CENTRE FOR INTERCULTURAL AND TRANSNATIONAL RESEARCH
IN HISTORY DIDACTICS, SOCIAL STUDIES AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (CITRA)

Education, Career and Institutional Responsibilities

  • since 2018: Initiator, Coordinator und Leader of the Graz Conference 2020
  • since 2017: Chair of the Department of Didactics of History, Soicial Studies and Citizenship Education, University of Graz
  • since 2015: Advisory professor at the Research Center for Comparative History Education, History Department, Faculty of History, ECNU Shanghai, China (since 2018: Honorary Professor)
  • 2013–2016: Member of the Curricular Working Group 'Teacher Training at the University of Vienna'
  • 2009–2013:  Coordinator and speaker of the interdisciplinary research platform 'Theory and practice of subject didactics' (21 subject studies of 12 faculties), University of Vienna
  • since 2007:  Speaker of the research program: 'Teacher Training and Specialized Didactics' and 'Specialized Didactics of History, Social Studies and Political Education', Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
  • 2007–2017: Chair of the Department "Didactics of History, Social Studies and Citizenship Education!, University of Vienna 
  • 2006–2010: Vice study program director for history
  • since 2001: Professor of Social History and Didactics of History at the University of Vienna 
  • 2001–2004: Koordination des Organisationsentwicklungsprojektes 'Entwicklung der Fachdidaktiken an der Universität Wien'
  • 2001–2004: Chief-Coordinator for the establishment and management of the Centre for Teaching Development at the University of Vienna and Coordinator of the development of a strategy for the implementation of digital media in teaching programs and for the reorganisation of teacher training courses at the University of Vienna
  • 2000–2004:  Chairman of the Teaching Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Study Commission for Teacher Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna
  • since 1994: Member of the Advisory board and expert group at the Council of Europe for the development of history courses  (development of curricula, initial teacher training, in-service-teacher training, textbook-research)
  • 1993-2008: Scientific Leader of the program for human resources development 'Die Kunst der Lehre" - Didaktik für Hochschullehrer/innen an der Universität Wien', University of Vienna (prior 'Modelllehrgang zur didaktischen Weiterbildung für Hochschullehrer/innen an der Universität Wien')
  • 1986-2008: Member of the scientific staff of the university training course "Civic and Citizenship Education for secondary school teachers", University of Klagenfurt and Krems

Studies in Group Pedagogy (Vienna, AT), Psychoanalysis (Vienna, AT), Group dynamics (Vienna and Hernstein, AT), Group analysis (Vienna, AT and Institute of Group Analysis, London, GB), Ethnopsychoanalysis (Zürich, CH); Systemic consulting of organisations (Vienna, AT and Heidelberg, DE)

Supervisor of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

  • Currently supervisor of 4 postdoctoral thesis (Habilitationen), 7 doctoral thesis (PhD)
  • Supervisor of about 140 master thesis and 'diploma thesis' at the Universities of Vienna, Graz and at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Innsbruck and Krems
  • Founding member of the Doctoral Program for Didactics of History, Social Studies and Citizenship Education
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Postdoctoral Forum at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Graz
Postdoctoral Thesis (Habilitation)
  • 2020–2024 Egbert Bernauer: 'Die Höheren Schulen in Linz und die politische Einstellung ihrer Lehrer von 1900 bis 1945', University College of Teacher Education Linz/University of Graz
  • 2019–2023 Bettina Paireder: 'Professionalisierung von Geschichtslehrerinnen und -lehrern im 21. Jh. im europäischen Vergleich. Prozessorientierte Lerndesigns in der universitären Ausbildung von Geschichtslehrerinnen und - lehrern', University of Graz/University of Vienna
  • 2017–2021 Georg Marschnig: 'Perspektivität im Geschichtsunterricht', University of Graz
  • 2013 Thomas Hellmut: 'Historisch-politische Sinnbildung. Anmerkungen zur Modifikation des Mündigkeitsbegriffs', University of Salzburg/University of Vienna
Doctoral Thesis (PhD-Thesis, Dissertation)
  • 2020 – Thomas Haase: 'Die Agrarpädagogische Bildung in Österreich', University of Vienna
  • 2019–2022 Elisabeth Unger: 'eLearning im Geschichtsunterricht der Sekundarstufe I. Konzepte, Modelle, Theorien'
  • 2019 – Ursula Oedl: ' Demokratie- und Politikvorstellungen von Schüler/innen im ersten Jahr des Unterrichtsfaches GSP in der Sekundarstufe I', Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
  • 2018 – Helga Franz-Haase: 'Kernkraftwerk Zwentendorf - Investitonsruine oder Industriemuseum? Konzepte zur Musealisierung'
  • 2017–2021 – Johannes Brzobohaty: 'Schriftliche Leistungsfeststellungen in Geschichte und Sozialkunde/Politische Bildung. Eine empirische Annäherung', Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
  • 2017–2021 Jeanine Mittelmayer: 'Belletristik als kulturhistorische Quelle? Methodische und fachdidaktische Fragen für den kompetenzorientierten GSP-Unterricht', Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
  • 2017 – Bettina Paireder: 'Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Schulgeschichtsbuchs für einen kompetenzorientierten Geschichtsunterricht' Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

Lectures

Lecturer and Course Leader of more than 300 university lectures and courses for social history and didactics of history, social studies and civic education at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt, as well at the Danube University of Krems, the University College of Teacher Education Linz and at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Main topics:

  • theory of history didactics (historical consciousness, historical thinking, process-oriented history didactics, competency-based history didactics, first and second order concepts, observing, planning and evaluating history courses, self-reflexion, professional profiles of history teachers etc.)
  • digital media in history education (media didactics, digital media and the influence on historical consciousness, film analysis etc.)
  • learning in the museum (in cooperation with national museums and archives in Austria)
  • oral history
  • intercultural learning
  • social history (family, childhood, gender, education, labor, youth culture, festive culture, history of culture and everyday life etc.)
  • world history (India, Latin-America, China, colonialism, imperialism, industrialization, anti-apartheid-movement etc.)