Ass.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Martin Haselwanter
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52a, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room 09K040 (9th floor)
0043-512-507/40021
martin.haselwanter@uibk.ac.at

Profile
Main areas of work
- Political education
- Adult political education
- Education and protest movements
- Trade union education
Vita
| Berufliche Aktivitäten | |
|---|---|
| since 2020 | Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck |
| 2019-2020 | University Assistant at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck |
| 2011-2019 | Education and public relations officer of the development policy human rights organisation Südwind |
| 2011-2019 | Lectureships at various institutes of the University of Innsbruck |
| 2016-2019 | Teaching assignments at the University of Teacher Education Tyrol (PHT) |
| 2017-2019 | Management and processing of the TWF third-party funded project: Politische Bildung(en) in Österreich. Currents and content-related fields of activity (Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck) |
| 2010-2011 | Youth work (Come-In, youth centre of the municipality of Wattens) |
| 2002-2019 | Collaboration in various extracurricular political education projects |
| Studium | |
|---|---|
| 2007-2014 | Doctorate in Philosophy (Political Science), University of Innsbruck |
| 2003-2009 | Diploma programme in Pedagogy (major in Psychoanalytical Educational Sciences), University of Innsbruck |
| 2001-2006 | Diploma in Political Science, University of Innsbruck |
Research projects
Completed projects
- Political education(s) in Austria. Currents and content-related fields of activity, Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung (TWF), Department of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, 01/05/2017 - 30/04/2019
- Social movements between the political system and alternatives, doctoral scholarship from the University of Innsbruck, 01.03.2008 - 28.02.2010
Publications
Book and journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Haselwanter, Martin (2024): Political education and football in Austria - a search for traces between marginalisation and prevention. In: Fritz, Fabian; Schmidt, Birger; Walter, Simon; Zwecker, Markus (eds.): Wie gelingt partizipative politische Bildung für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Fußball? (Sports fans in the focus of social science research). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 62-76.
Haselwanter, Martin (2023): Extremism prevention and political education: On the rise of extremism prevention approaches and their impact on civic education. In: Momentum Quarterly. Journal for Social Progress, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 224-235. (https://doi.org/10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol12.no4.p224-235)
Haselwanter, Martin (2023): Political adult education and protest movements. The adult education reception of the "Fridays For Future" and "Querdenker*innen" movements. In: Ebner von Eschenbach, Malte; Käpplinger, Bernd; Kondratjuk, Maria; Kraus, Katrin; Rohs, Matthias; Niemeyer, Beatrix; Bellinger, Franziska (eds.): Re-Konstruktionen - Krisenthematisierungen in der Erwachsenenbildung (Publication series of the Adult Education Section of the German Society for Educational Sciences [DGfE]). Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, pp. 155-166. (https://doi.org/10.25656/01:27705)
Haselwanter, Martin; Lederer, Bernd (2022): The challenge of lateral thinkers. Adult education reflections for successful civic education. In: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at - The specialised medium for research, practice and discourse, issue 46/2022. (https://doi.org/10.25656/01:25303)
Haselwanter, Martin (2022): Political education and civic education in the migration society - necessary differentiations. In: Migration und Soziale Arbeit, Issue 1/2022, pp. 33-40. (Weblink, Institutional access provided by University of Innsbruck/University and State Library Tyrol; https://doi.org/10.3262/MIG2201033)
Haselwanter, Martin (2020): The interruption of the time regime as an opportunity for education. Fridays for Future - more than a (school) strike. In: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at - The specialised medium for research, practice and discourse, issue 41/2020. (https://doi.org/10.25656/01:21328)
Book and journal articles
Haselwanter, Martin; Feldmann, Dominik (2024): Extremism Prevention in Germany and Austria in Comparison - Attempts to Explain the Different Characteristics. In: Feldmann, Dominik; Sämann, Jana; Pelzel, Steffen (eds.): Kampffeld politische Bildung. Analysing and criticising current attempts at containment, levelling and limitation. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 80-94.
Haselwanter, Martin (2022): Volker. It is no coincidence that I later orientated myself towards the social movement. In: Leitner, Ulrich; Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.): Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia. (Writings on Political Aesthetics, 3). Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, pp. 265-270.
Haselwanter, Martin (2021): Adult political education in Austria - Insights into a field characterised by diversity. In: Gensluckner, Lisa; Ralser, Michaela; Thomas-Olalde, Oscar; Yildiz, Erol (eds.): Die Wirklichkeit lesen. Political Literacy and Political Education in the Migration Society. (Postmigrant Studies 7). Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, pp. 155-174. (https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5614-5/die-wirklichkeit-lesen/?number=978-3-8394-5614-9)
Haselwanter, Martin (2020): Educational work also means researching one's own situation, analysing one's own situation. Volker Schönwiese - an activist in the disability movement on his political socialisation, activism and the necessity of education. An interview conducted by Martin Haselwanter. In: Hussl, Elisabeth; Haselwanter, Martin; Schreiber, Horst (eds.): Ohne Maske. Gaismair Yearbook 2021. Innsbruck, Vienna: Studienverlag, pp. 66-75.
Haselwanter, Martin (2019): Extracurricular civic education - an insight. In: Haselwanter, Martin; Hussl, Elisabeth; Schreiber, Horst (eds.): Im Labyrinth der Zuversicht. Gaismair Yearbook 2020. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bolzano: Studienverlag, pp. 178-190.
Haselwanter, Martin (2018): Naming contradictions - questioning certainties. Practical examples and approaches to civic education. In: Brandmayr, Michael; Heydarpur, Sepideh (eds.): Political education and political learning in Tyrol. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, pp. 105-115.
Haselwanter, Martin (2015): The student unibrennt protests 2009/2010. On the extinguishing of a fire and the continued burning of universities. In: Research Journal Social Movements -PLUS, Supplement to Issue 2/2015.https://forschungsjournal.de/fjsb/wp-content/uploads/fjsb-plus_2015-2_haselwanter.pdf)
Further publications:
Editorships
Hussl, Elisabeth; Haselwanter, Martin; Schreiber, Horst (2020): Without a mask. Gaismair Yearbook 2021. Innsbruck, Vienna: Studienverlag.
Haselwanter, Martin; Hussl, Elisabeth; Schreiber, Horst (2019): In the labyrinth of confidence. Gaismair Yearbook 2020. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bolzano: Studienverlag.
Monograph
Haselwanter, Martin (2014): Society - Education - Protest. Student activism in times of the instrumentalisation of education: unibrennt! Bremen: Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung.
Further reading
Haselwanter, Martin (2022): Research on extracurricular civic education is not particularly strong in Austria. Five questions for Martin Haselwanter. (Weblink)
Haselwanter, Martin (2019): "The university is on fire!"...in Innsbruck, Vienna and everywhere. On student protest, grassroots democracy and the (attempted) extinguishing of a fire. In: Hidden Histories. 350 years of the University of Innsbruck. (Weblink)
Lectures, presentations and talks (selection)
Prevention of extremism in Austria. On the emergence of a political-educational field and effects on political education. Lecture at the conference "Kampffeld politische Bildung" of the Forum kritische politische Bildung, University of Siegen, Germany, 10 March 2023.
(Political) Education and Protest Movements. Historical and current examples. Lecture, lecture series "Politische Bildung und Zeitgeschichte", University of Innsbruck, Department of Contemporary History, 24 January 2023 (together with Marcel Amoser).
Crystallisation points of political adult education - Fridays for Future and the Querdenker*innen in comparison. Lecture as part of the panel "Resonances of Adult Education on the Climate Crisis", Annual Conference of the DGfE Adult Education Section "Re-Constructions. Crisis thematisations in adult education", University of Flensburg/Germany, 14.9.2022.
Political education and Austrian football - a search for clues. Lecture, conference "Wie gelingt partizipative politische Bildung für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Fußball?", Hamburg/Germany, online, 17 February 2022.
Ohne Maske, presentation of the Gaismair Yearbook 2021, Innsbruck, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, 29 September 2021 (together with Elisabeth Hussl and Horst Schreiber).
Die unibrennt-Proteste 2009/2010. Zum produktiven Scheitern einer studentischen Protestbewegung, lecture, ÖH-Ringvorlesung "Macht.Gesellschaft.Hochschule". University of Salzburg, online, 02/06/2021.
Gewerkschaftliche Bildung und Intersektionalität, lecture, 2nd Vienna Conference on Citizenship Education, University of Vienna, online, 05.11.2020.
Im Labyrinth der Zuversicht, presentation of the Gaismair Yearbook 2020, Innsbruck, Café Brennpunkt, 22 November 2019 (together with Elisabeth Hussl and Horst Schreiber).
"Universität im besten Sinne" - 10 Jahre unibrennt-Proteste, film talk, University of Innsbruck, Sowi HS 1, 29 October 2019 (together with Andrea Umhauer).
Moderations (selection)
Activism and Environment, Chair, Panel 11, Austrian Youth Research Conference 22 - 24 June 2023, University of Innsbruck, 23.06.2023.
New Perspectives on Social Movements in the 20th Century, Chair incl. short commentary, Panel 20, 13th Austrian Contemporary History Day 2020 - 1st Virtual Contemporary History Day, University of Innsbruck, online, 17 April 2020.
Conferences
Organisation of events (selection)
- 4.-25.11.2021
Vom Wissen zur Mündigkeit - politische Bildung, four-part lecture series, University of Innsbruck, https://www.freirad.at/vom-wissen-zur-muendigkeit/ - 29.9.2021
Without Mask, Presentation of the Gaismair Yearbook 2021, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck. (together with Elisabeth Hussl and Horst Schreiber) https://www.gaismair-gesellschaft.at/gaismair-jahrbuch-2021-ohne-maske/ - 22.11.2019
Im Labyrinth der Zuversicht, presentation of the Gaismair Yearbook 2020, Innsbruck, Café Brennpunkt, Innsbruck. (together with Elisabeth Hussl and Horst Schreiber) https://www.freirad.at/?p=19876 - 29.10.2019
"University in the best sense" - 10 years of unibrennt protests, film screening and discussion, University of Innsbruck. (together with Critical University Innsbruck) https://www.facebook.com/events/431880307522202/?ref=newsfeed - 30.8.-1.9.2019
Öko Fair - the Tyrolean sustainability fair, supporting programme, Innsbruck exhibition grounds. (as part of the professional activity at Südwind Tirol) https://www.suedwind.at/tirol/termine-archiv/termine-archiv/detail/oeko-fair-die-tiroler-nachhaltigkeitsmesse-1/
Memberships
German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE) (Adult Education Section; General Educational Science Section, Commission for Educational Anthropology)
Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE)
Austrian Society for Political Science (ÖGPW)
Interest Group for Political Education (IGPB)
Academic self-administration
- since 16.3.2023: Module coordinator, compulsory module 11: Critical Political Education, Bachelor's degree programme in Educational Sciences 2023, Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck (together with Daniel Burghardt)
- 20.11.2019 - 15.03.2023: Speaker of the Mittelbau of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck
- 2022: Habilitation committee Mag. Mag. dr. phil. Gianluca CREPALDI (member, secretary).
- 2021: Appointment committee for the professorship "Educational Science with a focus on Historical-Pedagogical Anthropology", Department of Educational Science (substitute member).
Activity as reviewer
- 2022: Transfer. Research <=> School