Educational Background
Diploma of Secondary School
Teaching, University of Mainz (1953)
PhD in
History and Slavic Studies, Free University of Berlin (1954).
Honorary
Doctorate (Dr. h. c.), Faculty of Education, Carl-von-Ossietzky University,
Oldenburg (2002).
Professional Background
1956 - 1964 Teacher,
Friedrichsgymnasium, Kassel.
1964 -
1972 Chair of General and Comparative Education, Paedagogische Hochschule
(Teachers College), Luneburg, Professor of Comparative Education, University of
Hamburg.
1972 -
1998 Department Head, General and Comparative Education, German Institute for
International Educational Research, Frankfurt am Main.
1978-81,
1987-95 Director, German Institute for International Educational Research,
Frankfurt am Main.
1974 -
1995 Professor of Education, University of Frankfurt am Main.
1995
Emeritus Professor.
Affiliations (associations, organizations, institutions)
World Council of Comparative
Education Societies (WCCES), President 1991-96
World
Association of Educational Research (WAER), President 1997-2000; Honorary
member
German
Commission for UNESCO, Honorary Member
Academia
Europaea, Conferred member.
Russian
Academy of Education, Conferred Member.
Selected Publications
Mitter, W. (1978): Secondary
school graduation: university entrance qualification in socialist countries.
Oxford: Pergamon Press. 112 pp.
Mitter,
W. (1984): Education for all. Paris: UNESCO. 153 pp.; also published as
International Yearbook of Education, vol. 36. Genève: International Bureau of
Education.
Mitter,
W. (1987): Schule zwischen Reform und Krise. Zu Theorie und Praxis der
vergleichenden Bildungsforschung. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Köln, Wien: Böhlau. 404
pp.; also published as Studien und Dokumentationen zur deutschen
Bildungsgeschichte, vol. 36.
Mitter,
W. and Muszynski, H. (1997): Pädagogische Reisen in Polen 1989 - 1995. Köln,
Weimar, Wien: Böhlau 1997, IX, 231 pp.; also published as Bildung und
Erziehung, Beiheft 8.
Mitter,
W. (1997): Universalismus und kultureller Pluralismus in der Vergleichenden
Erziehungswissenschaft. In De Klerck, K. and Frank, S. (eds.), Studies in
comparative, international and peace education. Liber Amicorum Henk Van daele.
Gent: C.S.H.P, pp.129-149.
Mitter,
W. (2001): Education for democratic citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe
in the mirror of globalization and transformation. In Limage, L. (ed.),
Democratizing education and educating democratic citizens: International and
historical perspectives. New York / London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp.141-165.
Mitter,
W. (2003): A decade of transformation: Educational policies in Central and
Eastern Europe. International Review of Education, Vol.49, nos. 1-2, pp. 75-96.
Mitter,
W. (2004): Rise and decline of education systems: a contribution to the history
of the modern state. Compare, vol. 34, pp. 351-369.
Mitter,
W. (2005): Akteure und Netzwerke in der Vergleichenden Erziehungswissenschaft.
Pädagogische Rundschau, vol. 59, no.2, pp. 207-220.
Mitter,
W. (2007): Education in Europe: The way ahead. In Hörner, W., Döbert, H., von
Kopp, B. & Mitter, W. (eds.), The education systems of Europe. Dordrecht:
Springer, pp. 852-866.
Mitter,
W. (2007): Globales Lernen - erziehungswissenschaftliche Anmerkungen zu einem
didaktischen Konzept. Tertium Comparationis, vol. 13, no.2, pp.282-295.
Mitter,
W. (2008): The impact of educational research on educational policy in Europe:
Considerations on a complex and ambivalent relation. Revista de pedagogie /
Romanian Journal of Pedagogy, vol. 56, no.7-12, pp. 7-20.
Mitter,
W. (2009): Values and value judgments in international education. In Pusztai,
G. and Rébay, M.(eds.), Kié az oktatáskutatás? Tanulmányok Kozma Tamás 70.
Születésnapjára (Wem gehört die Bildungsforschung? Festschrift zum 70.
Geburtstag von Tamás Kozma). Debrecen: Csokonai Könyvkiadó, pp. 135-148.
Mitter,
W. (2009): Comparative Education in Europe. In Cowen, R. and Kazamias, A.M.
(eds.), International Handbook of Education, Part One. Dordrecht: Springer, pp.
87-99.
Mitter,
W. (2009): Strukturdimensionen des Bildungswesens - Funktionale Differenzierung
versus soziale Ungleichheit. Bildung und Erziehung, vol.62, no.3, pp. 265-280.
Created: 3/10/2011
Updated: 11/13/2014
Contributed By: Wolfgang Mitter