Rudolf Egger (pedagogue)

Rudolf Egger (* 1959 in Deutschfeistritz ) is an Austrian educator and university professor .

Scientific career

Between 1979 and 1985 Egger studied pedagogy, sociology and business administration at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and then worked for a year at the Volkshochschule Graz and the Institute for Educational Sciences at the Karl-Franzens University. In 1986 he became a contract assistant at the Institute for Educational Sciences at Karl Franzens University. He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1989 he had a research and teaching stay at the Free University of Berlin . His habilitation in pedagogy in 1996 was followed by a visiting professorship at Stockholm University in 1996 . In 2002 he was visiting professor at the University of Pristina . A year later he was given a professorship for further education at the University of Mainz, which he did not accept for family reasons. Since 2010, Egger has been Professor of Lifelong Learning - Lifelong Education at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and head of the department for applied learning world research.

Publications

• with Karina Fernandez: Basic education. About the threat to social cohesion through the thinning of the training structure. (= Learning World Research, Volume 11). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-19460-8 .
• with Elke Gruber : claim, objection, contradiction. Through lifelong learning on the way to an open society . Festschrift for Werner Lenz. Volume 4, Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-50398-5 .
• Lifelong learning in the university. How does good university teaching work and how do university lecturers learn their profession? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17845-5 .
• with Marianne Merkt: University learning world. Development of teaching skills in university teaching. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-17846-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Egger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pages by Rudolf Egger on the homepage of the University of Graz