Dr.in Reingard Spannring

Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52 a, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room 08J010 (8th floor)
0043-512-507/40037
reingard.spannring@uibk.ac.at

Spannring
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Profile

Main areas of work

Youth research, environmental education research, critical animal studies

Current work

Vita

Funktion
Studied sociology at the University of Vienna (Mag., Dr.) and University of Sussex (M.A. in Social and Political Thought)
Employee at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Head of the Austrian Institute for Youth Research, Vienna
since 2006Since 2006 research assistant at the Department of Educational Science, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck

Research

Funktion
2019-2022 Surviving the Anthropocene, an eco-philosophical and eco-pedagogical joint project with Slovenian partners, funded by the ARRS (Slovenian Research Funding Agency) and the FWF (Austrian Research Funding Agency)2019-2022 Surviving the Anthropocene, an eco-philosophical and eco-pedagogical joint project with Slovenian partners, funded by the ARRS (Slovenian Research Funding Agency) and the FWF (Austrian Research Funding Agency)
2015 - 2016 Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy: Curriculum Development, funded by the Animal and Society Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA2015 - 2016 Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy: Curriculum Development, funded by the Animal and Society Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2009 - 2011 "M.A. EYS: Curriculum Development for the M.A. in European Youth Studies" (http://www.youthstudies.eu), funded under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus;2009 - 2011 "M.A. EYS: Curriculum Development for the M.A. in European Youth Studies" (http://www.youthstudies.eu), funded under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus;
2008 - 2009 "IGLOO: Intergenerational Learning in Organisations" (http://www.iglooproject.eu), funded under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig2008 - 2009 "IGLOO: Intergenerational Learning in Organisations" (http://www.iglooproject.eu), funded under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme Grundtvig
2006 - 2009 "UP2YOUTH: Youth - actor of social change" (http://www.up2youth.org), funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme2006 - 2009 "UP2YOUTH: Youth - actor of social change" (http://www.up2youth.org), funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme
2002 - 2005 "EUYOUPART: The Political Participation of Young People in Europe. Development of Indicators" (http://www.sora.at/themen/politische-kultur/euyoupart-2003-2005.html), funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme2002 - 2005 "EUYOUPART: The Political Participation of Young People in Europe. Development of Indicators" (http://www.sora.at/themen/politische-kultur/euyoupart-2003-2005.html), funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme
2001 - 2004 "Youth and European Identity" (http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/youth/index.html), funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme2001 - 2004 "Youth and European Identity" (http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/youth/index.html), funded under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme

Publications

Articles (since 2015)

  • Spannring, R., & Waechter, N. (2024). Youth and climate crisis: participation and learning in complex, adaptive systems. Journal for Educational Research, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s35834-024-00427-8
  • Spannring, Reingard (2023): Critical animal pedagogy: liberating the nonhuman learner? On Education. Journal for Research and Debate 6/16, No. 8, https://doi.org/10.17899/on_ed.2023.16.8
  • Hawke, S.; Spannring, R. (2022) EDITORIAL: Critical inter-disciplinary and inter-species approaches to water sustainability and climate change issues. Visions for Sustainability, No 18, Dec 21 2022, pp. 3-10. ISSN 2384-8677 http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions
  • Spannring, R. & Hawke, S. (2021) Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex adaptive systems. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1929886
  • Kopnina, H.; Spannring, R.; Hawke, S.; Robertson, C.D.; Thomasberger, A.; Maloney, M.; Morini, M.; Lynn, W.; Muhammad, N.Z.; Santiago-Ávila, N.Z.; Begovic, H.; Baranowski, M. (2021) Ecodemocracy in Practice: Exploration of Debates on Limits and Possibilities of Addressing Environmental Challenges within Democratic Systems, Visions for Sustainability, 2021:15, https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8677/5832
  • Russell, C. & Spannring, R. (2019) Editorial: So what for other animals? Environmental education after the animal turn. Environmental Education Research 25:8, 1137-1142, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1687639
  • Spannring, R. (2019) Ecological Citizenship Education and the Consumption of Animal Subjectivity. Education Sciences, 2019, 9, 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9010041
  • Spannring, R.; Grusovnik, T. (2018): Leaving the Meatrix? Transformative learning and denialism in the case of meat consumption. In: Environmental Education Research. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2018.1455076
  • Spannring, R. (2017): Ecocentrism: Playing beyond boundaries. In: The Ecological Citizen. 1/Supplement A, pp. 21 - 24.
  • Spannring, R. (2017): Animals in environmental education research. In: Environmental Education Research 23/1, pp 63 - 74.
  • Spannring, R. (2015) I and Animal Thou: Perspectives for the Educational Sciences. In: Society and Animals 23, pp 613-629.

Books (since 2015)

  • Spannring, R.; Smidt, W.; Unterrainer, C. (2022) Institutions and organisations as learning environments for participation and democracy? Opportunities, challenges, obstacles. Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-031-17948-8.
  • Grusovnik, T., Spannring, R.; Lykke Syse, K. (2020) Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting our Gaze. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington.
  • Kompatscher, G.; Spannring, R.; Schachinger, K. (Eds.) (2021 2nd ed.): Human-Animal Studies. An introduction for students and teachers. Münster - New York - Munich - Berlin: Waxmann. ISBN 978-3-825-24759-1.
  • Kompatscher, G.; Spannring, R.; Schachinger, K. (Eds.) (2017): Human-Animal Studies. An introduction for students and teachers. Münster - New York - Munich - Berlin: Waxmann. [Human-Animal Studies. An Introduction for Students and Teachers/Lecturers], 2nd edition 2021
  • Spannring, R., Heuberger, R., Kompatscher, G.; Oberprantacher, A.; Schachinger, K.; Boucabeille, A. (Eds.) (2015) Animals - Texts - Transformations. Critical perspectives on human-animal studies. Transcript. [Animals - Texts - Transformations. Critical Perspectives of The Human-Animal Studies]
  • Spannring, R., Schachinger, K., Kompatscher, G., Boucabeille, A. (Eds.) (2015) Disziplinierte Tiere?: Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies für die wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, Transcript, [Disciplined Animals? Perspectives of the Human-Animal Studies for the Scientific Disciplines]

Book chapter (since 2015)

  • Spannring, R.; Kompatscher, G.; Gallenberger, D. (2024) Other species also bathe. Riverine landscapes as multispecies communities. in Antenhofer, Ch.; Leitner, U.; Schnegg, K. (Eds.) Baden. A historical-topographical search for traces. Innsbruck University Press. Forthcoming
  • Grušovnik, T.; Spannring, R.; Vičar, B. (2023) Kritična animalistična pedagogika - medpresečno izobraževanje za etiko živali, in Jerše, S.; Gaber, M. (Eds.). Človek, žival : poglavja o njunih soočanjih. Ljubljana: University Press, pp. 318-324, 389. ISBN 978-961-297-161-8.
  • Spannring R.; Grušovnik T. (2023) On the deconstruction of educational spaces through Critical Animal Pedagogy. Anti-speciesism and love of animals? in Giehl, M.; Mattig, R. (Eds.): Bildung als (De-)Zentrierung - (De-)Zentrierung der Bildung. Weinheim/Munich: Beltz Juventa, pp. 97-114, ISBN 978-3-7799-7068-2
  • Hawke, S.; Spannring. R. (2022) Embodying the Earth: Environmental Pedagogy and Re-wilding Human Consciousness, in Paulsen, M., Jagodzinski, J.; Hawke, S. (eds.) Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-Wilding Education for a New Earth. Palgrave, pp 197-216, ISBN 978-3-030-90979-6.
  • Spannring, R.; Unterrainer, Christine; Smidt, W. (2022): Participation in organisations and institutions across the life course. In: Spannring, R.; Smidt, W.; Unterrainer, C.: Institutions and organisations as learning environments for participation and democracy? Opportunities, challenges, obstacles. Cham: Springer International Publishing, ISBN 978-3-031-17948-8, pp. 1 - 13.
  • Spannring, R.; De Giorgio-Schoorl, J. (2021) The horse in the room: The denial of animal subjectivity and agency in social science research on human-horse relationships. In: Grusovnik, T., Spannring, R.; Lykka Syse, K. (2020) Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting our Gaze. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington, pp. 187-200. ISBN 978-1-7936-1046-1
  • Spannring, R. (2020) Youth in the Anthropocene. Questions of intergenerational justice and learning in a more-than-human world. In: Winter, R. & Knapp, G. (eds.) Globalisation and Youth: Developments, Analyses and Perspectives. Springer VS, pp. 113-134. ISBN 978-3-030-65176-3
  • Spannring, R. (2018) Mutual becomings? In search of an ethical pedagogic space in human-horse relationships. In: Lloro-Bidart T.; Banschbach, V. (Eds.) Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy. Palgrave, pp. 79-94, ISBN 978-3-319-98478-0
  • Spannring, R. (2018): The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene. In: Grušovnik, T.; Mendieta, E.; Skof, L. (Eds.): Borders and Debordering. Topologies, Practices, Hospitableness. Lanham, Louisville, et al: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 115 - 132, ISBN 978-1-498-57130-2.
  • Spannring, R. (2018): With the animals into an ecologically sustainable future? In: Strunz, I.; Waschulewski, U. (Eds.): Animal-assisted pedagogy. Cornerstones of didactic action. A theory-based and practice-orientated workbook. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, ISBN 978-3-834-01812-0, pp. 210 - 225.
  • Spannring, R. (2017): Martin Buber's I and Thou in the animal-human relationship - pedagogical considerations. In: Krobath, Th.; Shakri, A.; Stöger, P. (Eds.): Buber begegnen - Interdisziplinare Zugange zu Martin Bubers Dialogphilosophie. Wuppertal: Arco (= Arco Wissenschaft, 28), ISBN 978-3-938-37567-9, pp. 281 - 299
  • Spannring, R., Schachinger, K., Kompatscher, G., Boucabeille, A. (2015) Disciplined animals? In: Spannring, R., Schachinger, K., Kompatscher, G., Boucabeille, A. (Eds.) (2015) Disziplinierte Tiere?: Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies für die wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, Transcript Verlag, pp 13-28 [chapter title in English: Disciplined Animals?]
  • Spannring, R. (2015) Bildungswissenschaft: Auf dem Weg zu einer posthumanistischen Pädagogik? In: Spannring, R., Schachinger, K., Kompatscher, G., Boucabeille, A. (Eds.) (2015) Disziplinierte Tiere?: Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies für die wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, Transcript Verlag, pp 29-52 [chapter title in English: Educational Science: On the Way to Posthumanist Pedagogy?]

Online publications

Spannring, R.; Hawke, S. (2022) AquaMOOC: Participatory Learning with Water: https://imoox.at/mooc/local/landingpage/course.php?shortname=AquaMOOC&lang=en

Memberships

  • ÖFEB
  • European Educational Research Association

Activity as reviewer

  • Environmental Education Research
  • sustainability
  • Education Sciences
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