David Furtschegger, PhD
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52 a, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room 08L010 (8th floor)
0043-512-507/40029
david.furtschegger@uibk.ac.at
Profile
Main areas of work
- Participation research
- Inclusive education, social work and their social-theoretical foundations
- Practical theoretical teaching research
- Qualitative research methods
Current work
- Furtschegger, D., Rasell, M. & Ohnmacht, F. (2025): Emotions and power in the context of participation processes in child and youth welfare. Social Passages (2025).https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-025-00553-8
- Furtschegger, D. (2025): Learning in free fall: New social inequalities in schools. Austrian Journal of Sociology (ÖZS), No. 50(26). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-025-00609-2
- Ohnmacht, F., Rasell, M., & Furtschegger, D. (2025). Peer work as a building block for the democratisation of social services: Perspectives from experience experts. Journal for Inclusion, 20(1). https://www.inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/800
- Rasell, M. / Furtschegger, D. / Ohnmacht, F. et al. (2024): Normative, policy, legal and organisational contexts shaping the responsiveness of social services to citizen participation. Research Report 1, Horizon Europe project 'Increasing responsiveness to citizen voice in social services across Europe' (RESPONSIVE). https://responsive-europe.eu/download/normative-policy-legal-and-organisational-contexts-shaping-the-responsiveness-research-report/
- Furtschegger, David (2024): The Rise of the Individual Learner: Sociological Insights on the History of Student-Centred Learning. History of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2291567
- Furtschegger, David (2023): Individualised - idealised - instrumentalised. Lifeworld school in erosion. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/49834-individualisiert-idealisiert-instrumentalisiert.html
- Furtschegger, David (2023): Inclusion as a personal achievement? Learning self-relationships at the intersection and breaking point of social demands. In: Mirjam Hoffmann, Thomas Hoffmann, Lisa Pfahl, Michael Rasell, Hendrik Richter, Rouven Seebo, Miriam Sonntag, Josefine Wagner (eds.): Raum. Power. Inclusion - Researching and developing inclusive spaces. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt (Open Access). S. 334-340.
https://www.klinkhardt.de/newsite/media/20230207_Hoffmann_ua_Raum_Macht_Inklusion.pdf
Current research projects
- Project collaboration and coordination in the Horizon Europe project: Increasing the responsiveness of social services to citizen voice across Europe
- completed: Individualised - idealised - instrumentalised. Lifeworld school in erosion, dissertation
Vita
| Funktion | |
|---|---|
| since 2023 | Project collaboration and coordination in the Horizon Europe project "Increasing the responsiveness of social services to citizen voice across Europe" (Project leader: Michael Rasell) |
| 2021-2023 | Postdoc in the LuF "Disability Studies and Inclusive Education" (substitute) |
| 2021 | PhD, Sociology, University of Innsbruck |
| 2015 | MA, Sociology, University of Innsbruck |
| 2012 | BA, Sociology, University of Innsbruck |
| Stipendien | |
|---|---|
| 2010 - 2021: | Teaching activity as part of the learning project of the "Outpatient Assisted Living & Intensive Socio-Pedagogical Care Network". Management and coordination of the project 2015-2021. Innsbruck. |
| 2010 - 2016: | Freelance carer at "MOHI TIROL - Sozialintegrative Alltagsbegleitung". Innsbruck. |
| 2012 - 2014: | Speaker and moderator at the association "POBI - Political Education for Young People". Tyrol. |
Publications
Monograph:
Furtschegger, David (2023): Individualised - idealised - instrumentalised. Lifeworld school in erosion. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/erziehungswissenschaft/produkte/details/49834-individualisiert-idealisiert-instrumentalisiert.html
Journal article:
- Furtschegger, D., Rasell, M. & Ohnmacht, F. (2025): Emotions and power in the context of participation processes in child and youth welfare. Social Passages (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-025-00553-8
- Furtschegger, D. (2025): Learning in free fall: new social inequalities in schools. Austrian Journal of Sociology (ÖZS), No. 50(26). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614- 025-00609-2
- Ohnmacht, F., Rasell, M., & Furtschegger, D. (2025). Peer work as a building block for the democratisation of social services: Perspectives from experience experts. Journal for Inclusion, 20(1). https://www.inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/800
Furtschegger, David (2024): The Rise of the Individual Learner: Sociological Insights on the History of Student-Centred Learning. History of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2291567
Book contributions:
Furtschegger, David (2023): Inclusion as a personal achievement? Learning self-relationships at the intersection and breaking point of social demands. In: Mirjam Hoffmann, Thomas Hoffmann, Lisa Pfahl, Michael Rasell, Hendrik Richter, Rouven Seebo, Miriam Sonntag, Josefine Wagner (eds.): Raum. Power. Inclusion - Researching and developing inclusive spaces. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt (Open Access). S. 334-340. https://www.klinkhardt.de/newsite/media/20230207_Hoffmann_ua_Raum_Macht_Inklusion.pdf
Research and conference reports:
Rasell, Michael / Furtschegger, D. / Ohnmacht, F. et al. (2024): Normative, policy, legal and organisational contexts shaping the responsiveness of social services to citizen participation. Research Report 1, Horizon Europe project 'Increasing responsiveness to citizen voice in social services across Europe' (RESPONSIVE). https://responsive-europe.eu/download/normative-policy-legal-and-organisational-contexts-shaping-the-responsiveness-research-report/
Furtschegger, David / Ohnmacht, Florian (2017): The unexhausted futures of social theory? An interdisciplinary self-reflection. Austrian Journal of Sociology, No. 4. pp. 425-428. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-017-0281-7
- Ohnmacht, Florian / Furtschegger, David (2017): Sozialtheorie zwischen Lupe und Fernglas, available online at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/sozialtheorie-zwischen-lupe-und-fernglas.html.de
Lectures
- Responsive social services: A new perspective on democracy in social work. Poverty Conference, 16 April 2024, Salzburg (co-authors: Florian Ohnmacht and Michael Rasell).
The learning self: Anti-democratic tendencies in the classroom. Guest lecture (online) at the Heidelberg University of Education, 11 January 2024.
The learning modelling of social problems. Congress of the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS), 3 July 2023, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Learning in the crisis. Risks and transformation potentials. Conference Youth in times of crisis. Austrian Youth Research Conference, 24 June 2023, University of Innsbruck.
Learning subjects of the school (supra-)lifeworld. Conference "Inklusion im Bildungsbereich", Brixen (IT), 3-4 March 2023.
Book discussion "Lifeworld school in erosion?". Discussants: Retired university professor Michael Schratz, Markus Astner. Moderation: Associate Professor Claudia Schreiner. Organisation: Assoc. Prof. Frank Welz, Research Centre "Social Theory". University of Innsbruck, 02 February 2023.
The intersubjectivisation-theoretical view of teaching. Contours of a new perspective for school research. Workshop "Methods of Relationalisation", University of Göttingen, 13-14 October 2022.
The formatting of social learning. ÖFEB Congress, Graz, 20-23 September 2022.
Inclusion as a personal achievement? Learning self-relationships at the interface of social demands.IFO - Conference for inclusion researchers (online), 22-25February 2022
The learning subject in free fall: On social fragmentation in the classroom. Guest lecture at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS) Innsbruck, 15 December 2021.
- Homeschooling - challenges and perspectives. Introduction and moderation: Sociology webcast. University of Innsbruck, 18 November 2020.
- Classics in crisis? Rationality and the Creation of Meaning in Weber and Habermas.Online Symposium: Max Weber (21 April 1864 - 14 June 1920) in appreciation. University of Innsbruck, 15 June 2020.
- Individual learning between autonomy and antinomy. Round-Table at the Department of Sociology, University of Tokyo, 04 November 2019.
- Individual support in the New Middle School (NMS) and the sociological contextuality of its ambivalences. Conference Jugend-Lebenswelt-Bildung: Perspektiven für Jugendforschung in Österreich,University of Innsbruck, 17 November 2017.
Conferences
- Organisational support for the "Zeitschrift für Disability Studies", University of Innsbruck.
- Press work & participation in the organisation of the Austrian Youth Research Conference 2024: Youth in Times of Crisis. University of Innsbruck.
- Press work & participation in the organisation of the symposium "Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung: Perspektiven für Jugendforschung in Österreich", 16-18 November 2017, University of Innsbruck.
- Organisation of research workshops under the direction of Prof. Lisa Pfahl at the Department of Educational Science, WS 2017/18, University of Innsbruck.
Memberships
- Research Centre "Education-Generation-Life Course" at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck.
- Research Centre "Social Theory" at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Innsbruck.
- Research Platform "Organisations & Society" at the University of Innsbruck.
- European Sociological Association (ESA).
- Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (ÖFEB)
- Austrian Society for Sociology (ÖGS)
- Section "Education and Upbringing" of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
Organisation
- Editorial and organisational support of the "Zeitschrift für Disability Studies" (ZDS), University of Innsbruck.
- Part of the organising committee for the Austrian Youth Research Conference 2023: Youth in times of crisis. University of Innsbruck.
- Press work & participation in the organisation of the symposium "Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung: Perspektiven für Jugendforschung in Österreich", 16-18 November 2017, University of Innsbruck.
- Organisation of research workshops under the direction of Prof. Lisa Pfahl at the Department of Educational Science, WS 2017/18, University of Innsbruck.
Reviewer activity
- Austrian Journal of Sociology (ÖZS)
- Journal "Social Problems"