Dietmar Larcher
Dietmar Larcher (born October 3, 1940 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian educationalist and university professor. In books, projects and countless articles, he deals with the psychosocial aspects of multilingualism, foreignness and intercultural educational research.
life and work
After attending grammar school in Hall in Tirol , Larcher studied German and English in Innsbruck and London. In 1964 he obtained his doctorate with his dissertation on dialect geography of the Zillertal Alps. phil. at the University of Innsbruck . Until 1968 he was a high school teacher for German and English at various Tyrolean schools, until 1969 university lecturer for German as a foreign language at Stetson University in Florida , USA. In 1970 he developed the school organization model "Schigymnasium Stams ", which he directed until 1971. From 1971 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck; Larcher completed his habilitation in curriculum theory and in 1984 was appointed full professor for educational science at the University of Klagenfurt , where he held a professorship until 2000; Dietmar Larcher was married to Agnes Larcher , has two children and lives in Mönichkirchen , Vienna and at the respective places of his research and teaching stays.
Research activity
His research activities range from questions of the psychological and social situation of people who are socialized in two languages, to language as social action and questions of identity or foreignness in the case of bilingualism.
Visiting professorships
Larcher was scientific director at the multilingual center of the province of Bolzano, professor at the Beheshti University in Tehran for German as a foreign language, visiting professor in China for intercultural education and multilingualism at the Hangzhou Normal University in Hangzhou. Further research stays took him to Nicaragua, the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria), Indonesia, Madagascar, Guatemala, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietmar Larcher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Free University of Bozen : Curriculum Vitae by Dietmar Larcher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Larcher, Dietmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian educationalist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |