Conferences & speaking

The phenomenological interview as existential communication: Researching and teaching the multiple realities of education.

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 12 April 2024, Philadelphia

‘It’s personal’: School leaders’ and superintendents’ meaning-making of accountability policy in Alabama.

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 12 April 2024, Philadelphia

Seeing the big picture: A transatlantic exchange on research across places, contexts and time.

Transatlantic Roundtables in Education, 12 April 2024, Associated Conference of the AERA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2024

From Vienna’s Conscience to HateBrakers: How Richard Winter’s inquiry into Austria’s National Socialist past 50 years after the Anschluss 1938 launched a contemporary curriculum for reconciliation.

Society for the Study of Curriculum History, Annual Conference, 11 April 2024, Philadelphia (affiliated conference to the AERA)

Symposium: Systematizing cries of crisis that similarly drive school reform and obscure its lasting transformations: patterns & progress.

29th Congress of The German Educational Research Association (GERA), 10-13 March 2024, Halle an der Saale, Germany

From the grammar of schooling to the grammar of teaching. Cross-contextual analyses of teaching. (co-author: Dr. Stefan Becks)

29th Congress of The German Educational Research Association (GERA), 10-13 March 2024, Halle an der Saale, Germany

Eliciting Education Experience. Researching the Multiple Realities of School Reform and Schooling.

British Educational Research Association (BERA), 12-14 September 2023, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Eliciting Experience. An Applied Phenomenology Approach to Researching the Multiple Realities of School Reform and Schooling.

European Educational Research Association (ECER), 21-25 August 2023, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Visions and goals for school development for school leaders. (co-speakers: Franziska Proskawetz (UDE), Dr. Susanne Czaja (TU Dortmund))

Keynote and workshop for school leaders in the context of Schule Macht Stark (SchuMaS), Bavarian Network Conference (2 May 2023) and Rhineland-Palatinate (3 May 2023)

Choice cases and broader patterns of national school reforms after the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. (co-author: Dr. Wilfried Göttlicher)

Society for the Study of Curriculum History, Annual Conference, 12 April 2023, Chicago

A transatlantic exchange about approaches, advances and multiple-reality perspectives on improving public schooling.

Invited Roundtable with German and U.S. scholars, International Cooperation in Education Conference (associated conference to AERA annual conference, 14 March 2023, Chicago

Dropout prevention through a phenomenological approach using Learning Analytics. (co-author: Stefan Becks)

International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) Conference, 12-14 June 2023, University of Aberdeen, UK

The structure of experiencing education: A phenomenological approach to interviews.

Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF) annual conference, 29 February - 2 March 2023, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

German Didaktik and U.S. Curriculum Traditions: Transatlantic Dialogues on The Art of Education. (co-instructor: Stefan Becks)

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Workshop, 18 April 2022, online

30 years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: Collected histories of liberation, family and satire.

Organization for Education History, 1-2 October 2021, online

History of ideas and recent developments in so-called evidence-based policy, accountability and PISA.

Workshop "Political change in school systems. Three decades after the Fall of the Iron Curtain: Results and perspectives", 10 June 2021, online, Masaryk University, Brno, online

J. F. Herbart's teaching for morality: A history of ideas.

Society of the Study of Curriculum History Conference, 7. April 2021, online

Holding Education Research Accountable: Proxy-indicators of A Place Called School

EARLI SIG17 Conference, 9 September 2020, University of Vienna - online due to Covid 19

J. F. Herbart on the Art of Teching: Bildsamkeit and Pedagogical Tact in Education

Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History, 24 June 2020 - online due to Covid 19

“Tot inainte, mandru pionier!” - Romania’s 1989 Revolution

International Symposium "The Fall of the Iron Curtain 1989", 2-3 November 2019, University of Vienna

Tracing Education Pathways Demographically? Schooling Trajectories and Societal Dividing Lines in European Cities.

Division Conference: Educational Research and Planning, German Education Research Association, 16-18 September 2019, University Münster, Germany

Exploring Social Relationships in "a mixed way": Mixed Structural Analysis. (authors: Schoonenboom/Froehlich)

American Educational Research Association, Annual Conference, 6-9 April 2019, Toronto, CAN

No-size-fits-all-accountability: How public schooling is about a place, its history, and the lifeworlds of those involved. (ppt)

American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Annual Conference, 3-5 April 2019, Toronto, CAN

"The problem with evidence is…" - How public schooling is about a place, its history, and the lifeworlds of those involved.

Oxford Education Research Symposium, 20-22 March 2019, University of Oxford, UK

Research is More than Methods: Lessons in English Abstract Writing. (ppt)

Dies Didacticus Professional Development Day, 8 March 2019, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems

Continuing Conversations in Education Policy: How Curriculum and Didaktik Still Enrich Each Other. (ppt)

Curriculum and Didaktik Symposium, 13 September 2018, University of Alabama, USA

Teaching Managers how to do Mixed Methods Research? An Empirical Approach. (ppt)

Mixed Methods International Research Association Annual Conference, 22-25 August 2018, University of Vienna

Accountability Beyond Test Scores: Creating Indicators for the Quality of Schooling from Education Theory. (ppt)

Kaleidoscope, Graduate Student Conference, 24-25 May 2018, Cambridge University, UK

The US as an Example of Comparative Analyses of Education Systems.

Social Ministry of Austria Professional Development Day, 19 April 2018, Social Ministry of Austria

Methods for Methods? A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Research Methodologies. (ppt)

Dies Didacticus Professional Development Day, 7 March 2018, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems