Profession and Activity
In 1972 Barbara Kochan was appointed to a chair for primary education at the Pedagogical College of Berlin. Since then she teaches and researches in the special field of primary school and nursery school children's language learning and its promotion by teaching, since 1980 at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1986 there she established the computer-enriched "Children's Writing-Workshop", which in 1998 was renamed in "Computer-based Learning Workshop" (CLW) - up to now in Germany a nationwide unique institution for educational research as well as for teacher education. Kochan's academic papers about learning and teaching to write by using the computer are well-known outside the German-speaking areas. Also the research-based educational software she developed in overall charge of the didactics is internationally known. At present several countries are interested in the adaption and implementation of the educational initiative "Smart Mice - children explore language" (German: "Schlaumäuse - Kinder entdecken Sprache") which Kochan together with her research assistant Elke Schröter developed for the nursery school.
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