Vita
1950 |
born |
1968 |
Abitur (High school diploma) |
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Following high school, journalism traineeship with the NRZ (Neue Rhein/Ruhr-Zeitung) newspaper in Essen |
bis 1974 |
Co-owner of advertising agency in Dusseldorf until 1974 |
1974 bis 1978 |
Studied to become a teacher in secondary education (Rheinland Teachers? College und University of Dusseldorf) with concentrations in German as a second language and English |
1978 bis 1980 |
Mandatory internship in a Dusseldorf school (Second State Examination 1980) |
1980 bis 1982 |
Diploma of Education Programme at the University of Essen (Diploma of Education 1982) |
1987 |
Doctorate, Dr. Phil. in Hamburg with the thesis Educational Goal: Bilingualism. Contours of a Language Teaching Concept for Multicultural Schools? |
1991 |
Habilitation. Title of postdoctoral thesis: The Monolingual Habitus of the Multilingual School |
1994 bis 1998 |
1994 to 1998: Member of the executive board of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (German Society of Educational Science); 1998 to 2002: President of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (German Society of Educational Science) |
2004 bis 2009 |
President of the European Educational Research Association EERA |
2009 bis 2010 |
President of the World Education Research Association (WERA); 2010 to 2012: Immediate Past President of WERA |
2013 |
Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h.c.) awarded by the Technological University of Dortmund, Germany. |
since 2013 |
Member of the Kompetenzzentrum Nachhaltige Universität KNU der Universität Hamburg |
2016 bis 2018 |
President-Elect of the World Education Research Association (WERA) |
2016 bis 2019 |
DFG Review Board member German Research Foundation - DFG |
2017 |
Honorary doctorate (Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.) awarded by the National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens |
2018 bis 2020 |
President of the World Education Research Association (WERA) |
2020 bis 2022 |
'Immediate Past President' World Education Research Association (WERA) |
Since 2021 |
Speaker of the Faculty Research Center "Literacy in Diversity Settings (LiDS)" (with Prof. Dr. Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber) |