Betül Karakoç-Kafkas

Betül Karakoç-Kafkas holds a degree in teaching at the secondary school level (for mathematics and French) from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. In her final thesis, she dealt with Turkish mosque communities and focused on pedagogical issues related to the community structures and the teachers.

Since 2017, she has been researching and teaching at the Department of Educational Sciences. As part of the qualitative empirical dissertation project, she investigated the gender constructions of female religious representatives ("imamas") in DITIB communities and conducted interviews for this purpose at the theological faculties in Ankara, Istanbul and Konya (Turkey), as well as in different mosque communities in Germany. The interdisciplinary and international perspective, along with a focus on educational science, are the main objectives of her research. This is emphasized in particular by the transnational aspects and the intersection of the research horizons in migration, gender, religion and education that become evident in her research.