Prof. Dr. Bernd Overwien
Former Head, Section: Didactics of Political Education
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- Nora-Platiel-Straße 5
34127 Kassel
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- Nora-Platiel 5, Raum 3217
2011 2013 | Dean and Academic Dean of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel |
Since 2008 | Activity at the University of Kassel since 2008: Chair "Didactics of Political Education", FB 05 Social Sciences. |
Until end of 2007 | Visiting professor for the didactics of social studies and head of the research unit Global Learning and International Cooperation. Main fields of work: Global Learning (see: www.globaleslernen.de),Internationalization, Informal Learning (see: www.informelles-lernen.de). |
Study and research stays in Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, Argentina, Cameroon; Malawi, USA, Canada, Ethiopia and Cuba. | |
2005 | Re-habilitation to FU Berlin (2005) there member of INA (resigned 2013). |
2001 | Habilitation at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-University in Oldenburg: Informal learning, theoretical discussion and research approaches |
1995 | Doctorate: Vocational skills acquisition and employment in the urban informal sector in Nicaragua - the example of the Barrio 19 July, Managua |
Since 1989 | Research associate and research assistant at the TU Berlin |
Master's degree in Educational Science and Technology/Labor Studies | |
Occupation in vocational education | |
Teacher training with the subjects technology/work science and social studies (scholarship of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation of the DGB) | |
Secondary school diploma and Abitur (German university entrance qualification) | |
Worked as an electrician in Berlin | |
Elementary and secondary school in Haltern, Apprenticeship as a heavy current electrician in Marl-Hüls | |
1953 | Born in Haltern (NRW) |
- Chairman of the Hessian German Association for Political Education (DVPB).
- From 1999 - 2005 Chairman of the Commission for Educational Research with the Third World and Vice-Chairman of the Section for International and Intercultural Comparative Education in the German Society for Educational Science (DGFE),
- Since 2003 member of the Advisory Board of the Landesstelle für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (until 2009) and of the Advisory Board of the ASA-Program (InWEnt),
- 2003-2007 Member of the "International Advisory Board" of the "Work and Lifelong Learning Research Network" at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto/Canada),
- Member of the Round Table of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and coordinator of the WG Informal Learning, see: http: //www.bne-portal.de/
- Since 2009 member of the Advisory Board for Development Education at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
- From 1999 - 2005 Chairman of the Commission for Educational Research with the Third World and Vice-Chairman of the Section for International and Intercultural Comparative Education in the German Society for Educational Science (DGFE)
- Since 2008 Chairman of the Commission on Education for Sustainable Development and on the Board of the Section for International and Intercultural Comparative Education in the German Society for Educational Science (DGFE)
- Board activities in associations
2020:
2020 | Overwien, Bernd: Werte in der Demokratiebildung - Ein Kompass für einen komplexen Bildungsauftrag der politischen Bildung. In denk-doch-mal.de, online magazine of VERDI and IG Metall, issue 2, see: denk-doch-mal.de/wp/Ausgaben/02-20-mehr-werte-als-mehrwert-in-der-bildung/ (31-05-2021). |
2020 | Overwien, Bernd: Informal learning. In: Bollweg. Petra et al: Handbuch Ganztagsbildung, 2nd edition, pp. 231-242. |
2020 | Overwien, Bernd: Global Learning. In: Achour et al. Dictionary of Political Education. Frankfurt/Main, pp. 94-96 |
2020 | Michelsen, Gerd; Overwien, Bernd: Sustainable development and education. In: Bollweg. Petra et al: Handbuch Ganztagsbildung, 2nd edition, pp. 557-576. |
2020 | Overwien, Bernd: Education for Sustainable Development and Civic Education In: Bade, Gesine, Henkel, Nicholas, Reef, Bernd(eds.): Civic Education: Diverse - Controversial - Global, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 230-247 |
2020 | Overwien, Bernd: Education for sustainable development in adult education. In: Forum Erwachsenenbildung. Münster, pp. 13-17 |
2019 2019
2019 | Overwien, Bernd: Political education - steps towards democratic action. In: Böttcher, Wolfgang; Heinemann, Ulrich; Priebe, Botho (eds.): Allgemeinbildung im Diskurs. Plea for a Core Task in School, Seelze, pp. 186-201. |
2019 | Overwien, Bernd (2019): Educación civica en Alemania: desarollo y aspectos de la discusión actual. Bogotá |
2019 | Overwien, Bernd (2019): Global learning in times of increased refugee movements. In: Achour, Sabine; Gil, Thomas (eds.): flight and political education. Frankfurt 2019 |
2019 | Bernd Overwien: Environment, climate change, globalization - fear in civic education? In: Besand, Anja; Overwien, Bernd; Zorn, Peter (eds.): civic education with feeling. Bonn: BpB, 2019, pp. 304-318. |
2019 | Bude, Heinz/ Overwien, Bernd (2019): Society of Fear. Heinz Bude in conversation with Bernd Overwien. In: Besand, Anja; Overwien, Bernd; Zorn, Peter (eds.): political education with feeling. Bonn: BpB, 2019, pp. 139-155. |
2019 | Overwien, Bernd: Political education is not neutral. In: journal "Demokratie gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit" issue 1/May-2019) |
2019 | Overwien, Bernd: Political education - steps towards democratic action. In: Böttcher, Wolfgang; Heinemann, Ulrich; Priebe, Botho (eds.) (2019): General education in discourse: a plea for a core task of schools |
2018 | Overwien, Bernd; Kohlmann, Eva-Maria (2018): The global perspective of education for sustainable development in school-based practice phases of teacher education. In: Meier, Monique; Ziepprecht, Kathrin; Mayer, Jürgen (Eds.): Teacher education in networked learning environments pp. 133-148. |
2018 | Overwien, Bernd (2018): Global learning and intercultural education. In: Burow, Axel-Olaf; Bornemann, Stefan (Eds.): the great handbook of teaching & education in schools. Cologne, pp. 515-327 |
2018 | Overwien, Bernd (2018): Civic education from a global perspective. In: Besand, Anja; Gessner, Susann (Eds.): Political education with a clear view: Festschrift for Wolfgang Sander Frankfurt/M.; pp.94-104. |
2018 | Overwien, Bernd (2017): Global learning. In: Gogolin, Ingrid; Georgi, Viola; Krüger-Potratz, Marianne; Lengyel, Dorit; Sandfuchs, Uwe (eds.): Handbuch Interkulturelle Pädagogik. Bad Heilbrunn, pp. 251-254. |
2015 2017
2017 | Kohlmann, Eva-Maria; Overwien, Bernd (2017): Education for sustainable development and global perspectives in teacher education. In: ZEP : journal for international education research and development education . Vol. 40 (2017), 3, pp. 27-29. |
2017 | Overwien, Bernd (2017, 2nd ed.): learning (in-) formally and education (non-) formally. In: Lang-Wojtasik, Gregor; Klemm, Ulrich (eds.): Handlexikon Globales Lernen. Münster/Ulm, pp. 274-277. |
2017 | Overwien, Bernd (2017, 2nd ed.): networks. In: Lang-Wojtasik, Gregor; Klemm, Ulrich (eds.): Handlexikon Globales Lernen. Münster/Ulm, pp. 297-300. |
2017 | Overwien, Bernd (2017): Civic education and global learning: distance between science and practice? In: Emde, Oliver; Jakubczyk, Uwe; Kappes, Bernd; Overwien, Bernd (eds.) (2017): Changing the world with education? Global learning for sustainable development. Berlin and Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, pp. 121-132. |
2017 | Overwien, Bernd (2017): The future of learning in a global and sustainable perspective. In: Burow, Olaf-Axel. (Ed.): Education 2030- Seven trends that are revolutionizing schools, pp. 138-150. |
2017 | Overwien, Bernd (2017): Global learning in out-of-school civic education. In: Achour, Sabine; Gill, Thomas (eds.): What political education can do. Introduction to civic education, pp.201-2010. |
2017 | Emde, Oliver; Jakubczyk, Uwe; Kappes, Bernd; Overwien, Bernd (eds.)(2017): Changing the world with education? Global learning for sustainable development. Berlin and Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich. |
2017 | Bechtum, Alexandra; Overwien, Bernd (2017): Can postcolonial critique make school? On its limits and potentials for (development) political education work. In: Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen; Peters, Stefan; Weinmann, Nico (Eds.): Development theory of today - development policy of tomorrow, pp. 59-85. |
2016 | Overwien. Overwien: (2016): Global learning and political education a difficult relationship? In: ZEP (Journal of International Educational Research and Development Education) Issue 2, pp. 7-11 www.waxmann.com/index.php |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd (2016): Global learning. Understanding globalization and taking action. In: Brand, Ulrich, Schwenken, Helen, Wullweber, Joscha: Analyzing, Critiquing and Changing Globalization: The Critical Science Project. Hamburg, pp. 236-247 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd (2016): Global learning - learning processes and political action. In: Research Journal New Social Movements, Issue 4, pp. 40-45. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd (2016): Global learning & education for sustainable development. Does the Beutelsbach Consensus hinder thematic and methodological innovation? In: Widmaier, Benedikt; Zorn, Peter (eds.): Do we need the Beutelsbach Consensus? Bonn: BPB, pp. 260-268. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Learning - References to Teaching Right Livelihood. In: Christoforatou, Ellen (ed.): Education in a Globalized World. Teaching Right Livelihood. Immenhausen/Kassel 2016, pp. 40-56. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Trends in educational policy - competence orientation - inclusion. In: Hufer, Klaus-Peter; Lange, Dirk (eds.): Handbuch Politische Erwachsenenbildung. Schwalbach 2016, pp. 91-98. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Informal learning - a historical outline. In: Harring, Marius; Witte, Matthias D.; Burger, Timo (Eds.): Handbuch informelles Lernen. Interdisciplinary and international perspectives. Weinheim 2016, pp. 41-51 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Informal learning and political education. In. Rohs, Matthias (ed.): Handbook of informal learning. Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 399-412. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: "The focus of my research is global learning within an education for sustainable development". In: Pohl, Kerstin (ed.): Positions in Civic Education 2. Schwalbach 2016, pp.196-211. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd; Wulff, Claudia: Education is exchange! Raúl Montenegro, Biodiversity and the Soybean. In: Christoforatou, Ellen (ed.): Education in a Globalized World. Teaching Right Livelihood. Immenhausen/Kassel 2016, pp. 100-112. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Informal learning- a term from the international context in Germany. In: Brodowski, Michael; Verch, Johannes (eds.): Informal learning on the ground as a contribution to sustainable community development. Opladen 2016, pp. 13-24 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Global learning between education and political action. In: Jakob, Silke (ed.): Engagierte Jugendliche in der Gesellschaft: Öffentlichkeit, Vertraulichkeit und Diskretion im Berufsfeld der Sozialen Arbeit. Opladen 2016 pp. 17-32 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Education for sustainable development in schools. In: Schweer, Martik (Ed.): Education for sustainable development in pedagogical fields of action - basis, anchoring and methodology in selected teaching-learning contexts. Saarbrücken 2016 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Overwhelming economy. A gloss. In Journal for political education. Issue 2, 2016 |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd (2016): Sustainable development: guiding principle for ethical and political basic education? In: Bittner, Alexander; Pyhel, Thomas: Environmental ethics for children. Munich |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Sustainable development and globalization in political education - dealing with values and normativity. In: Ulrike Graf, Susanne Klinger, Reinhold Mokrosch, Arnim Regenbogen, Sonja Strube (eds.): Values Education - Justice, Peace, Happiness. |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Global learning - learning processes and political action. In: research journal social movements. Jg. 29/issue 4/2016, ed. by Ingrid Miethe (Giessen) and Silke Roth (Southampton). |
2016 | Overwien, Bernd: Education for sustainable development and political education: dealing with normativity. In: Eser, Uta: Jenseits von Belehrung. Ethics and ESD (AT). |
2016 | Bernd Overwien: Formal and Informal Learning. In: Anja Kraus, Jürgen Budde, Maud Hietzge, Christoph Wulf (eds.): "Schweigendes" Wissen in Lernen und Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation. |
2015 | Karpa, Dietrich; Overwien, Bernd; Plessow, Oliver (eds.): Extracurricular learning sites in political and historical education. Immenhausen near Kassel 2015 |
2015 | Overwien, Bernd: Participation and sustainability - innovations for civic education. In: Harles, Lothar; Lange, Dirk (Eds.) (2015): Zeitalter der Partizipation. Schwalbach, pp. 158-167 |
2015 | Overwien, Bernd: Chapter 6 - The Global Development Learning Area in Teacher Education, in: KMK/BMZ: Orientierungsrahmen für den Lernbereich Globale Entwicklung im Rahmen einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Bonn/Berlin 2015, pp. 442-457 see: www.orientierungsrahmen.de |