Veronika Magyar-Haas

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 veronika.magyar-haas@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7557
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-9813

  • Research on well-being, agency and vulnerability in childhood and adolescence
  • Social science-based research on body and emotions
  • Qualitative research on inequality in educational contexts
  • Philosophy of education, philosophical anthropology, anthropological approaches in educational science

Professor
Department of Education

RM 02 bu. S-1.108B
Rue P.A. de Faucigny 2
1700 Fribourg
RM 02, S-1.108B
+41 26 300 7557

Biography

  • Professor of Education Sciences with a focus on childhood and adolescence and Head of the University Centre for Early Childhood Education ZeFF (since 09/2019)
  • Responsible for Bachelor's programmes in «Education Sciences» and «Education/Psychology» (since 10/2019)
  • Member of the scientific committee of the interdisciplinary Master's programme «Family, Child and Youth Studies» (since 09/2020)
  • External member of the scientific advisory board of the FHNW School of Education (since 07/2020)
  • External member of the Commission for Research and Development of the Bern University of Teacher Education (since 01/2021)
  • Member of the Board of the «Swiss Society for Social Work» SGSA (since 09/2021)
  • President of the Department of Education Sciences (since 08/2023)

Academic career

  • Representation of the W3 professorship for Education science with a focus on social pedagogy and family research at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (summer term 2019)
  • Senior research assistant at the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education Science, University of Zurich (2015-2019)
  • Doctorate on the topic «Body relations. Spaces of education and negotiation of boundaries in pedagogical contexts» at the Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University (07/2015), overall grade ‹summa cum laude›
  • Research assistant at the Chairs of Philosophy of Education and Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education Science, University of Zurich (2008-2015)
  • Research assistant in the ethnographic pilot study «Context-related analysis of the language education of young children in day-care centres», Bielefeld University (2007-2008)
  • Doctoral scholarship holder of the Research Training Group «Youth Welfare in Transition» of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Bielefeld University (2005-2008)
  • Studied Education science, German philology and Philosophy at the University of Mannheim and in Frankfurt am Main

Research and publications

Teaching and courses

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