Prof. Dr. Sabine Reh

Projects

• Abitur Examination Practices and Respective Essays From 1882 to 1972
• Educational Myths About the GDR (MythErz)
• FID – Specialised Information Service “Educational Science and Educational Research”
• SchiWa – Schools in Times of Change
• SoQuZ – Social Data as Sources of Contemporary History
• West German Student Journals From the 1950s and 1960s. Student Journals as Artefacts of Secondary School Cultures (PAUSE)

Curriculum Vitae

Since 11/2019

Deputy Executive Director of DIPF

09 – 11/2018

Professeur Invité at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Since 10/2012

Professor of History of Education (W3-S) at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Director of the BBF | Research Library for the History of Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education

2004 – 2012

Professor of General Education and History of Education (C4) at the Technical University Berlin

2003 – 2004

Professor of School Education (Secondary Schools) (C3) at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

2002 – 2003

Professor of School Pedagogy (School Reform) (C3) at the Pedagogical University of Freiburg

2001 – 2002

Stand-in Professor (C3) of School Pedagogy (School Education) at the University of Vechta (rejecting the call to the University of Vechta, 2002)

2002

Habilitation at the University of Hamburg: "Occupational biographies of East German teachers as 'confessions'. Interpretations and methodological reflections on biography research in educational science" (post-doctoral fellowship from the DFG (German Research Foundation)

1993 – 2002

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education/School Pedagogy (University of Hamburg)

1992

PhD: "Education of the unemployed during the First World War and the Weimar Republic. Education between market policy and welfare", (PhD scholarship of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation)

1985

Teaching degree for secondary schools (i.e. Zweites Staatsexamen)

1977 – 1983

Studies of German Language and Literature, History and Educational Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and the University of Hamburg, graduating with the "Erstes Staatsexamen"

1977

Abitur

Born in 1958, married, three children

Research Interests

• Research on educational history, particularly cultural and social history of pedagogical institutions, professions and practices
• History of (subject) instruction
• History of pedagogical knowledge in Germany after 1945
• Ethnography of pedagogical practices and orders
• Theory and methodology of historical and reconstructive-hermeneutical educational research, Digital Humanities

Positions and Board Memberships

• Permanent member of the working group "Social Data and Contemporary History" at the Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg (since 2020)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Division "History of Education" at DGfE (German Educational Research Association) (since 2019)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Bildungslabors für die LehrerInnenbildung der School of Education" at University of Salzburg/Austria (since 2019)
• Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Georg Eckert Institute – Leibniz Institute of International Textbook Research (GEI) (2017-2022, deputy chairperson 2015-2017)
• Member of the Interdisciplinary Working Group „Archiv sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Erhebungen und amtlicher Statistiken Deutschlands nach 1945“, promoted by the Werner-Reimers-Foundation (since 2017)
• Co-editor of  the "Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung (JHB)" (since 2016)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung“ (since 2016)
• Member of the Advsory Board of the Center for Information and Research on German Education and Science Policy at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) (since 2015)
• Member of the External Avisory Board of the "Centrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung (CeLeB)" (Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research) at the University of Hildesheim (since 2015)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the "Jahrbuch Ganztagsschule" (since 2015)
• Co-editor of the serial "Quellen und Dokumente zur Geschichte der Erziehung" (since 2013)
• Co-editor of the serial "Bildungsgeschichte. Forschung – Akzente – Perspektiven" (since 2013)
  
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Deutschen Comenius Gesellschaft" (since 2013)
  
• Co-editor of the journal “Zeitschrift für Pädagogik“ (since 2012)
• Member of the Chamber for Education, Children and Youth of the EKD (Protestant Church of Germany) (2012-2020)
• Member of the "Fachausschusses Geistes-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften am Akkreditierungs-, Certifizierungs- und Qualitäts-Institut" (Specialists Committee for Humanities, Language and Cultural Studies of the Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute, ACQUIN) (2012-2018)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Institute for School Quality Improvement (ISQ) (2012–2014)
• Member of the Executive Board of the DGfE – German Educational Research Association, 2010–2016 (vice chair 2012–2013, chair 2013– 2014)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the journal  "Die Deutsche Schule(DDS)“ (since 2009)
• Member of the Advisory Board f the serial "Pädagogische Fallanthologie" (since 2007)
• Co-editor of the journal “Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung“ (2007– 2016)
• Jury member of the Landeslehrpreis (i.e state teaching award), Pedagogical Universities (Pädagogische Hochschulen) in Baden-Wuerttemberg (since 2007–2012)
• Member of the Jury for the DGfE Junior Researchers Prize (2006– 2008)
• Member of several committees appointing professorships at the Humboldt-University Berlin, the Technical University Berlin and other universities (e.g. University of Potsdam, University of Lüneburg, Pedagogical University Freiburg, University of Göttingen)

Publications

• Publications since 2012 (DIPF database of publications)
• List of publications (pdf)