Heinz-Dieter Meyer

Heinz-Dieter Meyer (* 1952 ) is professor for the control of educational systems , educational organization and policy ( comparative education ) at the New York State University in Albany (New York) .

Meyer studied sociology at the University of Göttingen and in 1983 went to Cornell University , USA for a doctorate . Meyer specializes in the management of educational systems and conducts international comparative research. Meyer taught in France ( Insead ) and at the University of Göttingen, he was visiting professor at the University of Peking , Boston University , Penn State and the East-West Institute, Honolulu . In 1989/90 he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard . In 2013 Meyer edited a critical volume together with Aaron Benavot: Pisa, Power, Policy . This was followed by The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class” , in which he emphasizes the independent self-government of universities, as originally in Germany and today in the USA, as the key to global success in the present.

In 2014 he wrote an “Open Letter to Andreas Schleicher ” in which he accused the OECD PISA studies of having a negative effect. Numerous intellectuals such as Diane Ravitch and Noam Chomsky signed this , in Germany also z. B. the teacher functionary Heinz-Peter Meidinger and the educational scientist Malte Brinkmann .

Fonts

with Aaron Benavot: PISA, Power, and Policy: the emergence of global educational governance (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education), 2013 ISBN 978-1873927960
The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class” (Routledge Research in Higher Education), Routledge 2016 ISBN 978-1138802506
with Brian Rowan: The New Institutionalism in Education , 2006 ISBN 978-0791469057

Web links

Literature by and about Heinz-Dieter Meyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Open letter to Andreas Schleicher, 2014 (PDF; 156 kB)
DER SPIEGEL: Pisa and education policy: Interview with Heinz-Dieter Meyer - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. 2014, accessed June 19, 2020 .
Waldorf education today: Against the educational dictatorship through PISA. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
Education, Civil Society and Globalization: A Conundrum Revisited

Single receipts

^ Heinz-Elmar Tenorth : Wilhelm von Humboldt: Education policy and university reform . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, ISBN 978-3-657-78880-4 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Heinz-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educational researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	1952

[1] Heinz-Elmar Tenorth : Wilhelm von Humboldt: Education policy and university reform . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, ISBN 978-3-657-78880-4 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).