Dr Steffen Hamborg
Dr Steffen Hamborg
Steffen Hamborg holds the professorship for General Education at the University of Oldenburg. He researches and teaches the foundations, history(s) and theories of pedagogy, educational policy, questions of socialisation and subjectivation from an educational science perspective as well as theories of science in educational science. His particular interests lie in the field of pedagogical utopia, nature and crisis relations as well as educational science readings of post-structuralist, feminist and post-colonial thought movements.
Further functions:
- Management of the study programme committee of the pedagogy cluster
- Coordination of the curriculum planning of the Pedagogy cluster
Curriculum Vitae
Educational biography
| 2017 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2005 - 2011 | Studied educational science, sociology and peace and conflict research at the Philipps University of Marburg |
| 2004 | General higher education entrance qualification at the Fachgymnasium Wirtschaft of the Berufsbildende Schulen I in Uelzen |
Professional activities
| since 05/2026 | Administration of the professorship for General Education at the University of Oldenburg |
| since 10/2022 | Management of the study programme committee of the Pedagogy Cluster at the University of Oldenburg |
| 04/2022 - 04/2026 | Teaching staff for special tasks at the Department of General Education (Prof. Dr Yvonne Ehrenspeck-Kolasa) at the University of Oldenburg |
| 10/2024 - 03/2025 | Lecturer in the "Kontaktstudium: Pädagogische Kompetenz in der Migrationsgesellschaft" (co-operation project of Carl von Ossietzky University and Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.) at the Bremen (effect gGmbH) and Hanover (kargah e.V.) locations |
| 04/2019 - 03/2023 | Scientific coordination of the joint project "Transformation through community. Processes of collective subjectivation in the context of sustainable development (TransGem)" (funding: VW Foundation and NMWK) under the direction of Prof Dr Thorsten Raabe |
| 04/2020 - 09/2020 | Lecturer at the University of Hamburg in the Master's programme "Education and Educational Science" |
| 08/2015 - 03/2019 | Research assistant in the joint project "Resilience of socio-technical systems exemplified at the electricity transport and actor system" (funding: VW Foundation and NMWK) under the direction of Prof. Dr Thorsten Raabe |
| 04/2014 - 03/2016 | Lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin in the Master's programme "Network Management Education for Sustainable Development - Focus on Childhood Education" |
| 04/2015 - 07/2015 | Research assistant at the Department of General Educational Science(Prof. Dr Inka Bormann) at Freie Universität Berlin |
| 12/2011 - 03/2015 | Scientific coordination of the BMBF-funded project "Reconstruction of governance regimes of ESD transfer" under the direction of Prof. Dr Inka Bormann, until 03/2014 at Philipps University Marburg, from 04/2014 at Freie Universität Berlin |
| 10/2010 - 01/2012 | Assistance to the internal commission for the reaccreditation of the degree programmes B.A. and M.A. "Educational Science" at the Institute of Educational Science at the Philipps University Marburg |
| 04/2011 - 09/2011 | Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Centre for Conflict Research - FB 03) and at the chair of Prof. Dr Susanne Maria Weber (Institute for Educational Science - FB 21) at the Philipps University of Marburg |
| 04/2009 - 03/2011 | Various tutorials and assistant activities at the Centre for Conflict Research (FB 03) and at the Institute for Educational Science (FB 21) at the Philipps University of Marburg |
| 04/2009 - 09/2010 | Research internship at the Institute for Sociology (Department 03) of the Philipps University Marburg under the supervision of Prof Dr Mathias Bös |
| 2004 - 2005 | Community service in the day care centre of Lebenshilfe gGmbH Uelzen (area of work: curative education kindergarten) |
Publications
Hamborg, S. (2024): Review of: Binder, U./ Krönig, F. K. (eds.): Paradoxes (in) pedagogy. Weinheim: Beltz 2021. EWR, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Published on 14 August 2024), http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978377996488.html
Hamborg, S. (2024): Generativity as a topos of pedagogical utopia, nature and crisis relations. Or: When old hopes blossom anew. In: Brinkmann, M./Weiss, G./Rieger-Ladich, M. (eds.): Generation and transmission. Education and training between heritage and future. Weinheim: Beltz, pp. 187-202.
Hamborg, S. (2023): Too much of a good thing. Proclamations and realities of education in the mirror of sustainability and transformation. DDS - Die Deutsche Schule, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 153-161. doi.org/10.31244/dds.2023.02.10
Hamborg, S. (2022): "Know your Lifestyle" - On the theory and empiricism of subject appeals in the context of sustainable consumption. In: Bosančić, S./Keller, R. (eds.): Discourses, dispositives and subjectivities. Fields of application and possible connections in sociological discourse research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 91-116. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31557-3_6
Hamborg, S. (2022): Education. Crisis. War. In: Wissenschaftsblog des Wissenschaftlichen Zentrums Genealogie der Gegenwart, 11.03.2022, available at: https: //uol.de/wizegg/blog/bildung-krise-krieg
Hamborg, S., Rakebrand, J. & Schmeiduch, L. (2021): The allure of the niche. Longings, ambivalences and social self-problematisation. In: Zeitpolitisches Magazin, Vol. 18, Issue 39 (December), 24-26. available at: https://zeitpolitik.org/zeitpolitikmagazin
Alkemeyer, T., Buschmann, N., Hamborg, S. & Sulmowski, J. (2021): Cosmology of the toilet. On the imaginary of a sustainable way of life. In: Sociology and Sustainability, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 70-89. doi.org/10.17879/sun-2021-3637
Alkemeyer, T., Buschmann, N., Hamborg, S. & Sulmowski, J. (2021): The imaginary of practice. Collective subjectivation in the context of sustainable development. In: Blättel-Mink, B. (ed.): Society under tension. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020.
Open Access: publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2020/article/view/1345.
Hamborg, S. (2020): Education in the crisis. A critique of crisis-diagnostic educational concepts using the example of education for sustainable development. In: Kminek, H., Bank, F. and Fuchs, L. (eds.): Controversial togetherness. Interdisciplinary and controversial positions on education for sustainable development (Frankfurter Beiträge für Erziehungswissenschaft). Frankfurt am Main: Goethe University, pp. 169-184.
Hamborg, S. (2020): How to talk about 'Education for Sustainable Development'? An essay on the discomfort of purposeful education in the name of the good. In: Eicker, J., Eis, A., Holfelder, A-K., Jacobs, S., Yume, S., Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (eds.): Bildung Macht Zukunft. Learning for the socio-ecological transformation? Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag, pp. 167-172.
Hamborg, S., Meya, J. N., Eisenack, K. & Raabe, T. (2020): Rethinking resilience: A cross-epistemic resilience framework for interdisciplinary energy research. In: Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 59, January 2020, 101285. open access : doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101285
Birkner, S., Hamborg, S. & Hochmann, L. (2019): (Un)Doing Entrepreneurial Diversity. A Shift from Being to Doing. RENT Conference Papers 2019.
Hamborg, S. (2019): Political Education and Critical Attitude in the Growth Society. On the conditionality of working towards a better society within the existing one. In: Free Association, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 58-62.
Hamborg, S. (2019): On the Political of the Possible. Sketches of a political philosophy of contingency-conscious science. In: Hochmann, L., Graupe, S., Korbun, T., Panther, S. & Schneidewind, U. (eds.): Möglichkeitswissenschaften. Economics with a sense of possibility. Marburg: Metropolis, pp. 89-109.
Hamborg, S. (2018): Things, objects and discourses. On the Material in Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge. In: Poferl, A. & Pfadenhauer, M. (eds.): Wissensrelationen. Contributions and Debates at the 2nd Section Congress on the Sociology of Knowledge. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 229-240.
Hamborg, S. (2018): Local educational landscapes on course for sustainability. Education for sustainable development in municipal policy discourse. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
[Review by Lars Hochmann, ZEP 4/2018]
Hamborg, S. (2017): 'Where there is light, there is also shadow' - Critical perspectives on education for sustainable development and ESD research in German-speaking countries. In: Brodowski, M. (ed.): Education for Sustainable Development. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Berlin: Logos, pp. 15-31.
Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.)(2016): Governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Bormann, I. & Hamborg, S. (2016): Sociological discourse analysis of knowledge: Reconstruction of social knowledge relations. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance Regimes of the Transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 89-107.
Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (2016): Selected methods from the spectrum of reconstructive methods of social research and their significance for analysing governance and transfer in the multi-level system. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 45-47.
Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (2016): Introduction. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance Regimes of the Transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 3-6.
Bormann, I., Heinrich, M., Hamborg, S., Lambrecht, M., Nikel, J., Haker, C., Brüsemeister, T. (2016): Governance of transfer processes in the multi-level system - subject-related and methodological considerations. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 7-41.
Hamborg, S. (2016): Local actor constellations of ESD transfer: Municipal governance as a discursive unit of knowledge, positions and practices. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 219-243.
Hamborg, S., Bormann, I., Heinrich, M. (2016): Results of research on the principles and patterns of transfer of Education for Sustainable Development at the level of Länder and municipalities. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 147-150.
Heinrich, M., Bormann, I., Hamborg, S., Lambrecht, M., Nikel, J., Haker, C., Brüsemeister, T. (2016): Reconstructing governance regimes of the transfer of Education for Sustainable Development. In: Bormann, I., Hamborg, S. & Heinrich, M. (eds.): Governance regimes of the transfer of education for sustainable development. Qualitative reconstructions. Educational Governance series. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 289-341.
Bormann, I. & Hamborg, S. (2015): Transfer and institutionalisation in education. Insights into a governance-analytical triangulation study. In: H. J. Abs, T. Brüsemeister, M. Schemmann & J. Wissinger (Eds.): Governance in the education system. Analyses of the multi-level perspective, steering and coordination. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 291-314.
Hamborg, S. (2015): Institutionalisation of educational concepts at municipal level in the mirror of different problem perceptions. Learning module Module 2 for the certificate course "Governance of local education - local educational processes in reflexive change". Justus Liebig University Giessen.
Bormann, I. & Hamborg, S. (2014): Education for sustainable development in discourse. In: PädagogikUNTERRICHT, vol. 34, issue 2/3, pp. 5-6.
Lectures, specialist events, workshops
Lectures
2024
Contemplative Absence of Contemplation – The Surface and the Abyss of Good Pedagogical Intentions. Lecture as part of the ‘Sustainability’ series of lectures, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 19 December 2024.
Whose Education? Positions and Perspectives on Addressing Major Social Issues in School and Teacher Education. Lecture at the research workshop “Marburg Transversal Teaching — Cross-cutting Themes in Teacher Education”, Philipps University of Marburg, 28–29 November 2024.
Water as a Public Matter – Water Literacy. Panellist at the closing panel of the “Water Literacy” symposium as part of the Volkswagen Foundation’s “Water between Extremes” theme week, Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover, 9–11 October 2024.
2023
On the Sense and Nonsense of Education for Sustainable Development – Historical and Systematic Considerations. Keynote address at the autumn conference of the ‘Mathematics and Education’ working group: ‘ESD from the perspective of mathematical education – Mathematical education from the perspective of ESD’, RWTH Aachen University, 10 November 2023.
Too Much of a Good Thing? Proclamations and Realities of Education in the Context of Sustainability and Transformation. Lecture in the “ESD Snack” series organised by the Centre for Teacher Education – Didactic Centre (DiZ), University of Oldenburg, 31 May 2023.
The Sense and Nonsense of Education for Sustainable Development – Historical and Systematic Considerations. Lecture at the Education Research Forum of the Centre for Teacher Education and Education Research (CeLeB), University of Hildesheim Foundation, 17 May 2023.
Too Much of a Good Thing? Proclamations and Realities of Education in the Context of Sustainability and Transformation. Keynote address at the meeting of the networking initiative “Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Training”, University of Hildesheim Foundation, 20 January 2023.
2022
Reconstructing pedagogical crisis situations. On late-modern hopes for education in the climate crisis. Presentation on the panel “Resonances of Adult Education in Response to the Climate Crisis” (with Jörg Dinkelaker, Martin Haselwanter and Maria Stimm) at the annual conference of the DGfE Adult Education Section, European University of Flensburg, 14–16 September 2022.
Education – Change – Utopia. On old and new visions of higher education for humanity. Lecture in the “Blickwinkel” series (auditors/general studies) within the “Open University” programme, University of Oldenburg, 21 July 2022.
Social Movements as Reflected in the Deconstruction of Boundaries in Educational Science. Historical and systematic explorations using the example of eco-villages. Presentation at the symposium “The Pedagogical Dimension of Social Movements: Questions of Educational Boundary-Crossing in Perspective and Object” (Steffen Hamborg and Benjamin Bunk) at the 28th Congress of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE) “Ent|Grenz|Ungen”, University of Bremen (online), 13–16 March 2022.
Education – Power – Transformation. On the relevance and challenges of proposals for the higher education of humanity. Keynote address at the early-career researchers’ conference ‘Social Transformation and Political Education’ organised by the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE), University of Hildesheim Foundation (online), 4 March 2022.
Learning in education projects critical of economic growth. Panellist at the Aachen Education Talks, RWTH Aachen (online), 19 January 2022.
2021
Education in the (post-)growth society. Evening lecture as part of the Aachen Education Talks, RWTH Aachen (online), 8 December 2021.
Showing that there is another way. The niche and pedagogy. Presentation at the online conference “The Appeal of the Niche – Time.Spaces of Sustainability” organised by the joint project “Transformation through Community – Processes of Collective Subjectivation in the Context of Sustainable Development”, University of Oldenburg (online), 18–20 November 2021.
Generativity as a topos of pedagogical utopia, nature and crisis relations. Presentation at the annual conference of the Commission for the Philosophy of Education of the German Society for Educational Science, Humboldt University of Berlin (online), 15–17 September 2021.
Institutionalisations of the Pedagogical in socio-ecological transformation movements. Empirical contextualisations and reconstructions of the contemporary era. Presentation at the annual conference of the Commission for Qualitative Education and Biographical Research of the German Society for Educational Science, Bielefeld University (online), 15–17 September 2021.
Showing that there is another way. Transformative Communities as Late Modern Institutings of the Pedagogical. Presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Geneva (Switzerland) (online), 6–10 September 2021.
2020
‘Showing that there is another way’ – Transformative communities as late-modern institutings of the pedagogical. Presentation at the conference of the ‘Education and Social Movements’ working group, Rauischholzhausen (online), 20–21 November 2020.
“Showing that there is another way” – Transformative Communities as pedagogic institutions of late modernity. Presentation at the 25th DiscourseNet Conference ‘Global Dispositives. Infrastructures and Discursive Imaginaries of Geopolitical Realities’, Tyumen University (Russia) (online), 12–13 November 2020.
The Imaginary of Practice. Collective Subjectivation in the Context of Sustainable Development (with Thomas Alkemeyer, Nikolaus Buschmann and Jędrzej Sulmowski). Presentation as part of the session organised by the Sociological Theory Section ‘Collective Identities: Sociological Theory, Analysis, Critique’ (Heike Delitz, Jasmin Siri, Robert Seyfert) at the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association, Technical University of Berlin (online), 14–25 September 2020.
Optimisation as the Absence of the Political and Pedagogical in Social Movements. Presentation as part of the symposium ‘Change – Optimisation – Normativity. Or: What might be learnt in this regard from and within social movements?’ (Benjamin Bunk and Susanne Maurer) at the 27th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) ‘Optimisation’, University of Cologne, 15–18 March 2020.
[Event cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic]
Political education in a growth-oriented society. Systemic constraints and critique of ideology. Presentation as part of the research forum ‘The Shadows Cast by Political Education’ (Steffen Hamborg, Michael Brandmayr, May Jehle, Helge Kminek) at the 27th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) ‘Optimisation’, University of Cologne, 15–18 March 2020.
[Event cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic]
2019
Ontological and methodological remarks on the SKAD perspective (with Saša Bosančić). Presentation at the 3rd DiscourseNet Congress “Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World”, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Gennevilliers (France), 11–14 September 2019
Resilience research beyond resilience thinking. Power, knowledge, and human reality. Lecture as part of a series of lectures “Resilient energy systems”, University of Oldenburg, 11 June 2019
Sustainable consumption. The politicisation of everyday life between empowerment and discipline. Presentation at the conference “The Discursive Construction of Reality IV”, University of Augsburg, 21–22 March 2019
Qualitative Resilience Research as Disruptive Action. Strategies of Politicisation in Critical Qualitative Inquiry. Presentation at the 3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI) “Qualitative Inquiry as Activism”, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 13–15 February 2019
What are the opportunities, limitations and prospects for education for sustainable development? Participation in the closing panel of the series of lectures “Education for Sustainable Development”, Winter Semester 2018/19, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 11 February 2019
2018
Education for Sustainable Development in local educational landscapes. Conditions – Challenges – Ambivalences. Presentation at the network meeting “BieNE 4: From Action to Educational Landscape” organised by the Brandenburg State Working Group for Political and Cultural Education, Klimawerkstatt Werder (Havel), 30 November 2018
Sustainable Consumption. The politicisation of everyday life between grassroots activism and governmental technology. Presentation at the Discoursnet 22 Conference “Discourse, Power, Subjectivation”, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 12–14 September 2018
Education and Subjectivation in Buyers’ Markets. Towards the Governmentality of Marketing. Presentation at the 14th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) “Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 16–19 May 2018
Inquiring Resilience. How Critical Scholars Engage with Neo-liberal Power/Knowledge in Troubled Times. Presentation at the 14th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) “Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 16–19 May 2018
Self-formation through activism. Sketches of a theory of subjectivation in social movements. Presentation at the 26th Congress of the DGfE in Essen, 19–21 March 2018
2017
Awarded. Reconstructions of awards as a steering instrument in the education sector (with Maike Lambrecht). Presentation at the conference of the “Empirical Educational Research” section, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 25–27 September 2017
Materialities in Discourse. Systematic Reflections on Discourse Analysis in the Light of Neo-Materialist Critique. Presentation at the 2nd Section Congress of the Section for the Sociology of Knowledge ‘Knowledge Relations’ Working Group on Discourse Research – ‘Discourse Relations between Materiality, Emotions and (Un)sayability’, TU Dortmund, 21–23 September 2017
Towards the Formation of Objects in Discourse Research. Contributions from a Reflexive Meta-Analysis. Presentation at the Discoursnet 19 Conference “Discourse, Knowledge and Practice in Society”, University of Bucharest (Romania), 7–8 July 2017
The Multiple Resiliences of Electricity Systems. Discourse Perspectives on Anticipatory System Design in the Field of Public Power Supply. Presentation at the 13th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) “Qualitative Inquiry in Public Spheres”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 17–20 May 2017
Concept, Phenomenon or Objectifiable Property? Methodological Reflections on the Constitution of the Object of Study in Discourse Research,Using Resilience as an Example. Presentation at the conference “The Discursive Construction of Reality III” in Augsburg, 23–24 March 2017
Notion, Phenomenon, or Objectifiable Property? A Reflexive Meta-Analysis of Discourse Research on Resilience. Presentation at the 1st European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Leuven (Belgium), 7–10 February 2017
Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems: An Example from the Electricity Transport and Actor System (with Ulrike Feudel, Klaus Eisenack, Joachim Peinke, Thorsten Raabe, Hauke Hähne, Jasper N. Meya and Sarah Schönmakers). Presentation at the ‘Science for Sustainable Development’ status symposium in Hanover, 23–24 January 2017
2016
‘Stepping out of the sandbox’ – Reflections from the practice of research-based teaching with cooperation partners in the field of local authority marketing (with Petra Strohmann and Thorsten Raabe). Presentation at the ‘Conference on Research-Based Teaching and Learning’, University of Oldenburg, 5–6 June 2016
SKAD, Resilience, and the Transformation of Energy Systems towards Renewables. Presentation as part of the session “Analyzing Discourse and Foucauldian Regimes of Power/Knowledge with the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse and related perspectives” at the 12th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) “Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 18–21 May 2016
Local Education Landscapes on the Path to Sustainability – On the Governance of Local Spaces for Education within the Framework of the UN Decade of ‘Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)’. Presentation in Thematic Forum 2 “Globalisation at the Centre of Learning” at the 25th Congress of the DGfE in Kassel, 13–16 March 2016
2015
Discourse analysis as a method and perspective in transdisciplinary resilience research. Presentation ‘ ’ at the 12th meeting of the Network for Sociological Discourse Analysis at the Free University of Berlin, 5–6 December 2015
Where there is light, there is also shadow. Critical perspectives on ESD using the example of the ‘Decade Municipalities’ award. Presentation at the early-career researchers’ conference ‘Education for Sustainable Development – Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives’ at the Free University of Berlin, 16–17 October 2015
How Meaning, Positions and Actions Come Together – Constellations of Actors as a Unit of Analysis from a SKAD Perspective. Presentation as part of the session “Analyzing Discourse and Regimes of Power-Knowledge Using SKAD” at the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 20–23 May 2015 [funded by a DAAD travel grant]
Expert interviews as material for a comparative discourse analysis in local education policy contexts. Presentation in the stream “Methodology & Methods of Discourse Research I” at the conference organised by the University of Augsburg with the support of the Sociology of Knowledge Section and the Discourse Research Working Group: ‘The Discursive Construction of Reality II. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sociology of Knowledge Discourse Research’ in Augsburg, 26–27 March 2015
2014
Organising change? – On the relationship between actors and structures in the context of the transfer of ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ in local contexts (with Inka Bormann). Presentation at the symposium “Criticism without reform? On attempts to organise education for sustainable development as institutional change” (Inka Bormann, Thomas Brüsemeister, Martin Heinrich and Jutta Nikel) at the autumn conference of the Commission on Educational Organisation, Planning and Law (KBBB), Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 1–2 October 2014.
Institutionalisation of Education for Sustainable Development – on the paradox of bottom-up transfer in the context of top-down implemented strategies (with Inka Bormann, Maike Lambrecht and Martin Heinrich). Presentation at the symposium ‘Challenging ESD implementation. Perspectives from empirical studies of the implementation process at different levels of the education system’ (Jutta Nikel, Inka Bormann and Arjen Wals) at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), University of Porto (Portugal), 1–5 September 2014.
Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development at the local level. Actor-related schemes of typification and their implications for the distribution of power of interpretation and action. Presentation at the 26th Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) “Governing Educational Spaces: Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in Transition”, University of Education Freiburg, 10–13 June 2014.
Symbolic orders in ESD transfer. Local governance regimes from a sociological and discourse-analytical perspective. Presentation at the research forum “Methodological Approaches to the Analysis of the Transfer of an Education Concept Spanning Institutions and Target Groups” (Steffen Hamborg) at the 24th Congress of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE) ‘Traditions and Futures’, Humboldt University of Berlin, 9–12 March 2014.
“Otherwise, the topic of education for sustainable development is something that is difficult to explain, something that is difficult to convey.” – On the (re)construction of transfer-related knowledge orders in local contexts. Presentation at the 9th meeting of the Network for Sociological Discourse Analysis in Frankfurt, 10–11 January 2014.
2013
Symbolic orders in local constellations of actors involved in ESD transfer – An appropriation-oriented approach to (re)constructive transfer research. Presentation at the early-career conference “Education for Sustainable Development – Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives”, University of Bern (Switzerland), 8–9 November 2013.
The Shadow of the Regime. An Analysis of Knowledge Flows in Local Actor Constellations (with Inka Bormann). Presentation at the Research Day of the Institute of Education, Philipps University of Marburg, 5 June 2013.
2012
Knowledge Passages in Local Constellations of Actors in ESD Transfer (with Inka Bormann). Presentation at the autumn conference of the Commission on Educational Planning, Organisation and Law (KBBB) ‘Mixed Modes of Governance in Education’, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 1–2 October 2012.
Knowledge Passages in a Multi-level System – Reconstructing Knowledge-Related Dynamics in Local Governance Regimes for ESD Transfer. Presentation at the research forum ‘Discourse Innovation, Field Transformation, Path Creation in Networks’ (Susanne M. Weber) at the 23rd Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) ‘Crossing Boundaries in Educational Science’, University of Osnabrück, 11–14 March 2012.
Events/Panel
The Impact of Adult Education on the Climate Crisis (with Jörg Dinkelaker, Martin Haselwanter and Maria Stimm). Panel at the annual conference of the DGfE Adult Education Section ‘Re-constructions: Addressing Crises in Adult Education’, European University of Flensburg, 14–16 September 2022.
The Pedagogy of Social Movements. Questions of educational deconstruction of perspective and object (with Benjamin Bunk). Symposium at the 28th Congress of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE) ‘Ent|Grenz|Ungen’, University of Bremen (online), 13–16 March 2022.
The Appeal of the Niche – Spaces and Times of Sustainability (with Johanna Rakebrand, Jedrzej Sulmowski, Juliane Friedrich, Lena Schmeiduch and Jonas Schulz). Online conference of the joint project “Transformation through Community – Processes of Collective Subjectivation in the Context of Sustainable Development”, University of Oldenburg, 18–20 November 2021.
The Shadows Cast by Political Education: Populism – Fatalism – Erosion of Responsibility (with Michael Brandmayr, May Jehle and Helge Kminek). Research forum at the 27th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) “Optimisation”, University of Cologne, 15–18 March 2020.
[Event cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic]
Brave New World. How the present shapes its future (with Maxi Berger, Nikolaus Buschmann, Rea Kodalle and Andrea Querfurt). Series of lectures and workshop series organised by the Scientific Centre for the Genealogy of the Present (WiZeGG) in collaboration with the Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities (3GO) at the University of Oldenburg, winter semester 2019/20.
Symbolic Crusades and Discursive Struggles – Analysing Regimes of Power/Knowledge using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (with Saša Bosančić). Panel at the 3rd DiscourseNet Congress “Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World”, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Gennevilliers (France), 11–14 September 2019
Our Shared Future (and Sustainability)? A Long Evening of Discussion (with Nikolaus Buschmann, Lars Hochmann and Jedrzej Sulmowski; moderator: Björn Wendt). Held as part of the event series “Shaping the Future: A June Week in Oldenburg”, Klub Polyester, 7 June 2019
DiscourseNet Conference 22: Discourse, Power, Subjectivation (with Jens Maesse, Verena Fingerling, Julian Hamann, Saša Bosančić, Johannes Angermuller, Ronny Scholz, David Adler, Jeannine Wintzer, Yannik Porsché, Martin Nonhoff, Frieder Vogelmann and Johannes Beetz). Justus Liebig University Giessen, 12–14 September 2018
When Humans Endanger the Future. Politics of Sustainability between Participation, Pedagogisation and Paternalism (with Nikolaus Buschmann, Lars Hochmann and Jedrzej Sulmowski). Future Workshop as part of the Oldenburg School for Social Sciences and Humanities 2018, University of Oldenburg, 6 September 2018
Methodological approaches to analysing the transfer of an educational concept across institutions and target groups. Organisation of the research forum at the 24th Congress of the DGfE in Berlin, 9–12 March 2014
Workshops
Analysis of modes of subjectification. In-depth workshop at the Summer School “Discourse Analysis in the Sociology of Knowledge” (WDA), University of Augsburg, 22–24 July 2024.
Discourse and subjectification research in the sociology of knowledge. One-day workshop (6 hours) at the 11th Giessen Methods Workshop on Education, Culture and Society, Justus Liebig University Giessen (online), 23 February 2023.
Education for Sustainable Development. Contradictions, Ambivalences and Problems of Delimitation. Workshop at the ‘Sustainable Higher Education in North Rhine-Westphalia’ education forum organised by netzwerk n, Freiraum – Innovation Lab at the University of Wuppertal (online), 22 September 2022
Sociological Research on Discourse and Subjectivation. One-day workshop (6 hours) at the 10th Giessen Methods Workshop on Education, Culture and Society, Justus Liebig University Giessen (online), 24 February 2022.
Self-formation through activism. Perspectives on political subjectivation in social movements. Workshop at the 53rd Congress of the Initiative for Psychology in Environmental Protection e.V.: “The Limits of Environmental Psychology: Understanding the Social Determinants of Environmentally Relevant Behaviour”, Burg Rieneck, 30 May – 2 June 2019
Transformation through sustainable consumption? The politicisation of everyday life between empowerment and discipline. Workshop at the 53rd Congress of the Initiative for Psychology in Environmental Protection (Initiative Psychologie im Umweltschutz e.V.): “The Limits of Environmental Psychology: Understanding the Social Determinants of Environmentally Relevant Behaviour”, Rieneck Castle, 30 May – 2 June 2019
Transformation through sustainable consumption? The politicisation of everyday life between emancipation and discipline. Workshop at the conference “Education. Power. Future. Learning for socio-ecological transformation?”, University of Kassel, 21–24 February 2019
Discourse analysis from a sociology of knowledge perspective. Delivery of a two-day workshop (9.5 hours) at the 5th Giessen Methods Workshop on Education, Society and Culture, 18–19 February 2016
Reconstruction of governance regimes for ESD transfer (with Inka Bormann). Organisation of the nationwide results workshop on the BMBF-funded research project in Erfurt, 24 November 2014
Research projects
- Transformation through community. Processes of collective subjectivation in the context of sustainable development (TransGem) (NMWK/VW-Stiftung; 2019-2023)
- Shaping the future (associate member) (NMWK/VW-Stiftung; 2018-2019)
- Resilience of socio-technical systems exemplified at the electricity transport and actor system (NMWK/VW-Stiftung; 2015-2019)
- Reconstruction of governance regimes of ESD transfer (BMBF; 2011-2015)