Schäfers J, Wilhelms F (2021): Digital learning platforms as potential for target group-oriented design of teaching-learning spaces (Session A). Forum: "Building and sustainably promoting digitization-related competences", 1st online symposium "Digitization in the education of teachers", University of Bremen, 04-05.11.2021

Michele J (2019): "Competence orientation and vocational learning situations" as part of the study day of the vocational school Koblenz, 06.03.2019

Michele J (2019): Effects of epilepsy on the sense of self-efficacy of young adults in a vocational biographical context - risks and side effects from a vocational pedagogical perspective, poster presentation, 11th Joint Annual Conference of the German and Austrian Society for Epileptology and the Swiss Epilepsy League, Basel, 09.05.2019

Michele J (2019): "Effects of chronic diseases using the example of epilepsy on the self-efficacy concept of young adults in a professional biographical context - risks and side effects from a vocational pedagogical perspective" DGfE Conference Section Differential Educational Research. "Thematizing diversity - shaping similarities and differences" University of Hamburg. 19.09.2019