John Litau

Researcher at the GOETE project of the Faculty of Education, University of Frankfurt am Main.

He holds a diploma-degree in educational sciences and is currently preparing his PhD in social science on youth binge drinking. His main research interests are in youth studies and mixed methods.

Coordinator of the GOETE project

Andreas Walther is Professor of Social Pedagogy and Youth Welfare at the Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the University of Frankfurt where he is also the director of the Research Centre “Education and Coping in the Life Course“.

He teaches and carries out research in the areas of youth research, transitions in the life course, child and youth welfare while a special interest are international comparative analysis in social pedagogy and youth transitions. He has been involved in the coordination of the European research network EGRIS (European Group for Integrated Social Research) as well as a series of EU-funded research projects such as Youth Policy and Participation (Yoyo), the Thematic Study on Policy Measures concerning Disadvantaged Youth and Youth – actor of Social Change (UP2YOUTH).

Some recent publications are:

• Loncle, Patricia; Cuconato, Morena; Muniglia, Virginie & Walther, Andreas (eds.) (2012): Youth Participation in Europe. Beyond Discourses, Practices and Realities. Bristol: Policy Press.
• Pohl, Axel & Walther, Andreas (2007): Activating the disadvantaged. Variations in addressing youth transitions across Europe, in: International Journal for Lifelong Education, Vol. 26(5), pp. 533-553.
• Stauber, Barbara & Walther, Andreas (2006): De-standardised pathways to adulthood in Europe: informal learning in informal networks, in: Papers, Revista de Sociología No. 79, pp. 241-262.
• Walther, Andreas (2006): Regimes of Youth Transitions. Choice, flexibility and security in young people’s experiences across different European contexts, in: YOUNG, Vol. 14(2), pp. 119-141.
• Walther, Andreas (2009): „It was not my choice, you know?“ Young people’s subjective views and decision making processes in biographical transitions, in: Schoon, Ingrid & Silbereisen, Rainer K. (eds.): Transitions from School to Work: Globalisation, Individualisation, and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 121-145.
• Walther, Andreas; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela; Biggart, Andy (eds.) (2006): Participation in transition. Motivation of young people for working and learning across Europe, Frankfurt/Main et al.: Peter Lang.

Contact Andreas Walther

The Faculty of Education of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (GUF) encompasses all relevant educational sub-disciplines: philosophy and sociology of education, primary and secondary teacher training, social pedagogy, special education, adult education. It further hosts a series of research centres among which the newly founded research centre „Education and Coping in the Life Course‟ where the coordination of the GOETE project is based starting from month 10.

Previous experience relevant to the tasks

Members of the GUF team have been involved in coordinating the EGRIS research network on youth transitions and several EU-funded research such as Misleading Trajectories (FP 4), Youth Policy and Participation (YOYO; FP 5); Young People and Transition Policies (FP 5); Youth – Actor of Social Change (UP2YOUTH, FP 6) as well as the Thematic Study on Policy Measures concerning Disadvantaged Youth, DG Employment). Ongoing national research within the Research Centre Education and Coping in the Life Course concerns evaluation of programmes for disadvantaged youth in transitions to work, gender studies, drug research, evaluation of special needs education, competence assessment as well as lifelong learning.

Team involved

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Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

researcher at the GOETE Project, of the Faculty of Education, University of Frankfurt am Main

University of Frankfurt
Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education
Grüneburgplatz 1; PEG Fach 48
D-60054 Frankfurt am Main

Phone +49 69 798 36419

E-Mail coordination@goete.eu


CV

• Since 04. 2012 Associate Professor at the State University of Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil
• Since 10. 2010 researcher at the GOETE Project, of the Faculty of Education, University of Tuebingen
• 12. 2006 - 09. 2010 Teaching and research assistant in the department of General Education (Allgemeine Pädagogik) of the Faculty of Education, University of Tuebingen
• 2006 - 2010 Doctorate in Education Science, Institute of Education, University of Tuebingen
• 2000 - 2006 MA degree in Education and American Studies at the J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Memberships

• Germany Society of Education Science (DGfE), Germany
• Brazilian Society of Comparative Education, Brazil
• Comparative and International Education Society, USA
• Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education, M.E.S.C.E, Malta
• Member of NESET – Network of Experts on Social Aspects of Education and Training (www.nesetweb.eu)

Publications

• Deregulierung im Bildungswesen. Münster u. a.: Waxmann (2012) (edited together with Sabine Hornberg).
• Emergenz eines Internationalen Bildungsregimes? International Educational Governance und Regimetheorie. 2011, New Frontiers in Comparative Education, Band 1. Münster u.a.: Waxmann Verlag.
• The Research University in Context: the Examples of Brazil and Germany. (together S. K. Amos and Lúcia Bruno) 2008. In: Baker, D./Wiseman, A. (eds.): The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education", Volume 9 in International Perspectives on Education and Society Series published by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK, S. 111-158.
• World Cultural Patterns: Inequities in Higher Education and Affirmative Action in Brazil. In: Teoría de la Educación (Journal of the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) 2008, pp. 114-132.
• Regimeansatz – Annäherungen an ein Weltweites Bildungsregime. In: Tertium Comparationis, 13, 2 (2007), pp. 157-182.
• The Influence of Transnational Organizations on National Education Systems. Frankfurt/M. et al.: Peter Lang, 2006.