Stefan Aufenanger (English Version)

Dr. Stefan Aufenanger (*1950); Professor of Pedagogy and Media Education at the University of Mainz/Germany. Stefan Aufenanger is full professor and head of the working group ‘media education’ at the faculty of social sciences at the University of Mainz since 2004. and . Currently he is Dean of the Faculty of social sciences, media, and sports. He holds a university degree in pedagogy, psychology and sociology and a Doctor title in Sociology from the University of Mainz.

Previously, he was professor of Pedagogy and Media Education at the University of Hamburg for eleven years. There he was Executive Director of the ‘Institute for the Foundations of Education’ (1995-1999), and Executive Director of the Media Centre at the Faculty of Education 1996-1998. He was the Academic Director of the ‘Foundation of Reading Promotion’ in Germany from 2006 to 2010. Before becoming Professor, he had worked at several universities in Germany and Switzerland. His main research topics are electronic media and the family, television and children, children and advertising, multimedia in education, moral education, and qualitative research methods.

Additionally, he is co-editor of the Journal ‘Computer + Unterricht’ (‘Computer + school’), member of the editorial board of the international “Journal of Children and Media’ and member of the advisory board of the journal ‘medien & erziehung’ (media & education’), as well as consultant for several research projects. He is also a teacher in further education programmes for Kindergarten, Elementary and Primary school teachers. Furthermore he was member of the board of the ‘Association for Media Education and Communication Culture’ (GMK) (Bielefeld), and speaker of the division ‘Media Education’ of the ‘German Association of Educational Science’ (DGfE) for several years. Recently, he is a member of the academic board of the Advertising Educational Forum (AEF/London), and a member of EU-Expertengroup ‚Media Literacy, and Media Smart, an initiative of the German Broadcaster SuperRTL for advertising education for children.

He is coordinator of several projects, e.g. "ZEITLast - the workload of BA-students", "media competence at schools", and his team is developing multimedia programmes for Primary Schools and for Higher Education (e.g. BaSiS, MekoLLi).

If you are interessed in some of his Englisch Publications, you can find one here.

Addresses:

Prof. Dr. Stefan Aufenanger
Institute of Education
University of Mainz/Germany
55099 Mainz

Phone: +49-6131-3926652
Fax: +49-6131-3925995

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Web: www.aufenanger.de