LAKTAT - Laypeople as actors in all-day schooling. Quantitative assessment at the socio-spatial level (Sub-study A)

Research on the overall situation of educational laypersons, their integration into the school organization, and their educational orientations is still sorely lacking. The overarching aim of the LAKTAT research project is to analyze the relevance of lay educators at all-day schools, their organizational integration, and their pedagogical orientations, and to formulate the initial elements of an exploratory theory on the “layification of all-day schools.” Not only because of the shortage of skilled workers, the question of qualification in this area must be raised, reflected upon empirically, and further addressed in educational and professional policy discourses.

The research project was carried out using a mixed-methods design, which combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods and has been described in detail by Danner et al. (2023). There are three sub-studies focusing on the levels of system (A), organization (B), and actors (C). The data was collected in three different local authorities in Lower Saxony (two districts, one large city).

Substudy A focused on taking stock of the teaching staff at all-day schools. An online questionnaire was used to collect current and comprehensive data on the situation of teaching staff. The aim was, on the one hand, to create a systematic overview of professionalization in the all-day school sector.

On the other hand, this preliminary survey also had a practical research function, in that the results of the latent profile analysis of the quantitative data provided a basis for the informed selection of qualitative case studies in sub-studies B and C. The qualitative transcribed interviews and network maps from sub-studies B and C are available from the FDZ Bildung at the DIPF – Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, but cannot be linked to the quantitative data on an individual level.

Access to the qualitative data is granted upon request to the FDZ Bildung (see also further information).