This is the bilingual (German/English) website of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen, Chair of Education with a focus on culture and aesthetic education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Here you will find my personal weblog as well as information and materials on my academic activities. For official information and statements, see the website of theInstitute of Education at FAU.
The research conducted at my chair focuses in particular on the significance of aesthetic, cultural and artistic educational processes under conditions of cultural transformation. The focus of my work is on historiographically sensitised educational theory formation on aesthetic and media phenomena as well as on (qualitative-reconstructive) empirical research on phenomena such as post-digital culture. As a committed member of the UNESCO UNITWIN network Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, the Chair is particularly committed to global/glocal thinking and cultural-theoretical as well as postcolonial perspectives.
Research fields: Postdigital culture, aesthetic education, media education, identity theory.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-5890
Appointments and Activities
Member of the Expert Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German UNESCO Commission (since 2022)
Member of the Expert Committee on Culture of the German UNESCO Commission (since 2021)
Member of the Education Advisory Board of the City of Nuremberg for Arts and Cultural Education/Non-formal Education (since 2021)
Member of the Advisory Board of the Leibniz Science Campus – Postdigital Participation – Braunschweig (since 2020)
Speaker of the Institute for Pedagogy at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (since 2019)
Member of the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO) (since 2016).
Director of the Academy for School Theater and Performative Education (since 2015)
Co-editor of the series “Spaces of Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary – Intercultural – Institutional” (together with Johannes Bilstein, Jutta Ecarius, Eckart Liebau, Ursula Stenger, Kristin Westphal and Jörg Zirfas). Weinheim: Juventa/Beltz 2013-.
Review activities and peer reviews for BMBF, SNF, ZfE, Springer, merz wissenschaft, MedienPädagogik, ZQF, Bildung und Erziehung (BuE), among others.
Professional societies, academic networks
Member of the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO) (since 2019)
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Section I: Humanities (since 2018)
Member of UNESCO UNITWIN Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development (since 2017)
Member of the Society for Media Studies (GfM) (since 2014)
Member of the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK) (since 2013)
Member of the International Network for Research in Arts Education (INRAE) (since 2012)
Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin (since 2005)
Member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) (since 2005)
Section General Pedagogy: Commission Pedagogical Anthropology
Section Media Education
Member of the Society for Historical Anthropology (since 2000)
Former Appointments and Activities
formerly: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Grimme Research College (2017-2021)
formerly: member of the program selection committee of the DGfE (2017, 2019)
formerly: Chair of the Conference of University Educators in Bavaria (2017-2019)
formerly: member of the conference advisory board “Educational Worlds of the Future: BMBF Educational Research Conference 2019”
formerly: Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aesthetic Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2015-2019)
formerly: member of the expert group “Certification of Digital Competencies” of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation
formerly: Member of the advisory board of Handbuch Arts and Cultural Education Online – kubi-online.de (2013-2017)
formerly: Speaker of the GMK expert group Qualitative Media and Communication Research (together with Thomas Knaus) (2014-2017)
formerly: Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aesthetic Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2011-2015)
formerly: member of the federal board of the Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur (GMK) (2013-2015)
formerly: Member of the Board of Trustees of the OpenNetworX Foundation (2009-2013)
Academic mentors
- Dieter Geulen (subject-oriented socialisation theory)
- Christoph Wulf (educational anthropology, historical anthropology)
- Winfried Marotzki (media education, educational theory)
- Eckart Liebau (cultural education)
CV
Born on 8 September 1968 in Krefeld/North Rhine-Westphalia.
M.A. studies in educational science and philosophy in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Berlin. Study focus: critical theory, post-structuralism, socialisation theory, historical anthropology.
Graduated with a Master’s thesis on “Identity and Self. Conceptual, historical and critical aspects”. The thesis was published as volume 1 of the series “Berliner Arbeiten zur Erziehungs- und Kulturwissenschaft” by the Institute for Educational Science and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin.
Research assistant at the Department of Anthropology and Education, Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin under the direction of Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf from October 2000 to September 2004.
Collaboration on project B5 “The production of the social in rituals and ritualisations” of the Collaborative Research Centre 447 “Cultures of the Performative” from 2001 to 2006.
Doctorate (s.c.l.) to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the topic “Image – Medium – Reality. The Reality of the Social and the New Media” (date of disputation: 7 February 2005).
Research assistant at the Chair of General Education, Institute of Educational Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg under the direction of Prof. Dr. Winfried Marotzki from October 2004 to March 2011.
Work on the habilitation project “Mediality and Subjectivation. Strukturale Medienbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einer Historischen Anthropologie des Subjekts” (submitted Sept. 2011).
Interim Professor for Educational Science – Applied Media Studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich from April 2009 to March 2010.
Academic Councillor at the Institute of Education at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg since April 2011.
Interim Professor of Education at the Chair of Education II at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg since November 2013.
Completion of the habilitation procedure with the venia legendi in educational science on 2.7.2014; thus private lecturer at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
Second placement in the W3 appointment procedure “Pedagogy and Media Education” at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
First placement in the W3 appointment procedure “Pedagogy with a focus on culture, aesthetic education and upbringing” at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Holder of the Chair of Pedagogy with a focus on culture, aesthetic education and upbringing (successor to Liebau) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (October 2015).
Appointed to the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (2019).