Daniel Tröhler

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Daniel Tröhler (born January 9, 1959 in Olten ) is a Swiss educationalist who has held the Chair of General Educational Science at the University of Vienna since January 2017 . As a scientist with a historical approach, he works primarily in the areas of tension between nationality and internationality, ideology and historiography, language and epistemology, as well as politics and school / curriculum.

biography

Tröhler grew up bilingual with French and German. In 1977 he spent a year as an exchange student in Noblesville, Indiana , USA . After his return in 1980 he began studying pedagogy, psychology and journalism at the University of Zurich . There he received his doctorate in 1988. phil. and completed his habilitation in 2002 with the thesis Republicanism and Pedagogy: Pestalozzi in a Historical Context. In the same year he became professor of educational science at the University of Education in Zurich, director of the Institute for Historical Educational Research Pestalozzianum and accepted a substitute professorship at Heidelberg University for one year . In 2004 he spent an extended research period at the University of Chicago . In 2008 he moved from Zurich to the University of Luxembourg as a full professor of education , where he taught for the next eight years. From 2011 to 2016 he was also director of the doctoral school for educational sciences there. Since 2017 he has been teaching as a professor for general educational science at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Vienna in Austria.

Daniel Tröhler has held several visiting professorships: 2009 at the University of Oulu in Finland, 2010 to 2019 at the University of Granada in Spain and since 2018 at the University of Oslo in Norway.

research

Daniel Tröhler got to know different (national) scientific cultures of thought in his scientific career, he made the phenomenon "national thinking styles" (Tröhler 2018) the subject of his theoretical discussion.

Based on and continuing the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the New Zealand historian and political scientist John GA Pocock , Daniel Tröhler developed a method (odological) approach to discourse analysis . This approach makes it possible to identify and analyze (national) specific ways of thinking as ideological (e.g. religious and political) 'languages' within upbringing and education. He has exemplified this in one of his main works, Languages ​​of Education (2011, Routledge), for which he received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Tröhler: International provocations on national styles of thinking in educational science: Perspektiven der Allgemeine Pedagogik (inaugural lecture University of Vienna) . tape 8 , September 15, 2018, p. 173-189 ( researchgate.net [accessed January 6, 2020]).