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Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology
assistant lecturer with fixed-term contract

Dr. Alyssa Laureen Grecu

Main research topics

  • Educational trajectories
  • Educational inequalities
  • Learning in formal and non-formal educational settings
  • School Alienation
  • Mixed-Methods-Research

Sprechzeiten

by apointment

Academic background

  • 2019: PhD in Sociology, University of Luxembourg
  • 2015: M.A:, Conflict Studies, Augsburg University
  • 2011: B.A. Social Sciences, Justus Liebig University Gießen

Professional background

  • Currently working in the project “The German Educational Panel Study (NEPS)- Stage 4” at the IFS
  • Since 09/2020 assistant lecturer with fixed-term contract at the IFS
  • 09/2019-08/2020 Research assistant  (Postdoc) at the Institute of Education and Society, University of Luxembourg
  • 09/2015-08/2019 Research assistant  (PhD) at the Institute of Education and Society, University of Luxembourg

Vita

Further Information

Current Projects:

  • National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), project duration: since 01.01.2009

Past projects:

  • Pädagogisches Personal in Einrichtungen der non-formalen Bildung in Luxemburg (PerSEALux)
  • Schulentfremdung in der Schweiz und in Luxemburg (SASAL)
  • Hadjar, A., Grecu, A., Scharf, J., de Moll, F., Morinaj, T. & Hascher, T. (2021). Changes in school alienation profiles among secondary school students and the role of teaching style: Results from a longitudinal study in Luxembourg and Switzerland. International Journal of Educational Research, 105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101697
  • Grecu, A. (2020). Die Entwicklung der Entfremdung vom Lernen in der unteren Sekundarstufe in Luxemburg: Der Beitrag differenzieller schulischer Lern- und Entwicklungsmilieus. Beltz Juventa.
  • Grecu, A., Hascher, T. & Hadjar, A. (2019). Teachers’ images of the ideal student as a marker for school culture and its role for school alienation during the transition from primary to secondary education in Luxembourg. Studia paedagogica, 24(2), 85-108. https://doi.org/10.5817/SP2019-2-4
  • Scharf, J., Hadjar, A. & Grecu, A. (2019). Applying social production function theory to benefits of schooling: the concept of values of education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(7), 847-867. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1604207
  • Morinaj, J., Scharf, J., Grecu, A., Hadjar, A., Hascher, T. & Marcin, K. (2017). School Alienation. A Construct Validation Study. Frontline Learning Research, 5(2), 36-59. https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v5i2.298
  • Grecu, A., de Moll, F. & Hadjar, A. (2020, March). Eine Typologie des schulbezogenen Habitus von Schülerinnen und Schülern an luxemburgischen Sekundarschulen zur quantitativen Analyse von Ungleichheiten. Präsentation auf der DGS – Sektionstagung „Bildung und soziale Ungleichheit", Bamberg, Germany.
  • Grecu, A. & de Moll, F. (2020, March). Bildungsforschung als Habitusforschung? Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie zum Schülerhabitus in Luxemburg. Präsentation auf der GEBF, Potsdam, Germany.
  • Grecu, A. & Hadjar, A. (2019, September). Classroom Climate and School Alienation in Primary Schools in Luxembourg: The Role of Teaching Styles and Teacher-Student Relationship. Präsentation auf der ECER, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Grecu, A. & Hadjar, A. (2019, August). Classroom Climate and School Alienation in Primary Schools in Luxembourg: The Role of Teaching Styles and Teacher-Student Relationship. Präsentation auf der ESA, Manchester, Great Britain.
  • Grecu, A., Hadjar, A. & Scharf, J. (2018, July). How Classroom Composition Impacts Alienation from Learning Among Different Student Groups: A Study of Secondary Schools in Luxembourg and the Swiss Canton of Berne. Präsentation auf dem ISA World Congess of Sociology, Toronto, Canada.