Andrea Sijp
Research assistant
Wittelsbacherplatz 1, 97074 Würzburg, R. 02.209
Phone: +49 931 31-83189 andrea.sijp@uni-wuerzburg.de
Office hours by arrangement by e-mail.
About the person
Andrea Sijp completed a Master's degree in Special Education (NL: Orthopedagogiek) and Educational Sciences (NL: Onderwijskunde) at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She also studied at the Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, as part of a semester abroad. Since March 2021, she has been working as a research assistant at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, in the field of pedagogy for visual impairments. From March 2019 to March 2025, she gained practical experience as a special needs teacher in various areas of the Berufsförderungswerk Würzburg in Veitshöcheim.
Main areas of research
Her work focuses on orientation and mobility, vocational rehabilitation for people with visual impairments and pedagogy and didactics for people with acquired visual impairments.
Courses
Module: Orientation and mobility (06-B-OMOB-V)
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Orientation and mobility under difficult conditions
Seminar; 2 SWS; winter semester 2022/2023; 23/24; 24/25 and 25/26 -
Practical exercise on orientation and mobility under difficult conditions
Exercise; 1 SWS; winter semester 2022/2023; 23/24; 24/25 and 25/26
Module: Multiple visual impairments (MDVI) (06-B-SEHM-VQ)
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Seeing Plus: Counselling and support for multiple visual impairments
Seminar; 2 SWS; winter semester 2022/2023; 23/24; 24/25 and 25/26 -
Hearing and visual impairments
Exercise; 1 SWS; winter semester 2022/2023; 23/24; 24/25 and 25/26
Module: Impairment-related simulation as a tool for lesson planning (06-B-DEPR-V)
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Didactics of impairment-related simulation
Seminar; 2 SWS; summer semester 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 -
Exposure exercises under the blindfold
Exercise; 1 SWS; winter semester 2021/2022; summer semesters 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
Module: Subject-specific didactics for the visually impaired (06-B-FADI-VQ)
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Specific subject-specific didactics for visually impaired students (NEW)
Seminar; 2 SWS, including units on mathematics and inclusive foreign language teaching; summer semester 2026 -
Specific subject didactics for visually impaired students
Exercise; 1 SWS, including one session on "Inclusive foreign language teaching"; summer semesters 2024 and 2025 -
Acquisition of mathematical competence under difficult conditions
Seminar; 2 SWS, including five sessions; summer semester 2025
Module: Technology in the context of visual impairments (06-B-ASTE-VQ)
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Assistive technology
Seminar; 2 SWS, including one session on the topic of "Smartphones and apps": summer semesters 2025 and 2026
Module: Pedagogical assessment (06-B-PB-V)
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Documentation and argumentation in the context of visual impairment
Seminar; 2 SWS, including one session on "Special educational counselling and support using the example of the Tactual Profile" and one session on "Diagnostics in vocational rehabilitation": summer semester 2025
Module: Introduction to pedagogy for the visually impaired (06-B-EPBS-VQ)
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Braille full script exercise; 1 SWS; winter semester 2023/2024 and 25/26
Module: Introduction to the theory and methodology of science (06-I-WiMe)
- Research in education and special education
Seminar; 1 SWS; summer semester 2021, 2022 and 2023
Free area
- Learning workshop: Materials of maths didactics in the context of education for the visually impaired
Seminar; 1SWS; summer semester 2021
Projects
Lectures and workshops
- "When you lose your way, you get to know it: about visual impairments, orientation and mobility", workshop on 8 November 2023 as part of the first GSiK week at the University of Würzburg: "CommUnity - Intersectional and sustainable perspectives on living together."
- "Die Bedeutung der Orientierung und Mobilität für Menschen mit einer erworbenen Sehbeeinträchtigung", lecture on 31/08/2023 at the XXXVII Congress for Pedagogy of the Blind and Visually Impaired from 31/07/2023 - 04/08/2023 in Marburg an der Lahn.
Publications
Sijp, A. (2024). The importance of orientation and mobility for people with an acquired visual impairment. In Verband für Blinden- und Sehbehindertenpädagogik e.V. (ed.), Life. Education. Participation: (individual - specific - flexible). Congress report. XXXVII (Volume II - Contributions to the thematic volumes and working groups, 1st edition, pp. 462-470). Edition Bentheim. https://doi.org/10.36195/978-3-948837-34-1
Sijp, A. (2022). Diagnostics in vocational rehabilitation for visual impairments. In M. Gebhardt, D. Scheer & M. Schurig (Eds.), Handbuch der sonderpädagogischen Diagnostik. Fundamentals and concepts of status diagnostics, process diagnostics and support planning (pp. 563-580). Regensburg: University Library. https://doi.org/10.5283/epub.53149
Hoogmoed, van, A.H., Kupers, W.E., Sijp, A.V., Vloo, J., Hofstetter, W.H., & Paap, M.C.S. (2019). De globale en lokale betrouwbaarheid van de screeningstoets van de Bareka Profieltoets Rekenen bij kinderen in groep 3 [The global and local reliability of the screening test of the Bareka Profile Test Mathematics in children in group 3]. Pedagogische Studiën, 96(5), 301-311.
Zijlstra, E., de Boer, A., & Sijp, A. (2019). Wat helpt leerlingen met internaliserende problemen op school?: acht praktische adviezen om 'onzichtbare' groep te ondersteunen [What helps pupils with internalising problems at school?: eight practical tips to support the 'invisible' group]. Kind & Adolescent Praktijk, 18(4), 24-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12454-019-0041-x
Sijp, A., de Boer, A., & Zijlstra, E. (2019). Een luisterend oor [An open ear]. Didactief 49(6), 30-31.
Sijp, A.V., Zijlstra, A. E., & De Boer, A.A. (2018). Zie mij: een literatuurstudie naar disclosure en het zoeken van hulp door leerlingen met internaliserende problemen in het primair en voortgezet onderwijs [See me: a literature study on disclosure and help-seeking by pupils* with internalising behaviour problems in primary and secondary school]. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Project number NRO: 405-18-635
Further education and training
- Tactual Profile abbreviated version (Certificate of participation, 08. + 09.04.2024)
- Certificate Higher Education Teaching of the Bavarian Universities - Advanced Level (March, 2023)
Miscellaneous
- Since 03.2021: Member of the scientific advisory board of the Learning and Research Centre (LFS) at the Institute of Special Education at the University of Würzburg
- Member of the working group for the Master's programme "Special Education" at the Institute of Special Education at the University of Würzburg
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